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Nike National Championships:
So.California All-Stars Are Beaten--(July 31, 1998)

In case you missed it from the revised game results which we just posted, there was at least one big upset in the Nike National Championships yesterday: Bray Center beat the Southern California All Stars, and they did it pretty convincingly, 80-66.

Bray features a team with a bunch of guys we've never heard of: Taron Barker, Bryan Bedford, Eugene Webster, Johnny Campbell, Shariff Chambiliss, Jordan Malone, Curtis Morgan, Jan Caron Butler (or Butler Jan Caron, or something like that), Curtis Morgan, Barry Thompson, Ocie Peet, and Leu Gillen. We don't think we've ever seen any of them and frankly, we don't know where "Bray Center" is either. But when we find out, you'll be the first to know.

If you saw the SCA team in the Slam-N-Jam NIT, or at least saw the roster and were familiar with the team, this one was really a different group of guys almost entirely. Just look at who they added, and who was dropped:

Slam N-Jam NIT

Nike National Championships

Keith Kincaide (6'-4" Sr. G) Dominguez
Tyson Chandler (7'-0" So. C) Dominguez
Keith Brooks (6'-5" Jr. F) Dominguez
Keilon Fortune (5'-8" So. PG)Dominguez
Jaffus Haley (6'-0" Sr. G)Dominguez
Cedric Thompson (6'-5" Jr. F)Dominguez
Mika McKinney (6'-2" Jr. G),Dominguez
Steve Moore (6'-3" Jr. G)Dominguez
James Jackson (5'-9" Sr. G)Dominguez
Donald James (5'-8" Sr. G)Dominguez

Keith Kincaide (6'-4" Sr. G) Dominguez
Tyson Chandler (7'-0" So. C) Dominguez
Keith Brooks (6'-5" Jr. F) Dominguez
Keilon Fortune (5'-8" So. PG) Dominguez
Wesley Stokes (5'-7" Jr. PG) L.B.Poly,
Josh Childress (6'-4" So. G) Lakewood Mayfair
Casey Jacobsen (6'-5" Sr. SG) Glendora
Travon Bryant (6'-8" Jr. PF) L.B. Jordan
Darius Sanders (6'-4" Fr. G) Compton? Canyon?
Armand Thomas (6'-8" Sr. F) Crenshaw
Jamaal Walls (6'-7" So. F) Canyon??

Oh, and the stats also listed some guy just as "Duke", who apparently played 7:54 in the game, and only scored one point, one assist and one turnover for the SoCal All-Stars. We have no idea who it was. But given the result yesterday, it would appear that the team which played at the NIT under the SoCal All-Star banner had better chemistry, and a few less egos bouncing on the floor at once. Someone should tell these guys that you can only have one ball on the floor at a time. Either that, or this Bray team is really really good.

SoCal shot pretty poorly, hitting only 27 of 62 attempts from the field. Nevertheless, Keilon Fortune scored 11 ponts and had 5 assists in 20 minutes, Wesley Stokes only had 4 points, Josh Childress only had 5 points, and Keith Kincaide and Armand Thomas hit for 4 and 3 respectively. Casey Jacobsen was the high scorer with 17 points, and he also had 7 rebounds, and 2 assists. Jacobsen committed three turnovers. Tyson Chandler had 11 points as did Travon Bryant, and interestingly, Bryant out-rebounded Chandler, 10 to 5.

For Bray, the hot hand was Taron Barker, with 23 points and 4 assists in 26 minutes of play. Johnny Campbell had 11, and Bulter Jan Caron (or whatever his name is) scored 24 points.

In their first game, SoCal just hammered Seattle Rotary, 80-51, and in that game, Jacobsen scored 18 points, and had 3 assists. Keith Kincaide scored 15 points, Tyson Chandler and Trayvon Bryant also scored the same, 12 points each. Wesley Stokes had 4, Keith Brooks had 4, Darius had 2, and Jamaal Walls scored 1. Armand Thomas didn't play in the first game.

For Seattle Rotary, Jimmy Haywood scored 11 points, Ed Roy had 13, Chester Simmons had 9, Aaron Anderson had 8 ponts, David Hudson had 4, Darren Johnson had 4 and Yusef Aziz had 2 points. Ed Roy led all Seattle rebounders with 8 in a little over 25 minutes of game time. Tyson Chandler also had 8 rebounds for SoCal and 3 blocked shots.