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Message: [QUOTE="Dokey, post: 3164817, member: 9636"] Here in Colorado, where Naismith moved the year or so after inventing basketball, small high schools won or played for national championships when enrollment wasn't an issue. Joes, Colorado, finished third in the nation playing schools with student bodies in the thousands. Joes High School had a couple of dozen students but it had six boys who played basketball together from six on, shooting baskets against barns, playing high school ball in gyms so low that they had to shoot over rafters on jump shots. Their "coach" had never seen a basketball game. They couldn't play other sports, not having enough for baseball or even 8 man football. So, practicing year round, just for fun, they turned the basketball world on its ear in Chicago, prompting Grantland Rice's "Where the hell is Joes?" column. Colorado towns with four times their enrollment, still very small, actually won it all, but tiny Joes caught the imagination of the country. They had a pretty good girls team as well. [/QUOTE]