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Eddren McCain/Reserve Christian

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News articles about BU commit Eddren McCain have been few and far between. But here is an article about McCain and Reserve Christian high school who are 36-9 and play tonight in their state tournament playoffs with a home game against Singer HS. Reserve is going for their 4th straight state title, and 6th out of the last 7 years. They won their last game 116-55.

The article says Eddren McCain has averaged a triple double this season.

http://www.deridderdailynews.com/articles/2008/02/26/sports/sports1.txt
 
To repeat something we've posted before--
Eddren McCain's team, Reserve Chrisitian High School of Reserve, LA, is one of the smallest schools in the smallest division in the state of Louisiana. Because his school does not play football, they are allowed to start playing basketball about a month earlier, and they are allowed to play many more games than any other high schools play in any state. But they are a basketball powerhouse and play a huge number of their games against the larger class schools. I think all their losses came against the large schools, and they are the overwhelming favorite to win the state championship again this year.
 
Of the recruits so far, I am very curious to see Eddren play and how Eddren will adapt to the collge game during his freshman year.
 
Even half of his HS output will be relatively successful his first couple yrs at Bradley. Just hope he doesn't get the cold touch like TCS has latched onto. We already know we have bonafide starting players in SM, AW and TW. Combine them with a hopefully good Thompson and Mccain with just enough from Egolf, Austin, collins, TCS and whomever else off the bench and I think we'll be just fine for another decent season. To bad thats another 9 months away LOL.

Jason
 
jasonpeoria911 said:
Even half of his HS output will be relatively successful his first couple yrs at Bradley. Just hope he doesn't get the cold touch like TCS has latched onto. We already know we have bonafide starting players in SM, AW and TW. Combine them with a hopefully good Thompson and Mccain with just enough from Egolf, Austin, collins, TCS and whomever else off the bench and I think we'll be just fine for another decent season. To bad thats another 9 months away LOL.

Jason
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HS stats mean nothing. JJ Tauai was a scoring machine in high school, and was anything but an offensive player at BU. I haven't seen McCain play, so I can't say one way or the other, but we shouldn't set expectations or make judgments based on high school statistics. He's good enough to play at this level, or else we wouldn't have offered him a scholarship. That's all we know for sure at this point.
 
None of us has seen him play, but Coach Brooks has seen him multiple times, and other coaches have seen him too. I hear the coaches are very high on Eddren. They project him to play some next year in the guard rotation.
 
Apparently Edderen has put up consistently good stats against some of the best HS competition in the country, including some west coast team I believe. The kid is for real.
 
Da Coach said:
Reserve Christian is in the Final 4 in the Class C playoffs.
Their next game is noon on Wednesday, 3/5.

Here is the bracket--
http://www.lhsaa.org/brackets/2007-08 Brackets/2008BasketballBoys.pdf
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The other top team in the Class C Finals is Atlanta

Atlanta is presently 38-0 and ranked #1 in Class C.
http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080301/SPORTS02/803010361/1006/SPORTS
http://www.2theadvocate.com/columnists/fambrough/16159912.html

Louisiana's State Finals are called the Top 28, because the final four teams in each of their SEVEN classes (1A, 2A, 3A, 4A, 5A, B, C),
all come to the same location
(at Louisiana-Lafayette's CAJUNDOME) and they play basketball from dawn to late night until it's all over!
http://www.2theadvocate.com/sports/16159237.html

"Reserve Christian is the defending Class C champion and is making its eighth tourney appearance. RCA has five state titles.
Atlanta (38-0) is the only unbeaten team in the seven-class field. Atlanta battles Athens, the 2007 runner-up, in a Class C semifinal Wednesday."


---ps---one last question I have is why does the NCAA allow the team
nickname "Cajun" and even allow them to call their arena the "Cajundome"?
There are actually some "Cajuns" who are offended by this!!
The term "Cajun" was (and to some degree still is) a derogatory name for the
French people who populated southern Louisiana, and is little different than
calling Indiana "Injuns", Germans "krauts", or Polish people "pollacks".
The word "Cajun" is a slang term for "Acadian", a term referring to French
settlers from Acadia (a loose term for the community of French settlers in
Nova Scotia and Northern Maine...that later relocated in Quebec)
Most experts on the subject will tell you that "Cajun" is a derogatory term
like "Chink" and the "N"-word, although the very people to which it refers (the
French descendants) now seem less offended by it and even use it
themselves, but that's to a large degree, because of the commercial value to
things that are "Cajun"....such as foods and spices.
http://louisiana.wedding.net/culture.html
 
I have used Maxpreps as a source numerous times and found them to be incorrect and insufficient many times, but...
Reserve Christian has travelled numerous times in each of the past several season, but I really can't get much on their schedule this year.

By the way, LB, that link is incorrect and takes you nowhere.

Eddren has travelled last year with his team, and here is proof.
This is the picture after they won the entire BIG TIME Les Schwab Invitational at Medford, Oregon last season
beating BOTH South Medford, OR (whose star was Duke's Kyle Singler) and Lake Oswego, OR (whose star was UCLA's Kevin Love).
http://www.northwesthoops.com/Feature_Articles/reserve_christian_wins_les_schwa.htm

lis2005championship_028.jpg


Eddren is the 3rd from the left, he is #11 but his uniform # is not seen, he is standing between players #5 (warmup jacket on) and #23 (the guy next to the coach with the dark gray jacket).

Here is another pic of Eddren, to confirm it's him:
269038m.jpg



This may be the link you were trying for but it's their schedule from a couple years ago showing lots of out of state games.
Reserve Christian's Schedule
 
The link should work now. I was interested to see what teams he played and this was the only place I could find the schedual. Do you have another link that shows an accurate schedual?
 
Singler's team was the OR state champs last year. That is a very impressive win for a small team from LA. I wonder if the team/school didnt have the money to travel this year.
 
I don't, and I don't dispute your comment that they didn't travel out of state this year, as I don't have anything to say to the contrary,
only that Eddren has played 3 seasons with them and two of those seasons I can assure that they travelled widely and played often out of state.

By the way....Biloxi, MS is out of state (on this season's schedule) and many of those games they played this
year caused them to travel quite widely around the state to play some of the biggest and best teams in all classes.
 
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