COURTSIDE
HOW IT STARTED…
March 13, 1998 – one team failed to fulfill its promise and suffered a crushing 85-83 overtime loss in the Sectional Championship.
March 21, 1998 – one team raised the championship trophy and completed a season long quest to finish high school, as state champs and the #1 team in the nation.
A lifelong curiosity was born of these two dates in Illinois high school basketball history – of these two teams – and their destiny to battle for state supremacy during the 1997-98 season.
The highly anticipated state semi-final matchup between the Hillcrest Hawks and Whitney Young Dolphins – South Burbs Upstarts vs. Reigning City Champs – never happened. What could have been, what never was – is now reimagined as...
