Mr. Basketball in the state of Wisconsin announced tonight

[Eye]

Having watched four of these guys this year in person this year (all but Fischer and Fuller), here'd have been my vote ...

1. Thomas
2. Wilson
3. Fischer (no problem with any of the 1st three winning it)
4. Burton
5. Koenig
6. Fuller

BTW, Koenig was suspended for the first two games of the season.

[Litehouse]

Anyone see the alley-oop to Wilson near the end of the Dominican championship game?  Wow, the kid has some serious athleticism.

[4everwarriors]

How 'bout Stone's spin move and dunk when he was doubled on the right block vs. Cuba City?

[Eye]

Wilson went from two steps behind his defender to two steps ahead of his defender in about a 40-foot span on a fast break yesterday. Holy quickness.

[muwarrior69]

We'll need it, we looked awfully slow against Rutgers and St. Johns.

[Eye]

Not sure if this is the exact perfect right spot for this, but wanted to share a brief story from yesterday to back Chico's provincialism idea ...

Kid I coached in basketball over 10 years ago when he was in 8th grade who's now a teacher and a decent-sized school in Western Wisconsin posts on Facebook that he thinks it's awful that Auburndale has to play Dominican in the D4 state title game; thinks it's too big an advantage when they're drawing from an area of 600 K and Auburndale is drawing from an area of about 600. Certainly a fair and arguable point. I respond that I think Auburndale also has a nice built-in advantage over a school like Dominican; they can put in their varsity system with their grade-school kids and work the same system with the same kids for nearly 10 years. He responds that that can't be the case because Auburndale shot 64 percent in the second half and still lost by double digits. I had the game on my second TV while I was watching MU yesterday and didn't think there was anyway they shot that in the second half. Looked at the box and they shot 33 percent in the 2nd half. At this point I'm going to let it go, but I can't. So I respond that the box on the WI2A site has them shooting 33 percent in the second half. He responds that they shot 64 percent until the midpoint of the 4th quarter before starting to chuck up a lot of bad shots. I do that math and it's possible, so I respond as such. I'm going to then suggest that they maybe need to play at a faster pace to get more shots if they're down 6 at the half, but at this point, I've been de-friended (oh well).

He's a kid who went to a D2 school and now teaches at a D2 school. IMHO this would be somewhere between worse and much worse at a smaller school (it definitely is now that I think about it, the former superintendent at the D4 school where I coach baseball is the one who spearheaded the move to 5 divisions).

Summary IMO - Has a built-in anti-private school bias at the HS and college level.

If Koenig doesn't go to Wisconsin-Madison, he's got no shot at the award this year. If Thomas goes to Wisconsin-Madison, he wins it. If Wilson goes to Wisconsin-Madison, he might be forgiven enough to win it. But being none of the top 3 is going to Wisconsin-Madison this year, the best player on the best team wins it.