Diamonds in the rough Wisconsin enjoying a golden age of high school hoops. This is the latest entry in our new longform series, First and Long, which will debut the first of every month and explore stories off the beaten path. I was stopped tentatively and precariously, with one foot on the brake pedal and the other pressed onto the gas to give the car enough juice to keep it from stalling again, which would be the third time in the last half mile, as the muffler belched out its relentless guttural rattling and the RPM needle plunged to a hair lengths prayer above zero, quivering between sort of life and soon to be death. I was stopped, for the moment on purpose, with a decision to make. Faced with a pair of nearly identical blue I 9. I could go left, east to Milwaukee, and try to drive this enfeebled and eroding automobile to the temporary sanctuary of a mechanics garage. 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WTNHWe are counting down to this Saturdays four big high school football championship games. The best game of the day co. Roosevelt High School RHS is a public secondary school located in the Roosevelt neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Opened 95 years ago in 1922 and part of the. It is the year 2017 of Roger Federer, and He is about to play in the Wimbledon final for the 11th time, and He has yet to drop a set. The seventime champ cut down. Glendora-boys-hoop.jpg' alt='Rough High School Basketball Game' title='Rough High School Basketball Game' />Or, I could go right, west toward Madison, where my assignment lay, daring the power to cut out, which could send me into a horrible, flaming wreck or worse, stranded in the boonies, unable to report my story, which is actually not about the travails of an old Toyota with two hundred and plenty thousand miles on it. Its a story about high school hoops specifically, how the humble state of Wisconsin, known more for chunks of cheese than dunks and threes, had suddenly become a hotbed for some of the best prep basketball players in the country. My mission was to travel to the capital and cover the state tournament to find out what was so great about the teenage roundballers of Americas Dairyland and why Wisconsin, seemingly overnight, had turned into this premier talent factory, producing top national recruits and prospective NBA players. At the very least, I hoped to see several fundamentally sound two handed bounce passes and harvest enough material to objectively prove we were doing better than Michigan. SHS_vs_Aledo_1-20-17_%2812_of_50%29.jpg' alt='Rough High School Basketball Game' title='Rough High School Basketball Game' />The car was pointed west and chugging along at an unobjectionable speed as long as I didnt need to brake for the next 7. Id soon or someday reach Madison. Download Microsoft Dynamics Nav 2009 R2 Manual Free. Armed with the mechanical knowhow to fix any vehicular problem that arose by calling AAA and the basketball background of having one season led my high school team in free throw shooting 8. I felt fully qualified to crash the party at the state tournament and explore what in the name of Diamond Stone was going on with Wisconsin high school hoops. Eventually, miraculously, thanks to little traffic and no stops, I made it to Madison without issue. Taking the exit toward the state capitol, I shifted into neutral and glided around the 2. East Washington Avenue, the main thoroughfare into the city. Delicately, I eased the old girl across the University of Wisconsin campus, teeming on a sunny Saturday in late March, and succeeded in parking her outside the Kohl Center, home of the Badgers and on this weekend the site of the 1. Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Associations boys basketball championship. Inside, the best teams from a state that suddenly seemed as talent rich as any in the country prepared for title games. Thats what I had come to see two of the nations top 1. Division 1 team that was back in the state finals despite having just graduated six players onto NCAA teams the excitement and appreciation of fans who were watching the golden age of Wisconsin high school hoops. Across the street from the gleaming Kohl Center, hungover bros balling on the outdoor courts had not gotten the memo about the states basketball renaissance. Clad in jeans and air balling fadeaways, they looked closer to throwing up sick from last nights drinks than throwing down any sick dunks. But good for those dudes getting fresh air I wasnt there to cover them anyway. I collected my press credentials and walked into the arena, where the days first championship, the Division 5 game between Young Coggs Prep and Hillsboro, was just starting. I admired the scene for a bit Young Coggs would win 5. Christian school located in one of Milwaukees toughest neighborhoods then walked back to the media work area. I passed a security guard in the tunnel and asked him how he was doing. Living the dream, he replied sarcastically. Just then, a gigantic man child ambled out of the locker room, laughing loudly flanked by boisterous teammates. It was Diamond Stone, perhaps the best high school player the state has ever produced and a symbol of the ascendancy of Wisconsin basketball. He was truly was living the dream. Id been chronicling Stone and Dominican High Schools quest for a fourth straight state championship since the first round of the Division 4 playoffs in early March. A hoops powerhouse for decades, the Catholic school in 2. Stone enrolled. Massive and massively skilled, he led the Knights to three state titles in his first three years, garnering conference, area and state honors and attracting recruiting interest from nearly every university in the country. He won gold for Team USA, dominated the AAU circuit and became one of the most highly coveted Class of 2. Wisconsin, Oklahoma State, Connecticut and Maryland the four lucky finalists still vying to sign him when the state tournament began. As a 6 foot 1. 0, 2. Stone was trying to help Dominican become just the second program in Wisconsin basketball history to win four consecutive titles. On March 6, I dropped in on Dominicans first postseason game, a regional semifinal matchup at home against Martin Luther. Upon entering the gym, I was hit with a wave of not so warm nostalgia. I had a personal history with the court. A decade before, Id taken the same floor in my high school teams blowout loss to Dominican, playing an unceremonious bit of garbage time. Our varsity squad then had one pair of size 4. It was my turn when we played Dominican and I was put into the game late to run the offense and break the Knights press, which I attempted to do one handed while holding up the back of my shorts with the other. Suddenly I felt a sympathetic kinship with the Martin Luther Spartans. Latest from FOX Sports WisconsinShaking the bad memories, I watched the Dominican players warming up. The baby faced Stone, easy to spot, had a white headband and was the only player not wearing a warm up over his uniform. But he did not emit the aura of a superstar too big for all of this affable and open eyed, he high fived teammates nonstop and waited his turn for a ball during shootaround no personal rebounder shagging his misses. After warmups, a Dominican freshman sang the national anthem with gusto and the Knights dance team took the court with. The starting lineup was announced and Stones name called last surprisingly, it wasnt accompanied by any louder or more enthusiastic applause than anyone elses. To his home fans, perhaps, he was not necessarily larger than life. On the court, it was another story. The games first possession Stone drilled an elbow jumper. At the other end, a 5 1. Martin Luther drove right at him for some reason and gave a well intentioned pump fake Stone did not bite, easily swatting the shot out of bounds without leaving his feet. Martin Luther inbounded with the Knights dance team chanting De fense, De fense, take that ball away and, as though the cheer reminded him it really was just that easy when youre Diamond Stone, he ripped the rock away from a Spartan player. On his second offensive touch he swished an 1.