Sakuragaoka Gakuen High School earned its first medal in the Winter Cup boys competition late last month.
The Aichi Prefecture school used a simple offensive strategy to accomplish that goal: Give the ball to scoring machine Keisei Tominaga.
It proved to be the proper plan. The senior shooting guard averaged 39.8 points in his team¡¯s six games at the annual national high school tournament, which is officially called the All-Japan Championship.
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