These days, Wades basketball life is pretty much limited to running the Mayors Holiday Tournament every Christmastime. Just how he did it was the subject of speculation and grumbling among rivals. $150 He attended North Carolina State University. . When you walked into Dunbars gym during that era, it would be like a hip-hop concert today. Camden was the No. The Poets circa 1994 are playing patty-cake with a noticeably inferior Douglas team. Show your love for Baltimore by powering the stories that illuminate what makes Baltimore unique, and helping to keep access free for neighbors who need it. He coached against Alonzo Mourning and Len Bias when they were in high school. Post a Video. Neither one matters. They were one of a kind. In short, Bob Wade used his beloved bricks to help build what many people consider to be the best-ever high school basketball team. trademarks of Slam Media Inc. All rights reserved. Strong D. A few set plays. All the schools other championship teams are acknowledged with beach blanket-size banners at one end of the gym. A laundry hamper inside the room is filled with bricks rather than the customary socks, jocks and t-shirts. As an independent publication, we rely on donations to fund our journalism The 12th-overall pick in the 87 draft, his amazing career stretched 14 seasons. Promoters and the mayor and the governor all wanted to have it. In a span of five seasons, they went 132-10 with 5 MDMSA Championships to their credit. Duren was selected by the Utah Jazz with the 19th pick in the 1980 NBA Draft. As a local sports writer said,You needed two balls out there for all the kinds of talent they had.. Inside Paul Laurence Dunbar High Schools windowless gymnasium, the air is thick with humidityand history. Too young, according to Reggie Williams, to be walking around without a whistle on his neck. The football season would end Friday, basketball season would begin Saturday at 7 am sharp. He also played in Italy for Libertas Livorno and in the USBL (Palm Beach Stingrays) and WBL (Las Vegas Silver Streaks). Reggie Lewis, who would become Northeastern Universitys fourth-leading career scorer with 2,709 points and an NBA All-Star, couldnt crack Dunbars starting five. We are the Poets, the fighting mighty Poets! Our Dunbar team, they were the best. As a three-year starter, he finished top 10 in at least six all-time statistical categories, including points scored, assists, and games played. He began his collegiate career at Georgetown University, playing there from 1981-83 before transferring to University of Nevada-Las Vegas (UNLV) in 1984. Its not that way now. Reggie Lewis, then a shy, skinny kid, couldnt crack the starting lineup. It got me more excited. Singletary was a first-team All-Met selection in 1996. That was a unique time.. In the 1979-1980 season, they were joined by three guys from the Madison Recreation Center in East Baltimore: James "Pop" Tubman, Paul Edwards (Daryle's brother) and Marc Wilson. When you experience winning, when you are part of a dynasty, you want that same level of success in everything that you do. You might expect a high school named after one of Americas first celebrated black writers to have a helluva literary magazine, consistently cranking out all-star sonneteers and blue-chip wordsmiths. Tim Dawson, now an assistant school principal in Miami, calls whenever he visits relatives in Baltimore. It didnt matter. Pity, because Wade played much more than a supporting role as drill instructor during the golden years. To watch them move on the court, it was like watching a symphony, says Derrick Jones, an 82 Dunbar grad and lifelong Poets fan. Maybe Michael Jordans wife will give birth to quintuplets. He also played in Italy for Libertas Livorno and in the USBL (Palm Beach Stingrays) and WBL (Las Vegas Silver Streaks). Dawson played center at 6-5, but he was a leaper and formidable shot blocker. His sophomore year, he was 11. in the country in scoring with 22.3 points per game and first-team all-conference. In Wade, he found a coach who both believed in him and worked him ruthlessly. Donation amount The visitors section has vacant seats and a depressing air about it; kind of like a Mexican restaurant with a reputation for food poisoning. Staff Sergeant Darryl Wood, who played firefly at Virginia State before enlisting in the Marines, was captain of the 1982 Dunbar team. From the poem Emancipation Hes the fourth player to score 1000 points and grab 1000 rebounds in school history. Dawson thanked the coach in his Ph.D. dissertation, and keeps a picture of him and his Dunbar teammates on his desk at South Hagerstown High School, where hes principal. Matthews was an All-Met selection and fourth-team All-American his senior year in 1977. If Little Sisters of the Poor showed up, they got beat.. The team is punch-drunk from injuries. He and his classmate John Duren took Dunbar to the #1 ranking in the country in 1976. He then transferred to Boston College. Coach Cyrus Jones played for outstanding Dunbar teams in the early 90s, when recollections of Muggsy and the Reggies were riper. 22). We've recently sent you an authentication link. In 2004, he led his Wolverines to the NIT championship. It is a lifelong privilege, and Bob Wade exercises his right regularly. AlumniClass.com is not affiliated with and is independent of any school, school district, alumni association or any other sites. They may have been a little ahead of their time, whether they were doing it on purpose or by mistake, says The Baltimore Suns Davis. Tim Dawson, Keith James, and Mike Brown went on to star at the University of Miami, UNLV, and Syracuse University, respectively. 1 in the preseason and Dunbar No. While the loss was the last the Poets suffered for two-plus seasons, Calvert Hall (which competes in the Catholic League) fell in its season-ending tournament, held well after Dunbars season had concluded. It was over in the blink of an eye, a cold-blooded assassination that captured the nations attention. The team does penalty drills together. Darryl Wood, who went on to play for Virginia State and serve 23 years in the Marine Corps, backed up Bogues. In his seven-year NBA career, he played with the Kings, Vancouver Grizzlies and the Washington Wizards. A Catholic school, Loyola and most of its studentbody migrated from inner-city Baltimore to neighboring Towson in1941, taking its predominantly white student body away from the perilsof the city. Other In 2004, he led his Wolverines to the NIT championship. Other The following are the individual game scoring records during the Ohio High School Athletic Association state boys basketball tournaments (minimum 30 points scored). He also played on the V.I. Dunbar High School Mighty Men. The trio ultimately led the Poets to being crowned national champions. HOME 2-4 AWAY 2-11 NEUTRAL 1-0. He played three years with the Jazz (1980-82) and one year with the Indiana Pacers in 1982-83. Hes the fourth player to score 1000 points and grab 1000 rebounds in school history. They both attended to Georgetown, where the two were first team All Big East in 1980. I dont know if we can get back to that point of where it is packed every day. Follow your favorite high school teams and players, Explore and purchase photos of your local teams, See top plays & highlights of the best high school sports, 2023 Boys Basketball District Tournaments 5A District 11. Even though a nine-point lead will balloon to 29 by the end of the game, Rays feeling pangs of nostalgia. Essentially, the city of Baltimore had been placed on the map. Then the leech sucked him dry. Outside of the small number of thoseenslaved, Baltimore was home to an extensive population of free AfricanAmericans, more than any other city in the antebellum period. Singletary was first team All-Big East Tournament in 2001 as he helped to lead the Eagles to the Big East Championship. Syl was an All-American at Dunbar High School in D.C. I think my mama had me when I was 53. Gifted and graceful high school basketball players grow up to be accountants, insurance salesmen, and Marines. It was so hot in the gym from all the fans in there, if you just got your hair done it came out wet, says Michelle Wood, a Dunbar alum who watched her future-husband Darryl on that 1981-82 team. They werent just a good team. Back then, even Wade and company didnt quite comprehend what they had. Five years later he was drafted 22nd overall by the Boston Celtics and became an all-star. After his freshman year, he transferred to Compton (CA) Community College and then to the University of California-Berkeley. The cheerleaders dont even bother making an appearance. Poets Followers spot subtle signs of erosion. Nor did he exactly welcome advice on how to do so. True, extenuating circumstances affect this particular basketball equation. They were throwin rocks and stuff at the bus.. He went to Providence College, where he set the Big East career record for rebounding average (11.67) and the school record for field goal percentage by a forward (.554). Muggsy controlled the game offensively and defensively, he says. MaxPreps is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. 2023 UIL Texas Boys State Basketball Championships 2023 Boys BB 4A Reg. When I looked in the mirror this morning, wrote Harried, fondly reminiscing about a nasty elbow taken under the boards years ago, I looked at the scar I received against Calvert Hall. These communities fell into economic and social disrepair as the economy dwindled throughout the civil rights era and many AfricanAmericans lost the relatively well-paying industrial jobs that left the city. $ Not quite. Paul Laurence Dunbar High School has a history that parallels theAfrican American experience in Baltimore since the school opened its doorsin 1918. For winning basketball. Thats cause you dont run with the bricks, man!. Practice started at 4 and wentuntil the team got things right. The Poets 6-8 forward Norman Nolan signed early to attend the University of Virginia. The 19821983 team followed with a 310 campaign and a number-one national ranking. Dunbars legacy, boosted by its 5-foot-3 basketball giant, perhaps looms a bit larger. Having a game was like having a day off of work.. And the Poets were never more fun to watch than when Bogues, Williams, Wingate and Lewis held court. He had a 272-24 career record and was named Coach of the Year by USA Today. He played for the Lancaster Lightning for the 1983-84 season. Muggsy water-bugged his way to the basket on unstoppable drives. He had the Nike endorsement, won local and national titles, collected enough trophies and plaques. 0: Brandon Hatcher Jr. PG, SG So. He won the schools first-ever Big East Tournament Championship in 1994, winning Most Outstanding Player. Your contribution is appreciated. That is a testament to how talented this team really was. While at Georgetown, he won a gold medal in the 1979 Pan American Games. He went to Providence College, where he set the Big East career record for rebounding average (11.67) and the school record for field goal percentage by a forward (.554). Professionally, he played for the Bullets, Chicago Bulls, San Antonio Spurs and Dallas Mavericks. Thats a joke, of course. 1 in the country. Paying the transaction fee is not required, but it directs more money in support of our mission. He then played for Snaidero Udine (Italy) and in the CBA with the Idaho Stampede and Dakota Wizards. What Kicks to Cop this Weekend (7/22 & 7/23). Over his four-year career, he played for the Bobcats and New Jersey (now Brooklyn) Nets. At the end of the half, man, he was so mad he grabbed me by my shorts, in front of everybody, says Wingate. Mitchell, then a junior,. After those three-hour practices, we would run with bricks. San Antonio Jay, 64-57 Box Score: Fort Worth Dunbar(35-2) UNIVERSITY INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUE. Those Poets featured four players destined for successful careers in the NBA, including three taken in the first round of the 1987 draft. Coaches may stop coaching, but they never stop razzing their players. On 2/3, the Dunbar varsity basketball team lost their away non-conference game against Lely (Naples, FL) by a score of 85-48. Ghetto dumbbells. Share team highlights with fans & media. Junior. No dice. Dunbar's 1981-82 team went 28-0 and won the city's championship. He was voted Dunbars MVP. Locals oftenhad to contract their enslaved women and men out to work at hotels andshipyards to prevent financial losses. The old wooden ones, on which thousands stomped, are long gone. Seventeen conference championships between 1956 and 1988. Parkside Elementry. In 1982, Vetter was coaching Virginias Flint Hill HS when he had the simultaneous pleasure and misfortune of encountering Dunbar on an on night. Coach came back in the huddle and asked me was I okay. He attended North Carolina State University. 1: Antone Allen C. . Wade once nabbed two of his boys cutting class. 1 & 2, Oak Cliff Faith Family Academy (Dallas, TX), Young Men's Leadership Academy (Fort Worth, TX). He was a teacher, he was a coach and a brother to all those guys. It should have been held at a sausage factory. The basketball gymnasium at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School on the Eastside of Baltimore, Maryland is well-known for its storied history. In many ways, they were as big as any of the professional sports teams in the region. Time passes. Wingate insists Dunbar practices were harder than games. 1 team in the country by USA Today. Consequently, only about 200 fans are on hand. Jennings (1960-1961) (890-372 overall) - Retired, 2 - New Knoxville vs. Buckland (2-0) (12/23/1939), 147 - Centerburg vs. Bladensburg, 149-2 (11/22/1938), 9 - Hannibal River vs. McConnelsville Morgan (02/23/1974), Divisional Breakdowns - 2022-23 School Year, Enrollment & Attendance Bylaw Resource Center, Conduct/ Character/ Discipline Bylaw Resource Center, International & Exchange Student Bylaw Resource Center, Joint Advisory Committee on Sports Medicine, Most Field Goals Made, Season (minimum 300), Most Three-Point Field Goals Made, Game (minimum 11), Most Three-Point Field Goals Made, Season (minimum 90), Most Three-Point Field Goals Made, Career (minimum 235), Most Consecutive Free Throws Made, Game (minimum 15), Most Consecutive Free Throws Made (minimum 30), Most Free Throws Made, Season (minimum 200), Most Free Throws Made, Career (minimum 425), Highest Field Goal Percentage, Season (minimum 60% and 325 attempts), Highest Field Goal Percentage, Career (minimum 55% and 800 attempts), Highest Free Throw Percentage, Season (minimum 90%, 80 attempts), Highest Free Throw Percentage, Career (minimum 84% and 250 attempts), Highest Three-Point Percentage, Season (minimum 47% and 100 attempts), Highest Three-Point Percentage, Career (minimum 40% and 300 attempts), Consecutive Regular Season Wins (minimum 50), Most Points Scored, Game both teams (minimum 210), Most Points Scored, Season (minimum 2,150), Most Three-Point Field Goals Made, Game (minimum 18), Most Three-Point Field Goals Made, Season (minimum 230), Teams to Qualify for the State Tournament with Losing Records*. $ The 1982-1983 Dunbar team lost Wingate and Graham to graduation, but it was an easy call to begin the Poets ranked No. Carpentersville, Illinois . Bogues badgered point guards unmercifully. On 1/27, the Dunbar varsity basketball team won their home non-conference game against South Fort Myers (Fort Myers, FL) by a score of 58-47. Kelley has played professionally since 2007, playing in several countries, such as Croatia, Greece, Israel, Turkey, Venezuela, China, Puerto Rico and Italy. Robinson was selected as Third Team All-Big Ten from the league coaches and the media his junior and senior seasons. The basketball gymnasium at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School on the Eastside of Baltimore, Maryland is well-known for its storied history. No clowning before practicework on your skills. On 2/1, the Dunbar varsity basketball team lost their away non-conference game against Gulf Coast (Naples, FL) by a score of 73-61. He was second-team All-Met in 1999 and transferred to New Hampton Prep (New Hampton, NH) for his postgraduate year. I noticed that late in ballgames kids become winded, and, defensively, they begin to drop their arms. {"requests":{"event":"https:\/\/baltimorefishbowl.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/newspack-popups\/includes\/..\/api\/campaigns\/index.php"},"triggers":{"trackPageview":{"on":"visible","request":"event","visibilitySpec":{"selector":"#c0bb","visiblePercentageMin":50,"totalTimeMin":250,"continuousTimeMin":100},"extraUrlParams":{"popup_id":"id_159267","cid":"CLIENT_ID(newspack-cid)"}}}} Wade says success simply breeds success. 12. He went to Georgetown University, where he was first team All-Big East and Big East Player of the Year in 1980. 2016-17 Season Information. And a coach stops coaching. ESPN Documentary to Spotlight Dunbars Legendary 81-83 Basketball Team, Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Guide to Baltimore Independent Schools 2022-202, Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic. $25 Over his four-year career, he played for the Bobcats and New Jersey (now Brooklyn) Nets. No, vows Wade. Then and now, high school national championships are primarily mythological creations of the media. On 1/27, the Dunbar varsity basketball team won their home conference game against Eastern Hills (Fort Worth, TX) by a score of 52-43. He won the schools first-ever Big East Tournament Championship in 1994, winning Most Outstanding Player. There were big speakers, you had music blaringit was a big event. A shotgun marriage made in basketball hell. She said, Are you sitting down or standing up? Wade recalls. $5 ($0) A generation later,memories of both teams brilliant seasons linger. We just wanted to go out and play basketball, says Reggie Williams. To accommodate the overflow crowd, the dream matchup was held at Morgan State College. He said, Im fine, Mr. Wade. Former Dunbar basketball coach Bob Wade, who left the school in 1986 and is now superintendent of Baltimores Bureau of Recreation, calls those bricks his motivator. He used them to instill discipline: When one of his players misbehaved, the whole team ran up-and-backs before practice, bricks in hand. While some of them joined the well-known black neighborhoods of west Baltimore, others fortified the black migration into east Baltimore. I used to stop in and watch em practice, then go home and eat dinner and come back.. Similarly, Wade nipped complacency in the bud by scrawling a numberinvariably an odd one, say, 47on the locker room chalkboard before every game. Dunbars always been the family school for that part of public housing, says Wade, whos steadfastly denied wrongdoing. Wade says he beamed like a father when his players graduated and derived his greatest satisfaction from lining up scholarships for them. He and his classmate John Duren took Dunbar to the #1 ranking in the country in 1976. They worked hard.. Singletary was a first-team All-Met selection in 1996. He knows the torn fabric of urban existence. Dunbars incredible basketball success in the early 1980s matched in Charm City perhaps only by Calvert Halls success and the juxtaposition of these two schools illustrates the complex social, athletic, educational, and political contexts in which Baltimore high school basketball at the time was embedded. I said if those things dont happen, you got a problem with me.. On 1/4, the Dunbar varsity basketball team lost their away conference game against Eastern Hills (Fort Worth, TX) by a score of 50-44. He then went to the University of Pittsburgh. In 1982-83, Harried transferred to Dunbar. They were vying for the No. But Amatuccis phone never rang. Sign up for our newsletter 6' 2" 185 lbs. You couldnt press him, and you could not handle his pressure when he went after the ball. Never let it be said that Baltimore's Dunbar High, which has what's widely considered to be the best high school team in the nation, ducks the leading contenders. Ohio High School Athletic Association. Just how good were those teams? 2 team in the country on our bench, Bogues says. Maryland Public Television also ran a short piece on Danois book back in January: Baltimore Boys co-director Marquis Daisy offered this take on his latest work for ESPN in this statement from the network: Whats special about this tale is, despite the bad hand that Bogues, Williams, Wingate and Lewis were dealt, in the backdrop of a time when the place that they called home was at its most dangerous, they were able to make it out of that environment and ascend to heights that hardly anyone gave them a chance to, thanks to the people who helped steer them in the right direction. Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906). Baltimore Fishbowl reports the fun, factual and sometimes controversial scoop on local schools, real estate, money and power, culture, lifestyle, and community. Timing and egos conspired to prevent a rematch. Some became so unglued they might as well have been trying to dribble with BBQ mitts on their hands. The Poets were more fun to watch, declared Short. Dunbar's stats have been entered for the 58-47 win vs. South Fort Myers on 1/27/2023 7:30 PM. Dunbar, for example, is known for its health-related curriculum. 1 national ranking and hadnt lost a home game in some 15 years. Peebles' Beau Justice was 15-15 from the field, 7-7 from the free throw line and 3-3 from three-point range in a District Semifinal game vs. Waterford on March 10, 2015. That is to say a problem whose solutions would require a brick. They were so brutal, when the first couple of games rolled around we saw how easy it came to us. Baltimore, MD The team was an unstoppable force going a combined 60-0 during their junior and senior years. Order online with the code YOUOFA and receive 25% off. Keep your feet firm in the path to the goal
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