The Mead Mavericks pulled together Sunday night in honor of a teammate who couldn’t be on the floor with them, winning their first boys basketball state title since 1957 against the Montrose Indians, 68-44.
Mead sophomore shooting guard Nick Basson woke up on the Friday morning of March 12 with difficulty focusing, facial numbness and trouble speaking.
Basson, the Mavericks’ third-leading scorer, just nine days before the Class 4A basketball state championship game, suffered a stroke.
He survived, cheering on his teammates from the Mead bench inside Broadmoor World Arena.
“It shook everybody, and it’s still kind of hard to believe, but I think it definitely made us tighter when we found out he was going to be OK,” Mead coach Darin Reese said. “It jelled the guys even more. That was definitely motivation.”
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