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Freshman guard Tyshawn Taylor has known nothing but winning during his basketball career. During his senior year at St. Anthony High School in Jersey City, N.J., his team went 32-0, won the state championship and finished with a No.1 national ranking in the USA Today and ESPN polls.
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Thomas starts trend of Jersey Jayhawks
BY RUSTIN DODD
dodd@kansan.com
Kansas coach Bill Self ventured from the fruited plains and found four top prep players along the Jersey turnpike.
Incoming guard Tyshawn Taylor played at St. Anthony in Jersey City, NJ, and incoming forwards Marcus and Markieff Morris — who actually
Beware Kansas fans, the bad puns involving the state of New Jersey are coming shortly. That's what happens when four of the seven newcomers to the Kansas basketball program played their high school basketball in the Garden State.
SEE THOMAS ON PAGE 45
New recruit Taylor rides victory streak
BY JESSE TEMPLE jtemple@kansan.com
Tyshawn Taylor reaches back into his basketball-playing memory bank, searching for an answer.
Asked to name the last time he played on a losing basketball team, the University's newest point guard prospect is coming up blank.
No season stands out during his elementary school days in Hoboken, N.J. His junior high teams in Clearwater, Fla. were pretty good,
too.
He didn't lose much with the Westchester Hawks, his AAU team in high school. Defeat rarely occurred when he played for St. Anthony High School in New Jersey — perhaps the winningest program in high school basketball history.
He settles on his freshman year in high school, before he moved back to New Jersey. At the time, Taylor was attending Countryside High School
SEE TAYLOR ON PAGE 45
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