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Former Zion-Benton High and Waukegan High girls basketball star Bianca Jarrett has landed on her feet at West Virginia University.
The dynamic point guard has been all over the basketball map, playing as a high-school junior at Zion-Benton, as a high-school senior at Waukegan, as a college freshman at Indiana State University, and as a college sophomore at Chipola Junior College in Florida.
Last winter, Jarrett put up LeBron-like numbers at Chipola, which earned her a spot on the West Virginia roster.
Last year, the Mountaineers were 29-6. That's the good news. The bad news is they play in the same conference as Connecticut, which is state-of-the-art in the sport and beat WVU by 32 and 33 points last season.
On a positive note, Big East Conference women's hoops games are televised on cable TV quite a bit, so there's a chance to follow the next step in Jarrett's career.
• No thanks for the memory.
Bianca landing at West Virginia served as a reminder that she was a huge star her junior year at Zion-Benton High, and only transferred to Waukegan High for her senior season after the Bees relieved then-coach Mike Williams of his coaching duties after he led the Bees to a school record for wins in a season.
That ranks as one of our biggest coaching losses this century.
Happily, M.W., always a friend of the program, landed solidly on his feet and is coaching the successful women's hoops team at Blackburn College in the southern part of the state.
