“He is obsessed,” she said, “with the Warriors.”
In his grand experiment to turn his team into the junior college version of the Golden State Warriors — yes, those Warriors — Green coached
the South Plains Texans to a 27-0 record ahead of their regular-season finale on Thursday night against Western Texas College.
“They’re the best team in the country,” Brian Lohrey, the coach at New Mexico Junior College, said after
watching South Plains drain 14 of 25 3-pointers in a 26-point win against his team last month.
South Plains, the top-ranked junior college team in the country, was averaging 98
points a game, shooting 52.1 percent from the field and making 11.6 3-pointers.
Jordan Brangers, the starting shooting guard at South Plains, was averaging 21.9 points a game
and shooting 49.2 percent from the 3-point line ahead of Thursday’s contest.
By SCOTT CACCIOLAMARCH 2, 2017
— Steve Green, the men’s basketball coach at South Plains College, was recovering from
an up-and-down season last summer when he decided he needed to make a change.