On the Davidsons (the College and the ACHS coach)

Since I'm old, I refer to someone going on a scoring tear in the NCAA tournament as "doing a Glen Rice". Rice was a forward at Michigan who went unconscious for three weeks and led the Wolverines to the 1989 NCAA title, scoring a tournament-record 184 points in six games.

I think I've gotta update that. From now on, it will be called "doing a Stephen Curry", in honor of the Davidson sophomore guard who has led the Wildcats to the Elite Eight. He scored 40 and 30 points in his first two games, and added 33 for DC in Friday's win over Wisconsin.

Curry is the son of Dell Curry, who carved out a nice NBA career as a 3-point specialist and probably had one of the quickest releases on his jump shot as any player in history.

So a school with 1,700 students (roughly half the size of the enrollment at West Aurora) is one game from the Final Four. The school ponied up for a bus trip, tickets and two nights in a hotel for close to 300 students who wanted to see the school play in Detroit this weekend, think they'll do the same thing next weekend if the team gets to San Antonio?

Whatever happens on Sunday, Davidson is by far the best story of the tournament, and Curry is now on everyone's radar as an All-American candidate next year. The kid's no flash-in-the-pan, either, as he had nice games against North Carolina (24 points), Duke (20) and NC State (29) earlier this season and ranks fourth nationally at 25.7 points per game.

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Aurora Christian coach Don Davidson announced his retirement today after 31 years on the sideline. Best wishes to the coach, who combined to win 631 games (between Yorkville and ACS) in his career and took the Eagles downstate twice.

A class act and a man whose commitment to his faith, his family and his school commanded an immense amount of respect, will stay in coaching but will be moving to the grade school level. He might be changing gears on his coaching career, but I doubt that will change the impact he will have on his athletes.