“@AdamZagoria: 2012 G Carlos Morris is now being courted by St. John’s, Xavier, Tulane & South Carolina, Country Day coach Rex Morgan told @SNYtv”
Morgan was on the Jacksonville team that made it to the NCAA finals, losing to UCLA (I'm sure crgreen will write a short post about that game and UCLA's third-string center). Cool story/update here:
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7744074/how-jacksonville-earned-credit-card-paul-hemphill
Naw. Sufficient to say, after Jacksonville dominated to start the game with an apparently unstoppable Artis Glmore, Sidney Wicks begged Wooden to let him switch to guarding center, intead of PF Pembrooke Burrows. Sid blocked four of Gilmore's next 6 shots (1 was a goal tend, but still an intimidating play) and Artis was a non-factor the rest of the way as UCLA cruised to an 80-69 win and Title #6. Sid was MVP with 17 pts & 18 rebs, center Steve Patterson easily won the matchup with PF Burrows, posting 17/11, and Curtis Rowe took the SF battle with 19/8. Tho Morgan had 10 pts & 11 assists, he was still outplayed by UCLA's John Vallely, who got 15pts 7 rebs and 5 assists - Morgan fouled out trying to defend him.
Jacksonville was SUPPOSED to have dominated on the boards with their front line of 7'2 Gilmore, 7'0 Burrows, 6'10 McIntyre, and 6'6 PG Morgan, but UCLA won that battle 50-38 with the 6'9 Patterson, 6'8 Wicks, 6'6 Rowe, and 6'3 Vallely.
Oh well, sure - what the heck....3rd string center Jon Chapman got in for 2 minutes of garbage time, missed his only shot, but did hit the stat sheet with one rebound!