Let’s just call her “Miss Smith,” which is how Kansas point guard Frank Mason refers to his high school government teacher.
After Mason had committed to Towson, as he was in the process of becoming the No. 2 scorer in the Petersburg (Va.) High basketball history, after he was zeroing in on finishing his high school career and moving on … “Miss Smith” intervened.
She gave him a failing grade in a government class and it threw Mason’s life into disarray.
He wasn’t going to Towson after all. He was going to prep school in Woodstock, Va.