O'Dowd backcourt makes history

[Streak One]

With Elijah Hardy (Washington) and Naseem Gaskin (Utah) signing on Wednesday, the O'Dowd instagram account posted saying it was the first time a Bay Area backcourt signed to the Pac-12 since 1949.

I can't think of a recent backcourt to refute that statement.

 

[SonomaGuy]

I believe there were two guards from Casa Grande in the northbay that signed pac 10 in the early 2000's 02 03 04 somewhere in that range

 

[SonomaGuy]

2003

Angelo Tsagarakis - Oregon State
Josh Akognon - Washington State

 

[larry legend33]

Wow.. Great call guys. Those were some good times in the north bay w/ Tiedeman at Monty as well. I believe Angelo was a French kid.

 

[bones40]

Shows you what the pac 12 has come to more then anything.

 

[treshon]

Shows you what the pac 12 has come to more then anything.

What do you mean by that?

 

[ProlificPrepTV]

Wow, brought up some good memories of Josh Akognon and Angelo Tsagarakis at Casa Grande. We won a lot of games and had some really good memories. Angelo was as confident of a shooter I have ever seen at the high school level. Josh was extremely raw, but ended up having a really good professional career (and dropped 28 pts a few weeks ago against the Houston Rockets).

Both are still playing professionally and staying healthy.

 

[SmoothJay]

With Elijah Hardy (Washington) and Naseem Gaskin (Utah) signing on Wednesday, the O'Dowd instagram account posted saying it was the first time a Bay Area backcourt signed to the Pac-12 since 1949.

I can't think of a recent backcourt to refute that statement.

Pac8/10/12 conference has only existed since the 60's, so 1949 is kind of nonsensical, since current Pac 12 teams were in different conferences.