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Message: [QUOTE="Fairfield Fan, post: 4005215, member: 6911"] I grew up in suburban Maryland, and I knew lots about Morgan Wootten. Despite the D.C. area being a hotbed of basketball talent, with tremendous scholastic basketball factories (including Azzi Fudd's St. John's College High School), De Matha, a small Catholic school, was virtually unbeatable. De Matha was the only high school that defeated Lew Alcindor's (later Kareem Abdul Jabbar) high school team. Morgan Wootten was the high school version of Geno Auriemma. Though there were great teams around, his teams were always either the best, or right near the top. I once saw De Matha play my high school, which had a middling public school team in the early '70's. Adrian Dantley, the future NBA star, played for De Matha that game. Though he only played about a quarter of the game, scoring twenty points, his team beat ours by something like 94-26. I was in awe watching De Matha play, their precision, their defense, their seamless transition to the fast break. The only things I can compare their style of play with is possibly North Carolina under Dean Smith, and the best Connecticut teams under Coach Auriemma. As with Coach Geno, Morgan Wootten's numbers say it all. He could have picked up the phone, called any university in the country, and been given the HC job, at any time during his long career. But he remained a high school coach at that little high school. He and De Matha were truly amazing. So for Azzi to be voted that prize means a great deal. [/QUOTE]

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