Tomorrow night starts what we call March Madness, college basketball playoffs for the national championship, and 65 college teams throughout the country will start competing tomorrow night. But there is one team that won't be there. And probably those 65 teams are glad this team is not there. It is not a college team. It is a high school team, and they are from Jack Yates Senior High School in Houston, Texas. They are now ranked the number one high school basketball team in the United States by USA Today and Rivals.com. The Jack Yates Lions have won 58 consecutive basketball games in a row, going since last year, and two Texas State championships in 4A basketball. They have defeated their opponents by an awesome amount of points. They have won games by 88 points, 90 points, 98 points, 99 points, 115 points, and 135 points against the opposition. And that is just the margin of victory in those games. In one game this year, on January 5, 2010, they scored 170 points in a high school basketball game, breaking the national record.
Ted Poe: “Tomorrow night starts what we call March Madness, college basketball playoffs for the national championship, and 65…”
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Speaker highlights the achievements of the Jack Yates Senior High School basketball team.
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