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Central boys basketball off to strong start
New roster, senior leader have Bulldogs 3-0 entering region play
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Forsyth Central sophomore Eli Brown gets set to shoot during practice Monday. The guard is averaging a team-high 15.7 points per game. - photo by Andrew Hirsh
When the Forsyth Central boys basketball team last won a state tournament game, way back in 1980, a teenage Michael Jordan was playing high school ball up in Wilmington, N.C. At the time, Georgia’s own Jimmy Carter was our president, Pink Floyd and Queen dominated the radio airwaves and the world had just discovered that Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker’s father. Since then, Central has only qualified for the playoffs twice, doing so in 1997 and 2001. Indeed, the Bulldogs have been struggling for quite a while, and last year’s 7-18 record didn’t inspire much confidence moving forward.