Perfect Tenth: Blue Pride still resonates decade after ‘mystical’ state title run
Even 10 years later, it still doesn’t quite make sense.
How could a team with nine players from a tiny Downtown private school, only eight of whom actually made the trip to the New York Federation Basketball Championships in Glens Falls, N.Y., have defied all odds to capture a coveted Class C State title by knocking off one heavy favorite after another?
“It was mystical,” former Brooklyn Friends School head basketball coach Vladimir Malukoff explained to the Eagle on Saturday night during the team’s 10th anniversary celebration on Pearl Street. “They just had a great sprit and togetherness that year.”