(Sports) Editor's Note

All-State basketball team

Posted by: Jim Rossow

Saturday, April 5, 2008 8:18 PM

Congratulations to Decatur Eisenhower's Lewis Jackson, the Player of the Year on The News-Gazette's 76th All-State Boys' Basketball Team. Our Paul Klee and photographer Robin Scholz spent time with the Purdue recruit this week in Decatur, where he is quite popular.
Jackson is the first Player of the Year from these parts since Centennial's Roger McClendon in 1984.
Here's our first team:
Kyle Cassity, Pinckneyville Sr. SG
Ruben Cotto, Alton Sr. PG
Kevin Dillard, Homewood-Flossmoor Sr. PG
Mike Dunigan, Farragut Sr. C
Nick Freundt, Batavia Sr. SF
Ryan Hare, Marshall Sr. SG
Lewis Jackson, Decatur Eisenhower Sr. PG
Verdell Jones, Champaign Central Sr. PG
Kenny Leverette, O'Fallon Sr. PG
Brandon Paul, Gurnee Warren Jr. SG
D.J. Richardson, Peoria Central Jr. SG
Matt Roth, Washington Sr. SG
Iman Shumpert, Oak Park-River Forest Sr. PG
John Shurna, Glenbard West Sr. PF
Stan Simpson, Simeon Sr. C

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