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Birdfriend72 said:
I remember Sean and Shawn Wightman back in the late 80's. I don't think they ever made it campus. They transferred to Western Michigan with Donewald.
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A Pronounced Pair
There may be more sets of twins in the women's game (page 34) than in the men's these days, but it's hard to believe that any of them has to deal with more confusion than identical twins Shawn and Sean Wightman, 6' 6" senior forwards at Western Michigan. Shawn and Sean? We'll let their mother, Kaye, explain.
"I didn't know I was going to have twins," she says. "I was told I was going to have one really big baby. We had the name Shawn picked out, so when the first one was born, we knew he would be Shawn. Then the nurse said, 'Doctor, come back, there's another one.' When they wanted a name for the other birth certificate, all I could think of was Sean. But we didn't want them to have the same name, so we decided Sean would be pronounced Seen. Does that make sense?"
"It's caused a problem every day of my life," says Sean, laughing. "When someone says, 'Hi, Shawn,' to me, I have to figure out whether the person thinks I'm my brother or knows I'm me and just doesn't know how to pronounce my name. Most of the time people just say, 'Hi, Twin.' "

Is there a way to tell the two apart? "Yeah, but we'd have to take our clothes off," says Sean.
Or you can watch a Western Michigan game. Sean is the Broncos' top scorer (14.8 points per game at week's end), and last season he led the country in three-point shooting (.632 percentage). Shawn plays less than five minutes a game.
The twins' parents have always been able to tell them apart. Says Sean, "Our mother says there's a secret: My left ear has a wrinkle, and Shawn's right ear has one. Or maybe it's the other way around. Personally I think she might have gotten it backward in the hospital, which means there's a possibility I'm him and he's me."
TIP-INS
At week's end, coach Jim Phelan of Mount St. Mary's had won 699 games in his 39-year career. Only two active coaches, Clarence (Big House) Gaines of Winston-Salem and Dean Smith of North Carolina, are in the 700 club.... An iron-man award goes to the Drake stat crew that worked the men's team's 90-85 overtime victory over Creighton last Saturday afternoon and the women's 112-106 win over Northern Iowa in four overtimes that night. The latter tied the NCAA record for longest women's game. Northern Iowa's Ann Miller, who scored 37 points, was the only player to play all 60 minutes.
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BOB DONNAN
CHRIS STREET: As a player and as a young man, Street touched people throughout Iowa and the college basketball world.
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BRIAN TIRPAK
Shawn (left) and Sean are identical in many ways but not in pronunciation or on the court.

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK​

Men
UNLV's J.R. Rider, a senior swing-man, scored 78 points, grabbed 16 rebounds and had seven assists to lead the Rebels to wins over Texas A&M and Georgetown.
Women
Tonya Sampson, a junior guard at North Carolina, contributed 91 points, 28 rebounds and nine steals as the Tar Heels defeated Duke, Florida State and Maryland.
Small Colleges
Junior center Wayne Robertson of Division II New Hampshire College averaged 29 points and 19 rebounds against Bridgeport, Keene State and Colby-Sawyer.

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April 2021 Table of Contents​


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MadBird said:
Coach Norman Dale : "If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your potential, to be the best that you can be, I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book we're gonna be winners."
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I’m willing to bet if Norman Dale had ten straight years of garbage basketball, that narrative changes…
 
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CaliRdBrd said:
I’m still trying find out what other schools were interested. Anyone know?
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According to their twitters, Takai had offers from University of Mt. Olive, NC A&T, and SAU (not sure what the full name is). Tajuan had offers from University of Mt. Olive and SAU.

Here is a snip from an older article (2019):
"Tajuan and Takai Simpkins
His Born Ready Elite teammates twins 2022 PG 6-3 160lbs Takai and Tajuan Simpkins Banneker HS (NY) after a great showcase on the road now hold interest from Georgia, Maryland, Rider, Massachusetts, St Francis (NY), Manhattan and Fordham."

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Dmills said:
According to their twitters, Takai had offers from University of Mt. Olive, NC A&T, and SAU (not sure what the full name is). Tajuan had offers from University of Mt. Olive and SAU.

Here is a snip from an older article (2019):
"Tajuan and Takai Simpkins
His Born Ready Elite teammates twins 2022 PG 6-3 160lbs Takai and Tajuan Simpkins Banneker HS (NY) after a great showcase on the road now hold interest from Georgia, Maryland, Rider, Massachusetts, St Francis (NY), Manhattan and Fordham."

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Thank you. I couldn’t find anything
 
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