Celebrating Black History Month: Hillside’s “Pony Express”
One of the most famous high school basketball teams in North Carolina history did not actually win its state championship during the dream year, but Hillside High School in Durham established some amazing records. The 1965-66 season under head coach Carl Easterling promised to be great, since Hillside had won the North Carolina High School Athletic Conference state 4-A championship the year before with some explosive offensive fireworks. But nobody had ever seen what Hillside did with its “Pony Express” during the 1965-66 campaign, well before the advent of the three-point field goal.