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One prep basketball game, three Division I recruits, 86 combined points
Mike Hlas Feb. 15, 2011 9:32 pm
I know I've seen teammates score 30 points each in a basketball game I've covered. I'm just not sure where, or who, or at what level.
Maybe I'm not really all that sure.
Tuesday night at Cedar Rapids Jefferson, I saw it. Linn-Mar senior forward Matt Bohannon and junior guard Marcus Paige score 30 points apiece in the 20-0 Lions' 70-64 win over Jefferson (14-5).
Bohannon is a Northern Iowa recruit. Paige will head to North Carolina sometime in 2012.
Senior forward Jarrod Uthoff scored 26 points for the J-Hawks, 21 after halftime. He'll play college ball at Wisconsin.
Throw in Iowa commit Josh Oglesby of Cedar Rapids Washington, and sprinkle in a few other names around Cedar Rapids-Marion, and it adds up to perhaps the most talented collection of players that's ever been seen in this city.
I'll have a more-detailed column about this on Wednesday afternoon.
Jarrod Uthoff of Cedar Rapids Jefferson challenges the shot of Linn-Mar's Marcus Paige (Cliff Jette/SourceMedia Group)

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