Before starring at Houston, Jamal Shead became the fifth-ranked recruit in Texas in the Class of 2020 thanks to his much-improved jump shot, his dynamic...
It was a summer AAU game in 2018 against Tyrese Maxey that helped Shead get the attention of college coaches.
“I told him you can come over here and be one of the best players in our district, but if you want to be able to take your game to the next level, you’ve got to be able to shoot the long ball,” said Swain, who is now the athletic director for Manor ISD. “He pretty much committed from March until October, November to getting in the gym to shoot.”That included getting up 500 shots a day three or four times a week.
Houston and Gonzaga are the only schools in the nation that have played in the Sweet 16 each of the last five years, and Houston is trying to reach the Final Four for the second time since Shead has been there. The Cougars are 125-18 since Shead arrived, making him part of the winningest four-year class in school history, and this season Shead became the first player in Big 12 history to be named the conference’s Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year in the same season.
“You couldn’t ask for a better person,” Swain said. “ he was the guy in tryouts who was cheering on the kids that probably weren’t going to make the team, and when we were doing conditioning and a kid couldn’t finish, he was cheering them on. He does his annual camp here at Manor, free for all kids, and he started a food program for the district where the kids were able to get a third meal of the day for free.
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