In urban and rural high schools throughout Illinois, basketball is a Friday night ritual, and state tournaments attract fanatical fans by the thousands. Author of the book Sweet Charlie, Dike, Cazzie, and Bobby Joe, veteran high school basketball reporter Taylor Bell discusses the best basketball teams, coaches, players, games, and events from the 1940s through the 1990s.

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