2019 NCAA Bracket

First Four: Dayton, Ohio

First Four, Tuesday, March 19

#16 Fairleigh Dickinson 82, #16 Prairie View A&M 76

#11 Belmont 81, #11 Temple 70

First Four, Wednesday, March 20

#16 North Dakota State 78, #16 NC Central 74

#11 Arizona State 74, #11 St. John’s 65

Round of 64

#16 Fairleigh Dickinson vs. #1 Gonzaga

#11 Belmont, vs. #6 Maryland 

#16 North Dakota State vs. #1 Duke

#11 Arizona State vs. Buffalo

John Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court

March Madness Unit

Google Slides

Part I: Families, Values, Virtues

Introduction: Reflections on Coach Wooden

“A man whose beliefs, teachings, and wisdom ultimately address how to bring out the very best in yourself and others in all areas of your life.” (page v, Bill Walsh)

“John Wooden taught us how to focus on one primary objective: be the best you can be in whatever endeavor you undertake.” (page vii, Bill Walton)

“you saw how true he was to doing things right, by thinking right.” (page vii, Bill Walton)

“The real competition he was preparing us for was life.” (page ix, Bill Walton)

“Coach taught us self-discipline, and was always his own best example.” (page xiii, Kareen Abdul-Jabbar)

“His thoughts and actions guided by enduring principles no less valid today than seventy years ago.” (page xiv, Bob Costas)

“In the course of a lifetime, almost everyone is positively affected by someone in a life-changing way.” (page xv, Swen Nater) Writing Prompt

“In every area of life he has pursued excellence and understanding.” (page xv, Swen Nater)

Preface: An Uncommon Man by Steve Jamison

He is the architect of perhaps the greatest championship record in all of sports: 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975… altogether ten of them (National Championships) in twelve years, including seven national championships in a row.” (page xxix)

“the only man elected to college basketball’s hall of fame as both a player and a coach.” (page xxx)

“Ultimately what John Wooden addresses is how to achieve peace of mind.” (page xxxi)

My Roots Go Deep in America

Nothing is Stronger than Gentleness

My Mother’s Great Example: “I learned from her (Wooden’s mom) what hard work really means and that it’s part of life. Hard work comes with the territory.” (page 5)

Real Coaches and Teachers: “Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating,” (page 5)

Strong Inside: “He was a strong in his moral principles, values, and ideals, and like any good father he wanted to instill them in his 4 sons.” (page 6)

Life’s Game Plan Starts Early: “He was a good man (Wooden’s dad), strong and positive, who wouldn’t speak ill of anyone.” (page 6)

Two Sets of Threes

Honesty

1. Don’t lie 
2. Don’t cheat
3. Don’t steal

Dealing with adversity

1. Don’t whine
2.  Don’t complain
3. Don’t make excuses

“Dad’s two sets of threes were a compass for me in trying to do the right thing and behaving in a proper manner.” (page 7)

Pride or Punishment: “I wanted to please him and not let him down with my behavior.”

The Gift of a Lifetime:

7 things to do

1. Be true to yourself
2. Help others Describe the most rewarding experience of community service. How old were you? What was the event? Why was it so rewarding?
3. Make each day your masterpiece
4. Drink deeply from good books, especially the Bible. List your favorite 3 books of all time. Select your favorite book and explain the reasons why you enjoyed this book.
5. Make friendship a fine art. List your closest friends. 
6. Build a shelter against a rainy day
7. Pray for guidance and count and give thanks for your blessings each day. (page 9)

Be True to Yourself: “You must have the courage to be true to yourself.” (page 10)

Help Others:

Make Each Day Your Masterpiece: “too often we get distracted by what is outside our control. Tomorrow is in large part determined by what you do today. So make today a masterpiece. You have control over that. You have to apply yourself each day to become a little better.” (page 11)

Drink deeply from good books, especially the Bible.

“It begins by trying to make each day count and knowing you can never make up for a lost day.” (page 12)

Make friendship a fine art: “You must work at friendship.” (page 12)

Build a shelter against a rainy day: 

Pray for guidance and count and give thanks for your blessings each day. “So often we fail to acknowledge what we have because we’re so concerned about what we want… A wise person once observed, ‘How much more pleasant this world would be if we magnified our blessings the way we magnify our disappointments.” (page 14)

Living Up To Dad’s Creed:

Give It Away to Get it Back:

Six of Life’s puzzlers (page 15)

• Why is it easier to criticize than compliment?
• Why is it easier to give others blame than to give them credit?
• Why is it that so many who are quick to make suggestions find it so difficult to make decisions?
• Why can’t we realize that it only weakens those we want to help when we do things for them that they should do for themselves?
• Why is it so much easier to allow emotions rather than reason to control our decisions?
• Why does the person with the least to say usually take the longest to say it?

Trusting Others:

Politeness and Courtesy: 

What You Are: “A favorite observation of my dad’s was the following: “Never believe you are better than anybody else, but remember that you’re just as good as everybody else.” That’s important: No better, but just as good!” (page 16)

Nellie and I Agreed to Be Agreeable:

Passion Isn’t Love:

Love and Marriage:

Marriage is Not Courtship:

When Marriage Weakens:

Team Wooden:

Family First:

Sports, Books, and Kids:

Parents, Children, and Goals: “A child must develop a love of academics early, and it usually doesn’t just happen.” (page 21)

Mentors:  “Mentors, adults who provide direction and a good example, are very important to youngsters.” (page 21)

A Parent Talks to a Child Before the 1st Game

You Are More Influential Than You Think:

Commend, Don’t Criticize: “One of the most powerful motivating tools you can use is a pat on the back.” (page 26)

Describe a time when you received a meaningful pat on the back. Describe the event, the person who gave the pat and the reason it was so significant.

Parenting and Coaching:

My Favorite Four-Letter Words: “Kids” and “Love”:“The greatest word in the dictionary is love…Remember that love is the most powerful medicine in the world.” (page 27) Wooden: Love Letters

Character (vs. Reputation)

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Character is what you really are. Reputation is what people say you are….. A person of character is trustworthy and honest, and for a dollar, he or she will give you a dollar. (page 28)

The Fundamental Goal (= Effort) “The goal in life is just the same as in basketball: make the effort to do the best you are capable of doing – in marriage, at your job, in the community, for your country. The effort is what counts in everything.” (page 28)

Perfection: “Do the best you can under the conditions that exist. That is what counts.” (page 29)

“I believe there is nothing wrong with the other fellow being better than you are if you’ve prepared and are functioning the way you try to prepare… But there is something wrong if you have failed to measure up to your ability because you haven’t prepared.” (page 29)

Priorities:

Learn Forever, Die Tomorrow: “You should learn as if you were going to live forever, and live as if you were going to die tomorrow.” (page 30)

Faults are Fine: “How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals you character.” (page 30)

Timeless Traits:

Giving and Receiving: “No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has bee the reward for what he gave.” Calvin Coolidge (page 31)

Are You Looking for the Right Things? “You often find what you are looking for.” (page 32)

Apples: 

Bringing Out the Best in People: “It always comes back to courtesy, politeness, and consideration.” (page 34)

Indiana and Basketball: 

5 More Puzzlers (page 35)

• Why is it so difficult to realize that others are more likely to listen to us if we first listen to them?
• Why is it so much easier to be negative than positive?
• Why is it so hard to motivate ourselves when we know that results only come from motivation?
• Why is it so difficult to say thank you to someone when those are two of our own favorite words to hear?
• Why do we dread adversity when we know that facing it is the only way to become stronger, smarter, better?

The Family Has Changed: 

The Greatest Joy: “It’s (happiness) in being at peace with yourself knowing that you are making the effort, the full effort, to do what is right.” (page 36)

Peer Pressure: “Be true to yourself. You know what’s right. Don’t let someone else decide for you.” (page 37)

Accepting Our Responsibility: 

A Lesson on Emotion and Language: “Control your temper and don’t use profanity.” (page 38)

A Reminder: Be True to Yourself “In life, we’re not always lucky enough to have someone help us with important decisions. Most of the time you have to figure it out for yourself and it may be confusing and difficult. You’ll usually do all right, though, if you have the courage to be true to yourself.” (page 40)

Make Fate Your Friend: 

5 More Puzzlers (page 42-43)

• Why is it so hard for so many to realize that the winners are usually the ones who work harder, work longer, and as a result, perform better?
• Why are there so many who want to build up the weak by tearing down the strong?
• Why is it so many of the nonattainers are quick to criticize, question, and belittle the attainers?
• Why is it so hard to understand that we cannot antagonize and positively influence at the same time?
• Why is it so much easier to complain about the things we do not have than to make the most of and appreciate the things we do have?

Young Folks, Old Folks: “Things turn out the best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.” (Page 42)6 Ways to Bring Out the

Best in People

1. Keep courtesy and consideration for others foremost in your mind, at home and away.

1. Try to have fun without being funny.

1. While you can’t control what happens to you, you can control how you react. Make good manners an automatic reaction.

1. Seek individual opportunities to offer a genuine compliment.

1. Remember that sincerity, optimism, and enthusiasm are more welcome than sarcasm, pessimism, and laziness.

1. Laugh with others, never at them.  (page 44)

Start on the section of competition and sports

Success, Achievement, Competition

“Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.” Albert Einstein.

Mr. Webster’s Definition of Success – How would YOU define success

Joshua Wooden’s Definition of Success

“I should never try to be better than someone else…”But Johnny, never cease to be the best you can be. That is under your control. The other isn’t.” (p. 52)

“You do have control of yourself and the effort you give toward brining out the best in whatever you’re doing.” (p. 52)

“Try your hardest in all ways and you are a success. Period. Do less than that and you have failed to one degree or another.” (p.52)

Preparation is the Prize

“The journey is better than the Inn.” – Cervantes

“Your journey is the important thing. A score, a trophy, a ribbon is simply the inn.” (p. 53)

A Successful Journey is the Destination

“The preparation is where success is truly found.” (p. 52)

Failures and Mistakes

“You never fail if you know in your heart that you did the best of which you are capable. I did my best. That is all I could do.” (p. 55)

“I also know that only one person on earth knows if you made your best effort: not your coach, not your employer, not your husband or wife, boyfriend or girlfriend, brother or sister. The only person who knows is you. You can fool everybody else.” (p. 55)

The Desire to Win

Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct is: Did I make my best effort? That’s what matters. The rest of it just gets in the way.” (p. 56)

The Opinion of Others

“Do not be too concerned about what others may think of you. Be very concerned about what you think of yourself.” (p. 58)

Pressure

“The only pressure that amounts to a hill of beans is the pressure you put on yourself.” (p. 58)

Details create success  

“Question: How can I become an optimist?

Answer: Proper preparation and attention to details.” (p. 60)

“When you see a successful individual, a champion, a “winner,” you can be very sure that you are looking at an individual who pays attention to the perfection of minor details.” (p. 63)  

Booknotes Doc

Part I: Families, Values, Virtues (page 1)

Part II: Success, Achievement, Competition (page 49)

Part III: Coaching, Teaching, Leading (page 109)

Part IV: Putting It All Together (page 165

2019

Mens:

#13 Northeastern vs. #4 Kansas

Yale #13 vs. #4 LSU

Vermont #13 vs. #4 Florida State

Billy Curley Night

March Lessons

Come on. You have never heard of the Pi Day Challenge?

Do you know Mr. Plummer?

Do you know? Do you know? Do you know? (Mars Blackmon & Hoop Dreams)

That Mr. Plummer is graduated from HHS? That he was a student-athlete? That is was a soccer coach and softball coach? He is the man, the myth, the legend.

Can you work as a team to reach genius status?

We will soon find out? Get ready. Add, subtract, divide, and think!

Hall of Fame

Pi Day Genius Board

Hoop Dreams: This is an ABSOLUTELY fantastic sports documentary. We will watch it as part of our March Madness Unit.

Assessments: Writing prompts, actively watching, class discussion.

Hoop Dreams: Compare & Contrast

Hoop Dreams DVD

Hoop Dreams Lessons

Hoop Dreams: A Sports Documentary Classic

Hoop Dreams Writing Prompts

Hoop Dreams Unit

For the class of 2019, a compare and contrast worksheet (viewing guide) was added. It is a GREAT way to keep the students engaged. The teacher will tell the class the notes to write. The DVD can be stopped for class discussion and to highlight a point.

Class of 2019

Donovan – Don’t get pinned vs. Pembroke.

Rugby State Championship 2016: Wheeler out, down and come back

Relief Pitcher: Legion 0 outs, bottom of 7th, 2 runners on up 1 run. 3 pitches, 3 popups.

March Lessons / March Senior Year

Boys Basketball: EMass Finals 2016 Beat Watertown

Class 2019

Buck and warmups

Switching pants after a Nacho Spill Teike switches with Nick

Boys Hockey

2017 State Finals Swampscott 4 -2

St. Patrick’s Day Parade

2015 State Championship Alqonquin

4th Grade Hanover vs. Hanover meeting Tuuka Rask Zig techs (Sole Man)

Locker Room

Kelly Olynx Game 7 27 points

IT 52 points (Isaiah Thomas)

Devon Booker 70 Points (Wes & Cole)

Create a google doc Mic’ed up.

March My Senior Year (page 147 – 162)

Spring Training: Red Sox vs. Boston College Spring Training ((page 147 – 148)

• Concussions / Hit By a Pitch

Eastern Massachusetts Finals at the Boston Garden (pages 148 – 149):

• Last Game: List your last game of the season, the opponent, and the results.
• Boston Garden Memories: (High School if Possible) Write down 10-15 memories of the Boston Garden. Hanover High teams have played here in the past. Write the age of your experience and your memories.

Pressure Free Throws (page 151): Describe the most pressured situation you or your team has been a part of. Describe it in detail.  Pressure Situations: Student Examples & Class discussion.

Local Newspapers (Wicked Local):

“doofus dad” with a mini-cam. (page 151)

“Having a catch” / one-on-one basketball (pages 151 & 152)

The Great Santini (Hoop Dreams “Great Santini” Scene)

The Legacy (page 152)

Fake IDs (page 152)

Any Regrets (page 153)

Pets & Childhood diseases (pages 153 – 154)

State Championship (Saturday March 18, 2006) (page 155 – 156)

Humiliation

Spring Tryouts (page 156)

Coach (page 156)

Legion teammates (page 156)

A keen student of the teenage mind (page 157)

Waiting for letters (page 157)

rules violations for player parents. (page 161)

Bull Durham (page 161)