Sunday, December 5, 2010

POSTERIZED: High Point's Shay Shine puts the "Big" in "Big South"

It's entirely possible that a college basketball fan could go a full season without hearing or seeing a single mention about High Point University. The Big South school has only been a D-I member for 11 years. But Shay Shine is doing his best to make sure people take notice. (h/t The Dagger)



Not only is Mr. Shine's dunk easily the top candidate at this point for Dunk of the Year, it may also be the leader for Poster of the Year. Shine is listed at 6-foot-2 and yet he soared high above the 6-foot-10 victim, sophomore D.J. Cunningham.

There were two things that caught my attention:
1) this PbP call of this dunk was pretty, umm..., amateur (then again, we can't have Gus Johnson call every dunk, can we?)
2) The Big South Network does not provide a game-clock graphic (The dunk was a first-half buzzer-beater, but you can only tell because Shine and his teammates exit the court immediately following the dunk.)

Nonetheless, this was a serious dunk.

Was this as good as the rest of the dunks for 2010-2011?

POSTERIZED - Harrison Barnes, North Carolina
POSTERIZED - Kent Bazemore, Old Dominion
POSTERIZED - CJ Fair, Syracuse
POSTERIZED - LeBryan Nash
POSTERIZED - Rodney Williams, Minnesota
POSTERIZED - Travis Leslie, Georgia
POSTERIZED - Terrence Jones, Kentucky
POSTERIZED - Marcus Jordan, Central Florida
POSTERIZED - Lorenzo Brown, NC State
POSTERIZED - Tai Wesley, Utah State
POSTERIZED - Trent Lockett, Arizona State, and Derrick Williams, Arizona
POSTERIZED - Brandon Paul, Illinois
POSTERIZED - Jordan Hamilton, Texas

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