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[QUOTE="dollarbill44, post: 4169865, member: 686"]
Thanks! I love stories like this. A 9.7 hundred is really fast!
My HS was actually a fairly average sized school in northern VA (very much ACC territory- blech and the Ewing-era Georgetown - full-on vomit) in the 1980s. In fact, we were quite a bit smaller than two of our rivals, but we competed with mixed success. 
The funny thing is, hockey was my first love when I lived in CNY before we moved to VA in '77. I didn't really follow basketball. I remember being really disappointed and confused that we had a hockey game cancelled for the SU final four game. I couldn't understand how that was more important than a peewee game. I don't think I had ever dribbled a basketball until 5th grade. I had to work really hard to get the hang of it. Two things I was always good at was defense and passing, so I could at least contribute while I got my dribbling and shooting up to speed. I was quick, so I got a lot of steals, but I remember missing so many layups my first season. So many. But, I loved to run the fast break. Which was how I came to love SU basketball. The SU I grew up with got out and ran every time they could. The first SU game I saw on TV was a last minute victory at St. John's sealed by a Louis Orr layup. I used to sneak-watch the Big East game of the week with the 9 o'clock start time on Monday nights on Channel 5 in DC (pre-Fox, when it was a local independent channel) in the very early days of the Big East. It seemed every week was an epic battle. I would listen to the BET on the a.m. radio because only the ACCT games were on tv. It pains me to see where the program is right now.
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