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Sanford by the numbers

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In case anybody cares, here's a quick little break down of Sanford's success/dominance over the last 3-plus decades.

37 = the number of consecutive state tournament appearances by the Warrior boys team (Marcus Thompson, who coaches Sanford's girls, was one of the early stars of those first Sanford teams to make the state tournament). Last time Sanford wasn't in the dance was '81-'82.

9 = the number of state titles Sanford has, almost double that of the 2nd most (5 by the late great Wilmington High School)

7 = the number of championship teams Stan Waterman has coached. Only Gene Thompson, Jim Doody and Steve Johnson have coached more than 2 (3 each for those gentlemen).

7-2 = Stan's record in title games.
 
Not saying that I care but here it goes, Sanford and Stan have something good going on. Sanford is a basketball school only other than academics. I have said this over and over that is what they specialize in. it’s the culture, if you have hoop aspirations and can play or you have the potential ie....height and live in new castle, it’s almost a no brainer, you go to Sanford. Good job by the entire Sanford family and congrats. Schools that don’t utilize school of choice are less likely to win a ship. Plain and simple. Stan has helped take basketball at the high school level to new heights around here imo.
 
Not saying that I care but here it goes, Sanford and Stan have something good going on. Sanford is a basketball school only other than academics. I have said this over and over that is what they specialize in. it’s the culture, if you have hoop aspirations and can play or you have the potential ie....height and live in new castle, it’s almost a no brainer, you go to Sanford. Good job by the entire Sanford family and congrats. Schools that don’t utilize school of choice are less likely to win a ship. Plain and simple. Stan has helped take basketball at the high school level to new heights around here imo.

No doubt that Stan and Sanford are the gold standard and have set the bar high. Everybody should welcome that challenge of competing against this quality of a program. Make no mistake, I was rooting for Dover today. I was hoping that we would have the magic of a wire to wire undefeated team.
(I wasn't at the game but in Philadelphia at a college game. I hope I have the opportunity to see a video of the game.)
 
Not saying that I care but here it goes, Sanford and Stan have something good going on. Sanford is a basketball school only other than academics. I have said this over and over that is what they specialize in. it’s the culture, if you have hoop aspirations and can play or you have the potential ie....height and live in new castle, it’s almost a no brainer, you go to Sanford. Good job by the entire Sanford family and congrats. Schools that don’t utilize school of choice are less likely to win a ship. Plain and simple. Stan has helped take basketball at the high school level to new heights around here imo.
How many times has Sanford boys and girls won titles in the same year
Think 2 but I know 1 before
 
Would of really liked to see what Mount would of done with Ali and Cramer. They could of been back to back threats to win it all.
Yea it would have been nice to see that team at full strength. Also if bones had went there as he planned (we not going to talk about how that did not happen). We would have been talking about back to back titles for mount. Those three have been winning in the summer for the past 3 years and have good chemistry together.
 
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