March 21 -- your northern California high school basketball report

Carl Steward has posted a commentary about the Nor Cal championship games this past weekend. He also makes a point that the teams were heavily skewed with Bay Area schools (which seems to be an annual occurrence) and wonders why the event isn't held somewhere around here.

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Eric Sondheimer looks at the disparity of representation between public and private schools in the upcoming state basketball championship games.

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Can't remember if we posted this from Alex Pavlovic/Mercury News:

Sohn Nijor of Leigh and Stephen Anderson of Piedmont Hills shared the MVP award for the boys in the Mount Hamilton Division. Muktar Abdi of Willow Glen was the Senior of the Year, Trevor Priest of Santa Teresa was the Junior of the Year and Nate Vieira of Oak Grove was the Sophomore of the Year.

The members of the all-league first team were Deven Patterson and Trevor Peterson of Leigh, Justin Dueck of Leland, Denzal Copeland and Spencer Koopmans of Santa Teresa and Martin Greer and Jalen Robertson of Piedmont Hills.

Westmont had a pair of players named to the all-league second team in junior Nick Wahl and senior Alex Kamara. The rest of the second team included Donald Rodriguez and Vieira of Oak Grove, Nedim Mekanic of Willow Glen, P.J. Nelson of Piedmont Hills and Dylan Bell of Leland.

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Former San Jose Stater and Newark Memorial High star Marquin Chandler has signed with Benfica, a club in Portugal.

From one note by Luis Filipe Cristovao on March 16:

Sport Lisboa Benfica finally found a substitute to Mike Williams. Its Marquin Chandler (202-F-82, college: San Jose St.), a 28 years old Power Forward, with 2.02m.

Chandler finished college in San Jose St. and made his pro rookie year in Philippines. Despite a try in Belgium and a year in USA, Marquin Chandler stayed almost all his career in Asia, playing in countries like Singapore, Philippines, South Korea and Bahrein, where he spent his last months, in Al Ahli Manama.

 Here's a link to his signing.

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Let's close with this although the subject is college hoops:

From Dave Telep -- All-time great line by [Notre Dame head coach] Mike Brey before first game at Delaware. DT to MB: "Coach, who is your best recruit this year?" MB: "Graduation."

Supply your own rimshot.