4-12-05 Looking at the so-called candidates for the University of Virginia basketball opening, none of the names mentioned seem very exciting. How about Steve Smith, the head basketball coach at Oak Hill Academy in southern Virginia? He not only deals with high school blue-chippers each day, but he is on-campus with them each day: Oak [...]
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Editorial: Kevin Durant of Oak Hill Academy
4-5-05 The nation’s top boy’s high school basketball program is Oak Hill Academy in Mouth-Of-Wilson, Virginia, which is located west of Martinsville, Virginia, just north of the North Carolina border, in southwestern Virginia. “USA Today” has picked Oak Hill Academy as the nation’s top boy’s basketball team at the end of each of the last [...]
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1-16-05 On a sunny, 41-degree afternoon on Saturday, January 15, 2005, I drove to Rocky Mount, Virginia, to see the 4-game “Member One Time Technologies 2nd-Annual Hoops Classic,” a basketball extravaganza held at the beautiful, refurbished ‘Samuel M. Hawkins Central Gym’ at Franklin County High School. It has new, dark red seats, a dark red [...]
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