Court of Last Resort

When there's no place else, here's where basketball players go

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"None of 'em will be rocket scientists, but neither will the president of this college," says Northland's president Vasher.

Tyrone Brannen is from a broken home in Savannah, Georgia. "I come up too hard to die of drugs," he says.

The coach pronounces it OH-dip-us, making the Greek sound like a point guard out of East Texas.

Welcome to the lowest of college basketball's minor leagues. Welcome to Northland Pioneer College.

There's no ivy growing on the double-wide trailers that serve as classrooms at the Holbrook campus.

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