I watched Ygnacio Valley play tonight at Dublin. At pregame warmups your eyes go directly to the tally skinny white guy. A quick look at MaxPreps shows he’s 6’10” junior Evan McNight. He can’t be more than 200 lbs.
YV doesn’t have anyone else over 6’3”, but they’ve got a good collection of athletes and can run the floor well. 6’3” sophomore Antonio Kellogg is their leading scorer at 14 ppg, but they’ve got a balanced scoring attack with several players over 10 ppg.
Dublin took the early lead and was up by double digits a lot of the game, but the Warriors kept coming back and made a game of it. McNight doesn’t factor into the offense much (I’m sure Dublin’s game plan was to keep it away from him), but he gets a lot of boards and defensively he alters a lot of shots. Would be interesting to see him play against Granada’s big 6’11” McKeever. McNight needs to put on some weight, and had a nagging back/hip injury that took him out of the game a few times, but he’s just a junior.
YV was well coached and came back to within 4 in the final 2 minutes, but couldn’t get closer and ended up losing 58-48. They are division 4 and will be a handful for any team they play. They’re currently ranked third in NCS D4 behind just Justin Sienna & University. They hung right with Dublin impressively tonight and that should be their toughest test until the postseason.
