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BV Northwest’s Ed Fritz coaches KU prospects, others to victory in McDonald’s game

Blue Valley Northwest’s Ed Fritz faced one of the biggest challenges of his coaching career this week at McDonald’s All-America camp in Atlanta.

That is … how to take 11 of the country’s top high school players and make sure they play team basketball and winning basketball — instead of settling for breakaway dunks and NBA three-pointers — for all to see on ESPN2.

“I tried to stress to the kids usually the MVP of the game is off the winning team and that it’s a lot more fun to play team basketball than to shoot all the time off the first pass.