GREENVILLE, S.C.
A package with a VHS video-tape arrived in the Winthrop University basketball office in Rock Hill, S.C., mailed from New Zealand with the blind hope that someone will watch and fall in love with a basketball recruit.
This love story seemed destined to stall before coaches had a chance to watch one shot, hit rewind, and watch again.
"That video-tape, at the time, was in a New Zealand format that you couldn't play in America," said Damon Stephenson, a former Winthrop assistant. "I'm telling you right now, I would have thrown it out.