Daniel West

[tornado]

Michigan Class A (the largest class)
First round of their Elite Eight:


Ann Arbor Pioneer 65, Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central 37

Detroit Redford 100, Detroit Osborn 89

Warren DeLaSalle 61, Pontiac Northern 55

Saginaw 44, Clarkston 30

Semifinals are set..............

Breslin Center - East Lansing
CLASS A - Friday, March 23
Saginaw (23-1) vs. Ann Arbor Pioneer (21-4) - 1 p.m.
Detroit Redford (20-6) vs. Warren DeLaSalle (22-4) - 2:50 p.m.

Congrats to Daniel and his team!!!
Way to go!

[dogsrus]

Re: Daniel West's team/Saginaw HS Wins & Advances

Michigan Class A (the largest class)
First round of their Elite Eight:


Ann Arbor Pioneer 65, Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central 37

Detroit Redford 100, Detroit Osborn 89

Warren DeLaSalle 61, Pontiac Northern 55

Saginaw 44, Clarkston 30

Semifinals are set..............

Breslin Center - East Lansing
CLASS A - Friday, March 23
Saginaw (23-1) vs. Ann Arbor Pioneer (21-4) - 1 p.m.
Detroit Redford (20-6) vs. Warren DeLaSalle (22-4) - 2:50 p.m.

Congrats to Daniel and his team!!!
Way to go!

Agreed...congrats. Now go home and hit the books just as hard.

[tornado]

Several articles about last night game in which Daniel West scored 13.

http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=prep&id=5135376

http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/sports-22/1174455257161230.xml&storylist=newsmichigan

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070321/SPORTS09/703210392/1057/SPORTS03

[PeoriaLou]

Daniel West's team listed in the SI.com top 25 this week, coming in at #24.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/highschool/03/20/top25.rankings/1.html

[bravesonly]

peorialou ~ that is a cool link...i was checking out the box on simeon being number 1, never realized the illinois state tourney was considered tops in all the land...kinda cool. i love this board. go peoria

[tornado]

Re: Daniel West's team/Saginaw HS Wins & Advances

Michigan Class A (the largest class)
First round of their Elite Eight:

.......
Semifinals are set..............

Breslin Center - East Lansing
CLASS A - Friday, March 23
Saginaw (23-1) vs. Ann Arbor Pioneer (21-4) - 1 p.m.
Detroit Redford (20-6) vs. Warren DeLaSalle (22-4) - 2:50 p.m.

Congrats to Daniel and his team!!!
Way to go!

Game just over........Daniel West's team wins..........

Saginaw defeates Ann Arbor Pioneer, 60-43, and will now play for the State Championship in Michigan's largest class (Class A)
on Saturday at 4PM (Eastern)

Saginaw is 24-1, and the game was described as a "drubbing".

The game was tied early but Saginaw pulled out to a significant lead thereafter and never trailed.
Saginaw has now win SIX playoff games to get to this point, and their average winning margin is 20.5 points.


Here is the box score, Daniel West had 5 pts, 5 asst., 3 rebs, 4 steals.

http://www.mhsaa.com/sports/bbb/07asf1.htm

[PeoriaLou]

West and Buycks in 08?! Wow.....

[Dubl R 1]

peorialou ~ that is a cool link...i was checking out the box on simeon being number 1, never realized the illinois state tourney was considered tops in all the land...kinda cool. i love this board. go peoria

We have even found a way to ruin that as we go to a 4-class structure next year in basketball. IMO, that will make the state tourney less interesting.

[real fan]

Need to get both of their signatures in november.

[BradleyBrave]

Need to get both of their signatures in november.

I hope we do, but I think the odds are slim. I'll be happy if we get one of them.

[Big Mike]

At this point I say let's sign-em both!

[tornado]

Hmmm.... why do you say "slim"...as if we lose them all the time?

...we have "lost" a recruit or two in years gone by, but not generally because we failed to get the signature on the LOI.

Xavier Crawford signed his LOI but ended up at prep school.
Daniel Ruffin signed his LOI but had issues with the clearinghouse.
Anthony Grundy (now we're reaching back a decade) also did sign his LOI but was a no show
even all those guys at the other MVC schools (Dunson, Dentmon, Tabb) all signed but went elsewhere.

The only guy who verballed and required that a scholarship be held, then backed out of signing a LOI that I can think of locally was Charlie Villaneuva.

The other guys that BU might have "lost", guys like Manual Cass, Anthony Slack, OE, etc...never actually verballed to BU.

So I guess it could happen and I guess we could worry, but we've done all we can, and we're in the best spot to be in.


BTW-- Saginaw's superstud recruit Draymond Green was interviewed and asked about
Tubby Smith leaving Kentucky right after he had verballed to Kentucky, and Green said
he was "shocked" by Smith's decision to leave.

"I knew there had been talk about Coach getting fired, but there is that kind of talk every year," Green said. "That's just how the Kentucky coach gets treated."

He did not say whether he would reopen his recruitment, but he has not signed a LOI

[Da Coach]

Here's another report on the semifinal games.
First, the semifinal between Saginaw and Ann Arbor Pioneer that Saginaw won 60-43.--

http://michiganpreps.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=656276

They will play Detroit Redford for the state championship on Saturday. Redford features Michigan Mr. Basketball Corperryale Harris. They played once earlier this year and Saginaw won 70-54 on December 23.--

http://michiganpreps.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=656315

[Da Coach]

Some video highlights of Saginaw's win in the semifinals--

http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=local&id=5145117

West is #12 in the video clips

[it's boogie time]

Good find on the video clip. Thanks.

It sounds like quite a program at Saginaw that Daniel West plays for.