I saw one  of the weirdest high school basketball games I have seen in quite some time tonight when the Kendrick girls squared off with Rutland.
Kendrick has only lost once in the last few years and that was a few weeks ago. They led 16-0 after the first quarter, and 31-4 at the half. But somehow, Rutland head coach Johnny Dixon got his girls to come out and play inspired basketball and outscored Kendrick 18-2 in the third quarter. I am not sure what he said to them, but all of a sudden the Canes showed a great deal of athleticism and actually beat the Kendrick girls at their own game with full court pressure and creating turnover. Unfortunately, after cutting the lead to 8 in the fourth quarter, the Canes ran out of gas and were outscored 16-0 over the last four minutes and lost 53-30.
The game took forever to play, mainly because of the combined 77 turnovers. Rutland turned if over 46 times, but Dixon said the last time they played they turned it over 53 times.
The Rutland boys are very very good. The three players listed in my top 10 today all had great games. Ty'lik Evans had a triple double with 23 points, 10 assists and 10 steals. He looked like the best player in the city tonight, but is in a bit of a shooting slump, hitting only 3-of-12 from behind the 3-point line. Jeremy Braswell had 21 points, while Dallas Smith had 20 points and 11 rebounds. Timori Northcutt scored in double figures and had what might have been his first dunk judging from the smile on his face. Right after the dunk he had another breakaway, but layed that one up. Coming to he bench after a timeout, his team was giving him grief, but he was smiling and said he was exhausted,
Rutland scored 100 points for the first time of the year and it was quite a show of high intensity basketball