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Article: Back to school; After six years of not playing organized basketball, 24-year-old James Scheeler, a Christ Household of Faith member, is pursuing his hoop dream at Minnesota Community & Technical College.(SPORTS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- February 17, 2000
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Jay Pivec, men's basketball coach at Minneapolis Community & Technical College, would like to say he searched every backstreet gymnasium in the Twin Cities until he finally found little James Scheeler.
But the truth is Scheeler, the Marauders' leading scorer (15.7 points per game) and arguably their best player, "came to us out of the blue," Pivec said.
At a guard-heavy college that plays in the guard-dominated Minnesota Community College Conference, the 5-9 Scheeler somehow managed to turn an informal open-gym tryout last fall into one of the most unlikely freshman success stories Pivec has seen in his 10 seasons at MCTC.
For starters, ...
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