MONTROSE CHRISTIAN
vs.
OAK HILL ACADEMY
GREATEST HS. GAME - TALENT EVER?
ALL-MET ELITE
MONTROSE CHRISTIAN HS.
ROCKVILLE MD.
Courtesy of
ESPN 980
ANDY POLLIN
One of my favorite
lists from “The Great Book of Washington, D.C. Sports Lists”, which I
co-authored with Len Shapiro is, “Tale of the Tape: The Two Greatest High
School Basketball Games in Area History.” It compares DeMatha’s 46-43
upset of Power Memorial in 1965 versus Montrose Christian’s 74-72 win over Oak
Hill in 2006. I wrote that comparison in 2008 when many of the
participants in the Montrose game were still in college. I was at that
game with my son and we’ve often talked over the years about how many great
players we saw on the court that night.
Eight years later,
with every player on the rosters having completed their college eligibility, I
thought it would be fun to find out what became of those players. It’s
remarkable how much talent was on the floor of Coolidge High School that March
night in 2006. Between the two teams, there were five first-round
NBA picks, including two number two’s overall. Eighteen of the players
went on to play at Division I schools, most ending up as starters. And
many of them went on to play professionally somewhere.
The game itself was a
classic, with Montrose beating Oak Hill at the buzzer on a shot by Adrian
Bowie. It ended Oak Hill’s 56-game win streak. But that’s the
beginning of this story, not the end. Here is what became of the rosters
of the two teams in the years that followed.
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