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The 1987 McDonald's All-American Boys Game was an all-star basketball game played on Sunday, April 12, 1987 at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The game's rosters featured the best and most highly recruited high school boys graduating in 1987. The game was the 10th annual version of the McDonald's All-American Game first played in 1978.
Nether Providence High School was a part of the Wallingford-Swarthmore School District. Nether Providence High School was founded as a small, rural high school in 1924. However, population grew throughout the 1950s and 1960s, leading to additions in 1952 and 1963. The building was shared with Nether Providence Junior High School.
The following is a list of PIAA basketball state champions for boys and girls' basketball for each division sanctioned by the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association. Divisions are organized by class enrollment size from the smallest (1A) to the largest (6A). Divisions 5A and 6A began in 2017. [1]
The cofounders of the game, Sonny Vaccaro and Pat DiCesare, were two boyhood friends from the small Western Pennsylvania town of Trafford. [4] Vaccaro was a young school teacher and sports enthusiast who in the early 1960s had organized local high school basketball tournaments throughout Pennsylvania.
Mr. and Miss Pennsylvania Basketball is a yearly award given to the best high school basketball player in Pennsylvania. Twenty-five of each boys and girls student athletes are nominated by PAbball.com and states coaches and media vote for final six nominees and the public along with coaches votes for the winner.
Strath Haven High School is the product of a 1983 merger between the former Swarthmore High School and Nether Providence High School. [2] In 1971, Pennsylvania state officials had determined that Wallingford and Nether Providence school districts had too small enrollments to maintain an independent existence. [3]
The 2021–22 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team represented Pennsylvania State University in the 2021–22 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.They were led by first-year head coach Micah Shrewsberry and played their home games at the Bryce Jordan Center in University Park, Pennsylvania as members of the Big Ten Conference.
In 1996, PSU reached as high as #8 in the AP Top 25 poll. He was All Big Ten 1996, 1997, and 1998; earned Honorable Mention for AP All-American in 1996, and holds numerous Penn State records. He was a member of the USA under-22 National Team, [5] which played an exhibition game against the United States men's national basketball team in 1996.