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Got to know your history. The Post doesn’t. It’s a shame.

Unfortunate that a top rated Journalism school isn't able to do research prior to printing something like this.

Are you kidding? I am not sure he is even the highest rated recruit of the 2019 class. Jeez. (And I am a big believer in Roderick)

Did they even rate recruits back in Walter Luckett's day? I'm going to guess it's sort of like ESPN doing everything in the NFL based on the Super Bowl era. That being said I'm pretty sure Diante Flenorl was ranked higher.

I don't believe that we had anything remotely like what we have today. Since there was no internet back then rankings of players were more a "trade secret" among the coaching fraternity than it was something readily available to the average fan. That's my very general impression. Others on this board can certainly give more specific detail.

They had their top 100 and things like that. As for Diante Flenorl being ranked higher than Walter Luckett, how could anyone be ranked higher than the NATIONAL High School Player of the Year? He was unquestionably the No. 1 rated recruit in the nation. Practically every team outside of UCLA recruited him.

Walter's numbers his senior season were obscene for anyone, much less for a 6-4 GUARD; 39.5 points, 16 rebounds and 13 assists. And he was averaging around 45 points per game prior to playing with the injured knee that eventually needed surgery following that season. He scored 2,691 points over a four-year high school career. Think about that.

If I recall correctly, he had more than 300 offers. I know Maryland and North Carolina were hot after him and that was during their heydays. Walter got one first place vote for the all-American team his last two seasons at Ohio. It came from North Carolina's legendary coach Dean Smith. I called and asked Dean why, considering he never saw Walter play live. He said he didn't have to. He saw him in high school and that was enough, that in his opinion, there couldn't be two better guards in the country.

Oh yeah, his high school jersey is in the National Basketball Association (NBA) Hall of Fame.

Pretty solid credentials, I'd say, right?

Cut the young reporter some slack. A professional reporter for the Columbus Dispatch, in an article today about Jeff Boals's first season as Ohio's coach, mentioned the top two scorers from last year's team are no longer on the team. And that Jason Carter is now at Colorado St. and Teyvion Kirk at X.

Thanks for the clarification, OUVan. I should have known better, coming from you.

GO BOBCATS!!!

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Good memory! You are helping to refresh my memory. I used to buy a copy of that publication every year, about August. I learned so much from it, like the name of school where my youngest daughter now teaches -- as Street & Smith listed it, Cal Poly (San Luis Obispo), not to be confused with their listing for that legendary football school -- Cal Poly (Pomona).

Yeah and I think some of the writers/editors responsible for that just recently graduated.

Absolutely, BruceCuth. Walt Luckett played in it. I attending the Classic a few times. I remember seeing guys like Ralph Sampson, Sam Bowie, Dominique Wilkins, James Worthy, to name a scant few...