The Friars have center Nate Watson from Portsmouth and assistant coach Ivan Thomas, a Norview grad and former Kecoughtan coach. The Jayhawks have forward David McCormack, who starred at Norfolk Academy.
OMAHA, Neb. Creighton’s Ryan Hawkins is leading a charmed life as a basketball player, and he would be the first to tell you.
No school except tiny Wayne State in Nebraska recruited him out of high school, and he planned to go there until a coaching change gave him an out.
He landed at Division II powerhouse Northwest Missouri State, which took a chance on the awkward, skinny 6-foot-7 kid from Iowa and developed him into one of the top players in program history. The Bearcats won three national championships in his five years there.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) Creighton's Ryan Hawkins is leading a charmed life as a basketball player, and he would be the first to tell you. No school except tiny Wayne State in Nebraska recruited him out of high school, and he planned to go there until a coaching change gave him an out.
Initially only recruited by Wayne State and Northwest Missouri State out of high school, Creighton’s Ryan Hawkins is leading a charmed life as a basketball player.