Menard's collection of Wasilla High School yearbooks contains pictures of Palin on the honor society, student council, cross-country team and, most notably, as co-captain and point guard of the 1982 championship basketball team.

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Also, Duncan said that Miami was incorrect in its assertion that the NCAA was "incompetent, unprofessional, and uncooperative" in the timing of how basketball guard Durand Scott was declared ineligible on the very day the Hurricanes began play in the 2012 Atlantic Coast Conference tournament.

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"They did a good job, man, I'm happy for them, " Houston Rockets point guard Jeremy Lin, the biggest basketball star to come out of Harvard, said after the NBA team's shootaround on Friday morning.

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Taking better care of the basketball and picking up its defensive intensity allowed Vermont guard Sandro Carissimo got on a six-point run that gave Vermont its first lead since 10-9 when he scored on a drive to make it 45-43.

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In high school, he was valedictorian and president of his class, played quarterback for the football team and point guard for the basketball team.

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Though a childhood accident all but robbed him of his sight in one eye, Bing played All-American basketball at Syracuse University and went on to become an NBA Hall of Famer as a point guard, mainly for the Detroit Pistons.

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