San Diego State's Dwayne Polee II led Westchester to a 2009-10 California state title along with teammate Jordin Mayes, now at Arizona. The two players will now face each other in the Sweet 16.
Photo by David Hood
Once friends. Now combatants.
This year's NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 will feature players who were once high school teammates doing battle against each other with national title hopes hanging in the balance.
There are also several former high school teammates who could potentially meet up as the tournament goes along.
On the other hand, there are also plenty of sets of high school teammates who decided to remain teammates by attending the same college. Louisville has players that are very familiar with each other, as four players came from Hargrave Military Academy (Chatham, Va.).
This year's Sweet 16 is also a family affair, as four sets of brothers will compete, including three sets of twins (Kentucky's Aaron and Andrew Harrison, UCLA's Travis and David Wear and Stanford's Marcus and Malcolm Allen).
Check out the lists below to see which sets of teammates could be potential opponents, and which could be cutting down the nets together this weekend.
Potential opponents from the same high school
Benet
Academy (Lisle, Ill.)Eddie
Eshoo and Bobby Wehrli (Dayton) vs. Frank Kaminsky
(Wisconsin)
Potential matchup: Championship gameBrewster
Academy (Wolfeboro,
N.H.)Eli Carter (Florida)
vs. Mitch McGary (Michigan)
Potential matchup:
Championship game
Findlay
Prep (Henderson,
Nev.)Brandon Ashley, Findlay Prep (2012)
Photo by Lonnie Webb
Brandon Ashley and Nick
Johnson (Arizona) vs. Winston Shepard (San Diego
State)
Matchup: Sweet
16Ashley/Johnson (Arizona) vs. Allerick
Freeman (Baylor)
Potential matchup: Elite Eight
Ashley/Johnson (Arizona) or Freeman
(Baylor) vs. Gavin Schilling (Michigan
State)
Potential matchup: Championship game
Hamilton
Southeastern (Fishers,
Ind.)Zak Irvin (Michigan) vs.
Gary Harris (Michigan State)
Potential matchup:
Championship game
IMG
Academy (Bradenton,
Fla.)Alex Gavrilovic (Dayton)
vs. Dwight Powell (Stanford)
Matchup: Sweet
16
Mangok Mathiang (Louisville) vs. DeAndre Daniels (UConn)
Potential matchup: Final Four
Gavrilovic (Dayton) or Powell (Stanford)
vs. Mathiang (Louisville) or Daniels (UConn)
Potential matchup:
Championship gameLexington
Catholic (Ky.)Vee
Sanford (Dayton) vs. Dillon Avare
(Louisville)
Potential Matchup: Championship game
Mater
Dei (Santa Ana, Calif.)Drew
Mellon (Arizona) vs. Gary Franklin (Baylor)
Potentialm atchup: Elite Eight
David Brown, David
Wear and Travis Wear (UCLA) vs. Andy Brown
(Stanford)
Potential matchup: Elite
EightA. Brown (Stanford) or D.
Brown/Wear/Wear (UCLA) vs. Mellon (Arizona) or Franklin
(Baylor)
Potential matchup: Championship game
Montrose
Christian (Rockville,
Md.)Ish Wainright (Baylor)
vs. Justin Anderson (Virginia)
Potential matchup:
Championship game
Montverde
Academy (Fla.)Nik Stauskas, St. Mark's (2010)
Photo by Jim Redman
Michael Frazier II and
Kasey Hill (Florida) vs. Dakari Johnson
(Kentucky)
Potential matchup: Championship gamePrestonwood
Christian (Plano, Texas)Zach
Peters (Arizona) vs. Julius Randle
(Kentucky)
Potential matchup: Championship gameSouth
Kent School (Conn.)Chris Johnson (Arizona)
vs. Russ Smith (Louisville)
Potential matchup: Final
FourSt.
Mark's (Southborough,
Mass.)Kaleb Tarczewski
(Arizona) vs. Nik Stauskas (Michigan)
Potential matchup: Final Four
Tarczewski (Arizona) or
Stauskas (Michigan) vs. Alex Murphy
(Florida)
Potential matchup: Championship game
Westchester
(Los Angeles)Jordin Mayes
(Arizona) vs. Dwayne Polee II (San Diego
State)
Matchup: Sweet
16Sweet 16 teammates from the same high school
ArizonaNick
Johnson, Brandon Ashley,
Findlay
Prep (Henderson, Nev.)Trey Mason, Jacob Hazzard,
Loyola
(Los Angeles)DaytonBobby
Wehrli, Eddie Eshoo,
Benet
Academy (Lisle, Ill.) Devon Scott, Jalen
Robinson,
Northland
(Columbus, Ohio)FloridaDakarai Allen, Sheldon (2012)
Photo by Ralph Thompson
Kasey Hill,
Michael Frazier II,
Montverde
Academy (Fla.)KentuckyAndrew
Harrison, Aaron Harrison,
Fort
Bend Travis (Richmond, Texas)Tod Lanter, E.J.
Floreal,
Paul
Laurence Dunbar (Lexington, Ky.)LouisvilleLuke Hancock, Terry
Rozier, Anton Gill, Montrezl Harrell,
Hargrave
Military Academy (Chatham, Va.)San Diego
StateD'Erryl Williams, Dakarai Allen,
Sheldon
(Sacramento, Calif.)StanfordMarcus
Allen, Malcolm Allen,
Centennial
(Las Vegas)UCLAKory Alford,
Bryce Alford,
La
Cueva (Albuquerque, N.M.)Travis Wear, David Wear,
David Brown,
Mater
Dei (Santa Ana, Calif.)VirginiaAkil
Mitchell, Anthony Gill,
Charlotte
Christian (N.C.)