As I said..............................many others. I do believe you meant John Bagley.
A lot of us old Boneyarders do remember when Connecticut basketball meant The Cross, Hillhouse, and at times Hartford Public. 66-67 Hartford Public had, reportedly the best team in the State. 6-8 Bob Nash, Steve Waterman, and several others, who thorough the passing of time I have forgotten their names. They played The Cross for the State title, and the Cross won. Husky South is right, for many years, Connecticut high schools dominated the old New England championships. Bear with me here, but it was the winner and runnerup of the State titles that went to the New Englands, and more often than not, the 2 Connecticut teams would end up playing for the New England Championships. As to his remark that Hillhouse dominated......................Well that might be a little bit of a stretch. Hillhouse did have some great talent. 2 in particular, Walt Esdaile, and Billy Gray. Esdaile was a 6-5 monster, for his time. He ended up at Cornell. O/T here, but is the Connecticut NAACP leader Scott X Esdaile related to Walt? No matter. Billy Gray was another Hillhouse star of the late 60's, early 70's. 6-4, a skywalker, shot blocker. Here is one kid that did end up at Uconn, however he did not last, flunking out, and ending up in the Navy. Yes, boneyarders, especially you youngsters, the 60's, 70's, and early 80's saw some great talent come through Connecticut schools, with Hillhouse, Wilbur Cross, Lee High, Bridgeport Central, Public, etc. Another quickie, I believe it was 69-70 Bridgeport Central was a power, but was defeated by Hillhouse, that Bridgeport Central team was coached by former Uconn guard Tom Penders, who went on to coach at several colleges, most notably Columbia, Tufts, Texas, among others.
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