Thursday, March 6, 2008

My day in Madison: State basketball

The best part of my day: getting within 12 inches of the Big Ten Championship trophy awarded to the Wisconsin basketball team last night. Of course, we were separated by thick glass and a geriatric Per-Mar security guard (is there any other kind?), but I admired it longingly as it stood front and center in the men's basketball offices at the Kohl Center.

It's a pretty impressive display, really - the new hardware flanked by all the other trophies we've racked up in the last decade. Conference championship trophies, Big Ten Tournament trophies, regional championship trophies. A video loop of recent highlights playing on a big flat screen. I'm ready to sign Will up for the program right now.

Andy and I were at the Kohl for the state boys basketball tournament, which we went to regularly in the '90s. Back then we saw B.J. LaRue and Mukwonago fall valiantly to Jose Winston and Milwaukee Vincent at the dawn of their dynasty. We saw Madison West's Reece Gaines have a horrible game in front of the home folks. The years we didn't go, we'd stay glued to the TV, watching the games and eating Girl Scout cookies.

It was time for some new memories, and we got them.

-The primary reason I wanted to go was to watch our Iola-Scandinavia Thunderbirds in a Division 3 semifinal. It wasn't pretty, but the kids gutted out a three-point win over a very capable Eau Claire Regis team. Our headliner, Mike Griffin, scored 21 in spite of a tough shooting day, but a little guy by the name of Chad Gunderson was our hero today, hitting some big 3-pointers and coming up with some key steals.

-In Saturday's final we play LaCrosse Aquinas, who looked really tough in beating favored Whitefish Bay Dominican. Aquinas just has a bunch of kids who know how to play basketball the right way and put the ball in the basket. This year's senior class in Wisconsin doesn't have many Division 1 college prospects, but Dominican's Kwamain Mitchell is one of the best, and he'll play for Rick Majerus at St. Louis.

-One of the state's other Division 1 kids, Oshkosh West's John Benkoske, overcame foul trouble to help his team beat Germantown in overtime. Benkoske is following former coach Lance Randall and former West stars Tom Levin and Andy Polka to Loyola. Andy and I left this game at halftime, the first half was notable only for the banter between the two student sections. The second half was a thriller and so was the OT. This was the second-worst decision I've made to leave a game at halftime; the worst was in 1998, when we left an Ohio State-Michigan State game at halftime, and the Spartans came back to upset the #1 Buckeyes.

-In the other game we saw, Madison Memorial beat Lake Geneva Badger. The interesting player in this one was Memorial's Jeronne Maymon, a man among boys with 28 points, 12 rebounds, eight blocks, and four assists. There has been talk about him becoming a Badger. Looking at his game, I'm not sure. He's got a nice face-up game up to about 15 feet, and is skilled, but he is still dominant because of his superior size (probably 6-6, 220) and athleticism. Don't think he could do it like that at the next level. However, the more I thought about it, the more I thought Alando Tucker was probably a similar type of player in high school, and he turned out all right.

The two things that concern me: he missed a game this year with an "academic issue," and there were too many times today when he was loafing, not playing with consistent energy. Almost like Shaq. I can't recall anyone like that coming into our program. We'll see.

The other guy from Memorial that is drawing recruiting attention is a 6-3 sophomore guard by the name of Vander Blue. In today's game Vander didn't really distinguish himself from Memorial's other guards - Maymon's older brother Devonte had a great game - but he still had 13 points, seven boards. Smooth athlete, seemed to glide a bit, and fit well with Memorial's full-court pressure defense. He'll be a good one, and let's hope that if he's good enough, he stays home.

-In the last game, I watched Wauwatosa East play Eau Claire North on television. East is the better team and won, but I was interested in seeing North's Evan Anderson, a 6-11 sophomore. Some outlets have put him as a national top 10 recruit for the class of 2010; some people who have seen him play wonder why he averaged only eight points per game this season and say he's a UW-Green Bay-type player.

Watching him tonight, I think he can definitely be a Big Ten player. Of our current and recent bigs, he reminds me most of Butch, only he doesn't have much of an offensive game more than five feet from the basket. He does run much better and more naturally than Butch, shows confidence using both hands, and has a knack for shot blocking. It's rare for a 6-11 sophomore to have a refined game, so you're really just projecting future development, and from my admittedly limited exposure to the kid's game, there doesn't seem to be any reason not to recruit him.

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I've heard a lot of people say that Blue may actually be the better prospect on Memorial.

The Badgers could quickly become all-name with Diamond and Vander.

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