![]() Remembering Bourbon County Coach Russ Day.Remembering Bryan Station coach Bobby Barlow.‘X’ marks a special place in Alan Donhoff’s heart.RIP, LexCath basketball coach Tommy Starns.Wayne Gaunce’s heart had sweet spot for Sweet 16.Highlands’ Sweet 16 title is ‘mountaintop’ for Listermans.Bob Tucker retiring, leaving a lasting legacy at Somerset.To reintroduce myself: I was born in Pikeville, grew up in Bardstown, graduated from the University of Kentucky, worked at newspapers in Eustis, Fla., Lake City, Fla., Henderson, Ky., and Evansville, Ind., before coming to Lexington in 1980. Now, eight months later, I’m rested and ready for a part-time return to the game. So last June I retired from the Lexington Herald-Leader after covering approximately 4,000 high school sports events in my career. (Harrison County)Īfter working as a sports writer for 41 years, I needed a break from the daily demands and deadlines of the newspaper business. ![]() It was a good night for the Pioneers, and a good night for Kentucky high school basketball. Thirteen players scored for Transy, which shot 54%. Jones also had 20 points to go with 10 rebounds and four assists. Pulliam, from Harrison County, finished with 20 points. Eight Transy players hit three-pointers, led by Zachary Pulliam’s 6-for-11 long-range shooting, as Lane notched his 250th victory at Transy. The Pioneers blasted Earlham 86-62 Wednesday night for their fifth win in a row. Transy got off to a slow start this season, but it seems to have found its stride. ![]() I ask that question because I know the answer.” “When I’m out recruiting,” Lane said, “I always ask the kids, when you tell somebody you’re coming to visit Transy, what do they say? And they always say it’s a great academic school with a basketball reputation that’s really, really good. The school’s academic reputation needs no burnishing. Transy has also played host to the East-West high school all-star game. Transy also benefits from being only a few blocks down Broadway from Rupp Arena.ĭuring the Sweet Sixteen, Lane said most of the participating teams practice at Transy at some point, so the kids get to see the Pioneers’ facility. Two freshmen who didn’t need to be sold on the Pioneers are Harrison Lane, the coach’s son, and Spencer McKinney, whose dad Ed was Brian Lane’s basketball and golf teammate at Transy in the late 1980s. “I’ve always felt it’s like the big time of small college basketball.” “Not many Division III or small colleges have a weekly TV show that goes to over half the state like we do, or get the media coverage we do. “When you think of college basketball, Lexington is one of those places in the country that’s really, really special,” he said. Recruiting is a challenge for Lane because Transy plays at the NCAA’s Division III level where there are no athletic scholarships, only academic scholarships.īut as the son of legendary Transy coach Don Lane and a former Pioneer himself, Brian Lane knows better than anybody what his school has to offer. ![]() Grant Clarkson played for Collins in the state tournament. Hines Jones was on Scott County’s runner-up team to CovCath. Schmitt made it to Rupp with Trinity twice. Transy sophomore Kyle Gullett played for Johnson Central in four consecutive Sweet Sixteens. Schuh and Theobald played in the state tournament two years in a row, winning it in 2014 and making it to the final four in 2015. They come from state-championship certified programs such as Covington Catholic, Christian County, Lafayette, Lexington Catholic, Scott County and Trinity, and from small programs such as Collegiate and Danville.ĭoes the common thread of Kentucky high school basketball help tie Transy together tighter as a team?īo Schuh was part of CovCath’s 2014 title team, along with Cooper Theobald. The Transy roster is comprised of players from nine regions, stretching from the 2 nd in Western Kentucky to the 15 th and 16th in Eastern Kentucky. “It’s not by design, but we do try to do a good job (recruiting) in Kentucky,” Lane said. That is the Transylvania men’s team. All 16 players were basketball-bred in the Bluegrass State. Two dozen colleges in Kentucky have men’s and women’s basketball programs – from big schools like UK and Louisville, to little ones like Asbury and Brescia - but of those 48 rosters, only one is made up entirely of home-grown players. They were already pretty familiar with each because they are all graduates of Kentucky high school hoops. When Transylvania men’s basketball coach Brian Lane gathered his team for their first preseason get-together last summer, there was really no need to introduce the new players to the holdovers. Xavier grad leads Transy in scoring and assists. Transy Coach Brian Lane watches Alex Jones, a senior guard on the Pioneers’ all-Kentucky roster.
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