Courtland wins Group AA, Division 4 basketball title

I headed down to Richmond yesterday to cover Courtland High School take on Salem in the Group AA Division 4 state title game at Virginia Commonwealth University. Usually these state games make for compelling action and more importantly, reaction pictures. Yesterday, not so much. Courtland pretty much manhandled the Spartans all game long. Plus they started at 9:45pm, adding an undercurrent of stress to make the paper’s deadlines. I got some halfway decent action but the reaction was fairly muted even though it was the program’s first-ever state title. The outcome was apparent by the end of the first half.Here are a few favorites: