Pretty cool if true. Sounds like they will be broadcasting the February 4th game on an ESPN network.

Gotta go dust off my old Ravenscroft gear and head to the Finley Center for the big game!

Ryan Kelly, John Wall, CJ Leslie, Bishop Daniels.....oh my!

11/9/2008 8:41:12 AM

Fuck Ravenscroft

11/9/2008 8:45:40 AM

Ah, I see what you did there.

Still a great game, tons of implications for tobacco road recruiting!

11/9/2008 8:57:24 AM

has ravenscroft ever had a good athletics team?

11/10/2008 2:56:08 AM

hopefully we'll have 3 commitments playing in that game

11/10/2008 6:35:23 AM

^^???

yeah, ravenscroft always has really good athletics!

11/10/2008 1:46:34 PM

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"Fuck Ravenscroft"

11/10/2008 2:04:31 PM

Ravenscroft has always had good atheletics .... for a private school.


We used to dog them hard in everything but then they'd make the independent championships or some shit.


This team however is legitimately good.

11/10/2008 2:38:09 PM

Ravenscroft is a joke of a school. Especially in athletics. Every once in a while their basketball team is halfway decent. But other than those rare years they are a laughing stock in almost every sport.

11/10/2008 3:02:40 PM

NC State loves Word of God players!

11/10/2008 4:09:40 PM

Word of God will destroy Ravenscroft no doubt

11/10/2008 4:15:14 PM

wow, a school is named Word of God?


thats pretty hardcore

11/10/2008 6:08:03 PM

I had 5 points, 9 rebounds against Word of God in the State tournament in 2001.

Cam stanley and randy pulley were the names but they were pretty loaded.

11/10/2008 10:23:10 PM

cam stanley went to word of god? i know he graduated from millbrook and was there the whole time i was at millbrook

11/10/2008 10:42:40 PM

haha, my tiny private school in Kinston NC used to play these teams occasionally.

11/10/2008 10:48:26 PM

^ Parrot?

11/10/2008 11:00:55 PM

yeah Stanley was a 6'9 freshman on the '01 WOG team led by Randy Pulley (one of the non-qualifying guys that shady ass Quinn Snyder pulled in at missouri)

They got beat in the championship game by Anthony Atkinson (the famous guy who won the NCAA DII championship singlehandedly) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WzmQmz9Kdc Unbelievable that Campbell let this guy go for getting an argument with the coach.


I actually guarded Dwon Clifton (clemson) a few times when we tried box-and-one against them. I stopped him for a few minutes before he rained a 25 footer in my face at the end of the 3rd quarter.

He's more famous for being the HS coach of John Wall and landing the ast coaching job at Baylor than he is for being a top 40 recruit and turning down a scholarship to UNC to start at Clemson.... that's how good Wall is



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11/11/2008 12:19:47 AM

^I think Dwon's older brother took the job at Baylor, but he is definitely involved with wall

11/11/2008 12:26:09 AM

Baylor has the inside track with John Wall.

Wall’s AAU coach, Dwon Clifton of D-One Sports, has been hired by Scott Drew as the director of player development.

An official announcement will likely come from Baylor on Friday.

``After receiving offers from several schools from the Big 12 and many other conferences, Dwon has decided to accept a coaching position at Baylor University," Clifton’s brother, Brian, who is also one of Wall’s coaches, texted FOXSports.com.

The 6-foot-4 Wall, who plays at Word of God in Raleigh, N.C., is arguably the top player in the country and is the consensus No. 1 point guard in the nation. Sources indicated that Baylor was in the mix with Oklahoma State and Oregon as the front-runners to land Wall.

Several schools – including Kansas – had tried unsuccessfully to get in the mix with the point guard who has been compared to Derrick Rose due to his combination of size, speed and athleticism.

Sources also indicated that bringing Clifton on board as a coach was critical to gaining a commitment from Wall.

11/11/2008 12:33:17 AM

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"turning down a scholarship to UNC to start at Clemson"

is that true? i wasn't there, but what we're hearing about the cliftons is that they're upset with all of the triangle schools for how dwon's recruitment went.

11/11/2008 12:50:51 AM

well he was "offered" pretty early from UNC but i think he kinda got the "well if" treatment later on and basically was like fuck it. He became friends with that big guy from East Chapel Hill (the one with the knee problems) who basically got the same treatment from UNC and so they both decided to go to clemson at about the same time.... can't think of the guy's name... wanna say Chris something he had big gap teeth and always got in foul trouble

11/11/2008 1:14:27 AM

^Chris Hobbs...

And I don't recall Clifton being worth a damn or a starter? I thought he was a huge bust for Clemson?

11/11/2008 1:49:54 AM

yeah he ended up at unc-g.

11/11/2008 3:10:28 AM

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"^ Parrot?"

Yes indeed! (with two T's)

[I drove through your hometown to get there for like half a year until i figured out a quicker backroads way.]

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11/11/2008 3:33:25 AM

clifton started as a freshman and was pretty decent. He was mostly a defender/shooter.

He had a heart condition coming into his sophomore year that initially looked life threatening and was forced to give up basketball temporarily until they conducted further tests.

I don't know why he transferred out of Clemson after that whether he was homesick or just didn't like the way CU responded to his medical condition.

he went to millbrook for a year also but he didn't even play on the team despite being the best player in the school as a freshman. moved to georgia for a bit with his brother i believe before moving back to HP.

11/11/2008 8:51:59 AM

It should be exciting to watch this game on TV, probably ESPNU if it is still scheduled. Can't wait! Go WOG!

1/22/2009 6:58:05 PM

I was on the team that beat Oak Hill w/ Justin Gray in 2002.

... in tennis.

I actually played doubles against Justin Gray. He wasn't that good, but you couldn't get shots over him.

[Edited on January 22, 2009 at 7:26 PM. Reason : [.][.]

1/22/2009 7:26:41 PM

ravenscroft had a decent lacrosse team, or they did when I played them back in the day heh.

1/22/2009 7:50:48 PM

where did you play lax in HS?

they were pretty good back in early to mid 90's when I played...but their fans were a bunch of pricks

1/22/2009 10:07:38 PM

Word of God drops Ravenscroft 82-64

http://www.highschoolot.com/content/story/4471775/

[Edited on February 5, 2009 at 2:23 PM. Reason : ]

2/5/2009 2:23:32 PM

Is there a box score? All I have gathered so far is John Wall had 8 blocks, 20 first half points, CJ Leslie finished with 19 points and Bishop Daniels had 21

2/5/2009 2:29:03 PM

anyone is better than cary academy in sports

2/5/2009 5:42:05 PM

I never saw this on the TV schedule. Will it be rebroadcasted on ESPNU?

2/5/2009 6:06:16 PM

INSTANT CLASSIC

2/6/2009 8:49:19 AM

yeah I'm so pissed that I missed this one. completely forgot about it. This was the night of the Duke and Wake games.

2/6/2009 10:24:50 AM