1978 PROVISO WEST HOLIDAY TOURNAMENT:
A COLLEGE RECRUITER'S GOLDMINE
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The Proviso West Holiday Tournament
has had a storied past with its chapters of high school folklore,
professional basketball players and state championship teams. However,
forgotten in the mix could be the 1978 Christmas Classic which produced a
record 18 players who later went on to play Division I basketball. No
other annual edition of the Proviso West event ever had so many scholarship
players. Here is a review of those 18 players from the Proviso West
Holiday Tournament Class of 1978. |
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| Player | High School | College |
| Joe Bresnahan | Fenwick | Creighton |
| Tyrone Brewer | Saint Joseph | Illinois State |
| Kevin Conrad | Benet Academy | Dayton |
| Tom Franz | New Trier | Davidson |
| Teddy Grubbs | Martin Luther King | DePaul |
| Michael Jenkins | Westinghouse | Northwestern |
| Don Klusendorf | Lyons Township | Illinois |
| Mike Lang | Benet Academy | Penn State |
| Ike Person | Barrington | Michigan |
| Mike Pijanowski | Elgin Larkin | Northern Iowa |
| Bernard Randolph | Westinghouse | DePaul |
| Glenn Rivers | Proviso East | Marquette |
| Larry Roby | Westinghouse | Bradley |
| Lonzell Simmons | Martin Luther King | Iowa State |
| Isiah Thomas | Saint Joseph | Indiana |
| John Tomlinson | Barrington | Dayton |
| Leon Van Hook | Morgan Park | Drake |
| Ken Williams | Saint Joseph | Kansas State |