Jeremy Lin Perspective - The 05-06 Mater Dei High School Basketball Roster

By now, it's wide-spread knowledge that Jeremy Lin's Palo Alto High School basketball team upset a "storied" Mater Dei team for the California basketball title in 2006. This article provides some interesting perspective about the type of upset it was:

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One interesting thing the article mentions is that Palo Alto High didn't have a single player recruited for D-1 ball (with the exception of Lin and Harvard). So, out of curiosity, I looked up the top ten players from Mater Dei's 05-06 roster. I suspected that a couple of them might have received scholarship offers to D-1 programs, and it would add a little to the Jeremy Lin story.

I didn't expect that eight of them have ended up on major D-1 rosters:

Taylor King - Duke / Villanova
Alex Jacobson - Arizona
Kamyron Brown - Oregon / Nebraska
David Wear - UNC / UCLA
Travis Wear - UNC / UCLA
Blake Arnet - UCLA
Andy Brown - Stanford
Jamaal Trice - Connecticut

It should be noted that the Wear twins were freshmen at the time, and they didn't play in the championship game. Still, it seems like the Palo Alto victory was a modern-day Hoosiers story. And, of course, it's quite strange that scouts completely ignored a player who scored 17 points against a loaded team full of D-1 prospects.