No Shot Clock

No Shot Clock, Ep. 159: The case for No. 1, breaking down the top teams

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Show Notes

Michael O'Brien and Joe Henricksen's weekly look at Illinois high school basketball. In this week's episode, we each give our two takes and then we break down the eight teams that have a case to make to be ranked No. 1 so far this season. It's been an interesting three weeks and things are wide open right now.

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