The Washington Post this morning has an article in the sports section about Morgan Wootten, basketball coach at local high school DeMatha. He’s retiring. He coached 46 seasons and has an amazing record of 1,274 wins to 192 losses. Wow.
Wootten’s most famous victory, which established the school’s national reputation and brought wide attention to high school sports in general, came in 1965, when DeMatha broke the 71-game winning streak of New York’s Power Memorial, led by the young sensation Lew Alcindor, later Abdul-Jabbar.