MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) Back when Bruce Weber was an up-and-coming assistant on Gene Keadys staff at Purdue, the coach would spend countless hours on planes and behind the wheel to catch as many high school basketball games as possible.
He would walk into the gymnasium of an elite prospect on a cold January night and wedge his way into a crowd of half a dozen other coaches, all trying to scout their next potential star.
These young guys, they cant even imagine, said Weber, now the coach at Kansas State, but there was no AAU, and the young guys that grew up in it, played in it, thats all they know.
