A whole lot about Air Force hoops in the paper today … and none of it really deals with this season.
As mentioned earlier, The Gazette has selected an All-Time Air Force men’s basketball team. You can find it here. Kudos to our designer, Brent Briggeman, who came up with and created the design on the front page. He used the famous Sports Illustrated cover with five members of the 1992 Olympic Dream team as the basis for his idea and superimposed Air Force uniforms and the faces of our five starters over the faces of the guys in the original photo. For the record, those players were: (Front row, left to right) Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan; (Back row, left to right) Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Karl Malone.
Also, columnist David Ramsey checked in on how former Air Force coach Joe Scott and former Air Force player and assistant coach A.J. Kuhle are doing up at Denver. Check out his column here.
Thank you for the excellent artice, Jake. You know, Otis Jones and Raymond Dudley were much better than their stats indicate, although their statistics are outstanding. Both of those players, who played in different eras, faced double teams every game. The opponent usually thought that it could play 3 on 4 versus the other Air Force players, but it couldn’t afford to let Dudley or Jones get off a shot. If either of those guys had been on our recent NCAA or NIT teams, they would have been opened eyes around the country with their performances because they would have been one-on-one with defenders. There were some hard calls to make, and the omissions that you mentioned probably would have been on my team. Thanks again for this well-researched and well-written story!