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JOHN MARSHALL

Coach: Ty White

Last season: 24-4, 16-0

Key players: G Gee Dean, 6-0, Jr.; F Dominique Terry, 6-4, Sr.

Outlook: The Justices, who lost to Henrico in the Central Region semifinals last year, lose All-Metro first-teamer Jestin Lewis and second-teamer Willie Mangum. Also gone is 6-7 post player Marshall Mundin. But Dean, who impressed as a sophomore, fills the gap as a shooter, and Terry will continue to provide influence in the paint. Brian White, a Citadel pledge who joins the team from SportsQuest, will be a big addition.

John Marshall First Game

John Marshall vs Highland Springs 96 - 100

John Marshall never had the lead during this game although they came up from 10 points by the end of the first quarter and again after the half, but could not seem to overcome.  Although John Marshall couldn't pull off a win they fought to the end and earned 7 points in the last 2 minutes of the fourth quarter.  Brian White finished the game with 34 points.

Brian White Commits to The Citadel

 November 8, 2012 - VirginiaPreps.com

John Marshall 6-foot-7 forward Brian White will be one of the better basketball players in the state of Virginia at the Group AAA level this winter. Less than a month before the start of his senior season, White decided to pull the trigger and give a verbal commitment to play his College Basketball in the Southern Conference at The Citadel, coached by Chuck Driesell, son of coaching legend Lefty Driesell.

White selected the Bulldogs over offers from Appalachian State, Austin Peay, Citadel, Duquesne, North Carolina A&T and UNC Greensboro.

"What made me choose The Citadel were the great coaches, who came to multiple of my practices. That showed they really wanted me and cared about me. The whole coaching staff wanted me from day one and said that I was their #1 guy. Also, the academics were like no other school I visited," White told VirginiaPreps.com.

"The coaches like that I am a multi-skilled guy who can post up, shoot the ball, handle it and most important a great teammate and defender. I see myself playing the '3' for my long-term career, but I also can step in and play the '4' if they need me to do that with my versatility."

Coachable with a great work ethic and underrated skill-set, White is a well-rounded forward with the ability to run the floor effectively, score close to or away from the basket and crashes the glass.

"I think Brian has a tremendous upside and hasn't even peaked yet. He's one of those kids because he's versatile and can play multiple positions will be really hard to guard. [They're] going to get a better person than a player and I really think he's a good player as well," noted John Marshall Head Basketball Coach Ty White, who also coached Brian in AAU for Team Loaded.

"He stretches the defense. Rebounding-wise, he's pretty good as well. He has the ability to play both inside and outside, which makes him hard to guard."

The Citadel, a military school located in Charleston, South Carolina, has been able to come up to Virginia and mine up a couple of players lately. Nansemond River guard Ashton Moore averaged 7.4 points per game last season for the Bulldogs as a true freshman. Miller School product Janeil Jenkins is about to embark on his freshman year there as well.

"It did help me a lot that a few guys from Virginia were on the team because I kept in contact with them and asked questions on their perspective of The Citadel," Brian admitted.

The Citadel finished 6-24 overall last year and 3-15 in conference play. Their last winning season came in 2008-09 when they finished 20-13 overall.

White spent the last two years playing at SportsQuest Academy and Matoaca. This will be his first and only season at John Marshall, and he'd like to accomplish some things while there before heading off to the next level.

Recently, the Justices won the Hampton Roads Fall League, edging Green Run in double-overtime. They figure to be one of the top contenders in the always competitive Central Region.

"My goals for my upcoming season are to first lead my High School team to a State Championship, which John Marshall hasn't done in years," White pointed out. "I'd also like to become State Player of the Year."

John Marshall Justices win Fall League Championship

November 13, 2012 - VirginiaPreps.com

Justice was served on Wednesday nights in the Hampton Roads Fall League at the Boo Williams Sportsplex. The John Marshall Justices from the Central Region made the weekly trek in September and October to take on some of the best competition the Eastern Region has to offer and was the last one standing out of 16 teams, winning 17 of the 18 games they played.

John Marshall defeated Green Run 52-48 in double-overtime of the Fall League Championship. They trailed the entire game until Brian White's basket at the buzzer tied the score and forced overtime. White hit the game-winning basket in the semifinals of the Fall League playoffs to help the Justices edge King's Fork, 61-59.

"It's a big sacrifice that our parents, our players and our coaches made every single week, but at the end of the day, it's worth it," said John Marshall Fall League Coach Michael Blackwell. "We did it as a team, as a unit. Our key thing every single day and every single week is to stay hungry. You never get full off of any game, any quarter and as long as this team stays hungry, we're going to position ourselves to accomplish our goal at the end of the day."

White led the way in the Championship with 18 points and 11 rebounds. To go with White's scoring inside and outside the paint as well as his rebounding, the Justices got stellar guard play throughout, most notably from seniors Dominique Terry and Gee Dean-McBride. Terry provided them with perimeter shooting, while Dean-McBride pushed the ball up the court and got into the teeth of the defense.

Giving the Stallions a lift in the front-court was freshman Sterling Carrington with nine points as he battled a D-1 talent in White (Citadel commit) quite well for someone who has yet to play a game on the varsity level.

Even after the senior trio of White, Dean-McBride and Terry that are the headliners for John Marshall, they have a solid rotation of underclassmen that will play vital roles for them this year and in the future. They include 6-foot-7 sophomore Nate Williams, junior guard Quaman Burton, sophomore guard Taqqi Muhammad and freshman guard Jeremy Sheppard.

 

Matthew Hatfield
VirginiaPreps.com Basketball Analyst

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