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On Monday, Feb 26, 2024, the Pershing Varsity Boys Basketball team won their MHSAA Division 2, District 59 at Detroit Pershing game against Hazel Park High School by a score of 67-65.
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Jul 13, 2017 · Detroit high school basketball was so good in 1967, that Pershing did not even win its own league championship. That honor went to the Northwestern Colts, led by arguably the best ever to walk the mean streets of Detroit, Curtis Jones, future Major League Baseball player John Mayberry, and Lamont King.
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“It was shortly after the race riots of 1943 that Warren Bow, then the superintendent of schools, lured Robinson from DuSable High of Chicago,” stated veteran sportswriter Hal Schram of the Detroit Free Pressyears later. With the arrival of the 1969-70 season, Robinson had spent the previous 26 years as coach in Detroit, arriving at Detroit Miller ...
While, as usual, four basketball teams would finish 1970 as Finals champs, Class A was of particular interest to many around the state. The classification was packed with court talent. While the senior class included players of wide-ranging skills, a collection of incredible underclassmen would have the most impact on the postseason. Based on Schra...
The 1970 tournament would mark the end of a three-week postseason format that had been in place since Michigan State’s Jenison Field House had opened in 1940. Beginning the following March, the playoffs would expand to a four-week schedule with the Semifinals and Final contests played over separate weekends. In addition, the annual championship gam...
The Class A casualties to favorites during the opening week of play were minimal. Seaholm, with two regular-season defeats – both to unbeaten Ferndale – departed in its playoff opener against Birmingham Groves. Fouls and turnovers nearly cost Ferndale its tournament life in its opener against Oak Park. With stars Tyrone Lewis and Billy Screws both ...
The Regional round brought much more excitement. Ferndale escaped the Regional Semifinal “with a heart-pounding 66-64 victory” over Detroit Cooley. The Cardinals, 7-4 on the regular season, used their height advantage to create problems for Ferndale. Deadlocked at the end of both the first and second quarters, the Eagles led by 10 late in the fourt...
Upwards of 75,000 fans were expected to witness the four classes of MHSAA Quarterfinals hosted at 14 centers around the state. But without question, Crisler Arena was the place to be on that Wednesday night. The lone site with two Class A contests, Pershing would face Fordson in the 4:30 opener. The dream matchup between Pontiac Central and Detroit...
“They’re calling this State Tournament the last of the great extravaganzas,” wrote Free Presssports editor and columnist Joe Falls. “It’s the last time they’re having this two-day carnival in Jenison Fieldhouse. Next year they’re changing the format, and the site. … They’re spreading the tournament over four weeks instead of three and there is goin...
Three of the four Class A semifinalists making the trip to Jenison – Pershing, Midland and Garden City West – were unexpected guests. “Robinson’s Pershing team and its semifinal opponent, Midland, both qualify as ‘Cinderella’ teams,” wrote John Hill of the State Journalin his tourney preview. The Chemics had also been beaten four times during the r...
“Pershing High basketball squad staged one of the greatest upsets in Michigan high school tournament history here Saturday night before a steaming, screaming crowd of over 12,000 spectators in Jenison Field house,” exclaimed Schram in the Sunday paper. “The Doughboys, loser of four games during the regular season, knocked off previously unbeaten Po...
The team chose to celebrate the title at a Big Boy restaurant. Then Robinson departed for Normal, Ill., appearing before the local Jaycees that Monday night. “I’m glad the opportunity came along,” Robinson said before his departure. “I just wish it had come along in Michigan. I never was offered a college job here.” Robinson had bid for several col...
Apr 9, 2024 · The former Detroit Pershing High School and University of Michigan basketball star was announced on Monday as the new varsity boys’ basketball head coach at Pershing. Sims, 36, called it a...
Detroit Pershing’s title teams of 1967 and 1970 left lasting impressions on the Michigan prep basketball scene; Will Robinson left even more of an impact on anyone who laced up a pair of sneakers for the veteran coach.
Mar 1, 2024 · Pershing High School. View the 23-24 Pershing varsity basketball team schedule.
Jul 25, 2017 · Coach Will Robinson not only lead the 1967 Pershing High School men’s basketball team to a championship for the first time in 37 years, but he also lead basketball teams in Detroit’s Black Bottom neighborhood to championships after the 1943 race riots in the city.
