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.