NEW YORK — There are times when Hallice Cooke looks passive as a basketball player, and other times when he can be a very dangerous man from long range.
Fortunately for St. Anthony, Cooke got into a groove at just the right time.
The 6-foot-3 Oregon State-bound shooting guard earned MVP honors at the SNY Invitational after putting up a game-best 22 points as St. Anthony won its 81st consecutive game, 52-45, over Long Island Lutheran at City College.
St. Anthony (16-0) has now won the SNY Invitational the last two years it has been held — 2011 and ’13.
“Coach [Bob Hurley] didn’t really have the leash on me today,” Cooke, who went 7-of-13 overall and 6-of-10 from beyond the arc, said with a broad smile. “He kind of let me play and he told me that he wasn’t going to take me out of the game. So I just had to be smart and play through mistakes.” To read more of this story, click here
Here’s my TV hit from Friday in which I went out on a limb, ahem, and picked St. Anthony to win the SNY Invitational.
Temple-bound Josh Brown and the Friars take their 80-game winning streak into today’s 4 p.m. championship game against UConn-bound forward Kentan Facey and Long Island Lutheran.
Cardinal Hayes meets Boys & Girls in the 2 p.m. consolation game.
NEW YORK – When Josh Brown first arrived at St. Anthony High School three years ago, he had never played point guard.
“He didn’t play the position until the end of sophomore year,” Hall of Fame St. Anthony coach Bob Hurley told SNY.tv.
“We said to the AAU guys, ‘Try to start playing him at that position. We think ultimately that’s going to be where he’s going to play in college.’”
Three years later, the Temple-bound Brown is the latest in a long line of Hurley-coached point guards to enjoy success and earn a Division 1 scholarship.
After posting 14 points, seven rebounds, two assists, two steals and four turnovers to lead St. Anthony to their 80th consecutive victory, 43-28 over Brooklyn Boys & Girls in the SNY Invitational at City College, Brown remains unbeaten in a Friars uniform. So does his teammate, Oregon-State bound senior guard Hallice Cooke, who added 12 points in the win. To read more of this story, click here
Hall of Fame coach Bob Hurley and St. Anthony will take a 79-game winning streak into this weekend’s SNY Invitational at City College.
The Friars (14-0) won the SNY event in 2011.
The last time St. Anthony lost a game (in March 2010), the Yankees were the defending World Series champions and Tiger Woods was still married to Elin Nordegren.
In the above video, Hurley talks about the leadership of Temple-bound point guard Josh Brown, who’s averaging 14 points, seven rebounds and five assists.
Brown and the Friars will meet Wes Myers and three-time defending New York PSAL champ Boys & Girls tonight at 8 p.m.
Long Island Lutheran, led by UConn-bound forward Kentan Facey, meets junior point guard Shavar Newkirk and Cardinals Hayes in the first game at 6 p.m.
The winners will meet in Saturday’s 4 p.m. championship game, while the consolation game is at 2.
The games will be shown live on SNY.
For more Videos and Player Blogs on the SNY Invitational, click here.
Here’s a nice video feature by SNY’s Brian Custer on UConn-bound big man Kentan Facey, who leads Long Island Lutheran into the SNY Invitational this weekend.
Wesley Myers is a 6-foot-2 senior guard at Brooklyn Boys & Girls, the three-time New York PSAL champions and reigning New York State Federation champs. He and his teammates will face St. Anthony in the SNY Invitational on Friday at City College. Long Island Lutheran meets Cardinal Hayes in the other game Friday. The consolation game and championship will be played Saturday. Here’s his Player Blog.
What’s Up Basketball Family? It’s Wesley Myers here with the 411 on my senior season at the home of the NY State Champions.
It’s been a rather difficult first half of the season because we have a lot of newcomers who are inexperienced with winning and some of the returning players are now thrust into significant playing roles. To read more of this story, click here
Shavar Newkirk, one of the top point guards in the Class of 2014, will be playing in the SNY Invitational this weekend with Cardinal Hayes. They face Long Island Lutheran on Friday, with the winner advancing to Saturday’s championship against the St. Anthony-Boys & Girls winner. Here’s Shavar’s first blog entry:
Hello, basketball world. This your boy Shavar Newkirk.
I first want to thank Adam Zagoria for the opportunity for the basketball world to get to know me.
I’m from Harlem, New York. I go to Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx. I’m having a good season so far, averaging 17 points a game and my team is winning. (We hope for a City & State Championship.) Let’s Go Hayes! Lol.
I’m looking forward for my team to play in the SNY Invitational tournament on January 25 and 26, 2013, along with St. Anthony, Long Island Lutheran and Boys & Girls. To read more of this story, click here
After being notified Wednesday, two days prior to the start of the SNY Invitational, that Long Island University was no longer available to us, we worked through the night to come up with what we believed was a viable plan to move the event to St Raymond High School for Boys. Unfortunately, as the details related to the large expected crowd and complex logistics became more clear, it was determined that St. Raymond’s facility could not adequately accommodate an event of this size on 24 hours notice.
While we regret the outcome – we are committed to making sure the four schools and all of the deserving Tri-State Area students receive their promised funding and scholarships. We are disappointed this year’s tournament will not take place and apologize for any inconvenience this causes the teams, their fans and our corporate partners. We are committed to the SNY Invitational maintaining its position in the community and it is our intent to pick up where we left off in 2013.
NEW YORK – Bob Hurley didn’t get to 997 career victories without making some executive coaching decisions at tense moments.
With his team trailing by 12 points in the second half to Brooklyn Boys and Girls and on the brink of a major upset Saturday in the SNY Invitational championship game, Hurley made a critical call.
“We just went to what we call ‘Fist,’” Hurley said after St. Anthony, No. 2 in the USA Today Super 25, rallied to beat the No. 22 Kangaroos, 43-38, at LIU-Brooklyn for their first SNY crown and Hurley’s 998th career win.
NEW YORK – When Josh Brown first arrived at St. Anthony High School three years ago, he had never played point guard.
