How Alcoa turned TSSAA boys basketball state tournament into 'Dunk City'
Alcoa flushed eight dunks in a 44-point win over Fayette-Ware in the Class 3A TSSAA boys basketball state tournament quarterfinals. Here's how they did it.
MURFREESBORO — Alcoa didn’t go into the TSSAA boys basketball state tournament trying to do anything differently than it had all season. But it did make one big change. The Tornadoes unofficially renamed Murfreesboro “Dunk City.
” Alcoa junior Jamir Dean scored a game-high 18 points and added nine rebounds in a 77-33 victory over Fayette-Ware in the Class 3A quarterfinals on March 18. That included a violent dunk in the lane as Alcoa (22-13) finished with eight of them against the Wildcats (26-5). The Tornadoes tallied three dunks in the game’s first four minutes alone as they advanced to face the winner of Tullahoma and Tennessee in the state semifinals at 3:15 p.
m. ET March 20. “I think I had two-plus,” Dean said recounting his dunks.
“The dunks, it just like brings us up. We get hype when we play (like that). ” And it’s common for this group, Dean said, to get those types of baskets.