Vancouver Sun – Friday, February 26, 1993 – Sports p. D12 – "Seebaran ends hoop season with 60-point display"

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That may have looked like a misprint in Saturday’s paper, but it wasn’t.

McNair’s high scorer in a 117-80 backdoor playoff win against Killarney for the Lower Mainland senior boys triple-A basketball tournament was Josh Masters with 38 points (33 of them in the first half), while Killarney’s high scorer was Brian Seebaran, with 60.

60 points?

“McNair was playing a hell of a game,” explains Killarney coach Ted Cusick. “Every shot they took went in — even their subs were hitting threes. The other coach (McNair head coach Paul Eberhardt) and I just looked down the bench at each other and shook our heads.”

Faced with a 30-point deficit at halftime and injuries to key starters Jason Zoney and Louis Mark, Cusick was faced with a tough decision — accept defeat, but try and salvage something in the process.

“So I told the kids, ‘let’s get something out of this; let’s feed Brian every chance we get.’

With McNair leading 36-21 Eberhardt says his assistant coach noticed that Seebaran had scored 17 of Killarney’s first 21 points.

“He said maybe we should do something about that,” Eberhardt says, “but the way our own kids were scoring it was to our advantage to play straight up.

“Obviously I’m pleased we won, but I’m also pleased that a kid like Seebaran could go out on that note. He’s a nice kid and it was a nice way for him to end his season.”