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3/11/2008 10:25:00 AM

Style Archive Update No. 11

This is the season's 11th update of the Style Archive, a museum of college hoops fashion that featured 44 exhibits in 2006-07 and is back open for '07-08.

Readers are encouraged to make nominations in the comments or by sending an e-mail to hoopstylesi@gmail.com, and will get credit for successful suggestions. Pictures are welcome.

Without further ado, the Archive (latest update March 11; full Archive can be found here):

Lithuanian Artillery
Laurynas Mikalauskas, 6-8 forward, Jr., Virginia
Classification: Schwarzenegger pose
Spotted: March 5 vs. Duke
Notes: Mikalauskas gave us perhaps the best single-basket celebration of the year after an and-one play against the Dukies. Not even an elaborate shoulder-and-arm brace could stop him from flexing.

Cinderella Beard
Todd Babington, 6-6 guard, Sr., Austin Peay
Classification: Facial hair
Spotted: March 8 vs. Tennessee State
Notes: For a lumberjack, Babington has some decent basketball skills: He scored 24 points while rocking this beard in the Ohio Valley Conference's tourney title game, clinching Peay a spot in the NCAAs.

Major League 'Stache
Tony Shaver, coach, William & Mary
Classification: Facial hair
Spotted: March 9 vs. VCU
Notes: Shaver is like a young Lou Brown, sporting a coaching 'stache that exudes authority. While Brown coaxed an underdog to the AL Pennant, though, Shaver came one game short of getting W&M to the NCAAs.

The Chism
Tyrone Shelley, 6-6 guard, Fr., Pepperdine
Classification: Headgear
Spotted: March 7 vs. Portland
Notes: Shelley and Tennessee's Wayne Chism both belong to the High-Up school of headband style -- essentially the opposite of UCLA's Lorenzo Mata-Real, who wears his all the way over his ears.

The Red Storm
John Bryant, 6-10 center, Jr., Santa Clara
Classification: Hirsuteness
Spotted: March 9 vs. Gonzaga
Notes: Bryant rocks an explosive mop of curls while serving as the Broncos' giant in the post. This puts him on par with Gonzaga's Matt Bouldin -- a Mike Gordon look-a-like -- for the WCC's biggest 'do.

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