In an unprecedented, delayed, virus-troubled 2020-21 basketball season, a former California prep power has fallen on very hard times. The girls' program at Sacred Heart Prep of Atherton is at its nadir as this strange, truncated campaign winds down. The Gators are not just winless; they are not competitive against their traditional rivals in the strong West Bay Athletic League. Example A: Pinewood crushed SHP, 84-17, not long ago; then, last week, SHP forfeited the rematch (precise reasons for the forfeit were not announced). To refresh some memories, a generation ago, SHP was the top girls' program in the entire state, winning multiple CIF titles and, along the way, a state-record 88 victories in a row. They were ranked among the best teams in the U.S. On one of those units back in the 1990's, the Gators featured no fewer than eight Division I scholarship players who would attend such schools as Nevada-Reno, Cal, Colorado and Virginia. They were the California gold standard. No longer.
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