Gear up for winter

GLH Editor makes predictions on opening night eve

By Jared Field

3 December 2007

greatlakeshoops.com

In the 2007-2008 season, basketball fans in mid-Michigan should expect to see...

• Four reasons why Saginaw is the best basketball city in Michigan--Saginaw High, Arthur Hill, Buena Vista and Nouvel.

• Saginaw's Draymond Green become another Spartan with a Mr. Basketball award.

• Grand Blanc's Adrian Hunter score 25 or more points in ten games.

• Lansing Waverly's Zach Saylor and Holt's Joe Powers as mid-Michigan's most improved players.

• Reese's Ty Graham earn some respect for hoops in the Thumb.

• Frankenmuth's Brad Redford lead the state in scoring and in 3-point shooting percentage.

• Okemos fans in togas.

• An experienced Haslett team win the CAAC-3 over DeWitt and Fowlerville.

• Buena Vista's Torian Oglesby emerge as one of the top forwards in class C.

• Lansing Eastern as the surprise team in the CAAC-1 on the strength of super freshman LaDontae Hinton.

• Midland or Mt. Pleasant upset one of the big boys in Saginaw.

• Overworked officials vilified even more than normal by zealous basketball fans.

• The best student section, pound-for-pound, in mid-Michigan at Alma.

• Genesee Christian as a better, not worse, team without all-state forward, Scott Soldan, in class D.

• The Anthony Crater-less Knights at Flint Southwestern struggle early before creating some much-needed team chemistry under their new head coach, Judge Nathaniel Perry.

• Another dysfunctional season at Birch Run.

• Cory (CCC) and Mark (Bath) compete for the honor of top Schneider in Lansing-area.

• Fans complain about moving the Saginaw High vs. Arthur Hill games to somewhere other than Saginaw High or Arthur Hill.

• Bay City All Saints quietly become one of the top teams in class D.

• Goodrich's Joe Boisture and Lapeer East's Steve Wilmers emerge as an intriguing wing prospects.

• Frankenmuth become the smallest team in the state with a .500 or better record on the strength of their great coach, Tim Crawford.

• Lapeer East win the Flint Metro League over Holly, Swartz Creek and Lapeer West.

• Arthur Hill's Tyrie Wooten get the respect he deserves.

• Buctown's Dominque Allen posterize three players, if not more.

• Saginaw Nouvel's Warren Wood be a finalist for statewide coach of the year.

• A new enforcer of student section conduct at Flint C-A's "gravel pit" with the return of AD Bob Root to the bench.

• Burton Bentley finish in second place in the GAC Blue for the third straight season.

• The Moreland Brothers, Shane and Tyler, make a name for themselves as one of the top backcourts in the state.

• Flint Central's Demetrius Miller become the Robin to Keenan Coleman's Batman.

• Cody Metcalf put up Sipkovsky-like numbers at Perry.

• Dillion Teague and Tyler Feeney put Webberville on the map.

• Okemos' sharpshooters Travis Bader and Kai Goldynia combine for 10 3-pointers in one game.

• The GLH editor predict big things for Davison, recant, and be made to look stupid, again.

• Saginaw Nouvel's junior big man, Jahred Rapin, become a division one prospect.

• Mike Repovz at LCC on the court, despite a serious knee injury suffered in the first football game of his senior season.

• Addition by subtraction at Flushing.

• Ithaca win the TVC west.

• The best basketball fans in mid-Michigan in, you guessed it, Frankenmuth.

• Buctown's super sophomore Taron Boose average 18+ points per game.

• A lot of grumbling about the influx of transfers.

• Saginaw High fall short of another state title.

• Flint Powers finally get out of districts.

• Saginaw Nouvel return to the Breslin Center.

• New Lothrop there with them, albeit in a different class.