MCDONALD'S ALL-STAR GAME ROSTERS



Rosters for 1996 McDonald's All-American boys basketball game March 31 at Pittsburgh Civic Arena. Game will be televised at 2 p.m. ET on CBS. EAST TEAM Player Ht High school College Kobe Bryant 6-6 Lower Merion (Ardmore, Pa.) NBA Ed Cota 6-1 St. Thomas More (Oakdale, Conn.) North Carolina Willie Dersch 6-5 Holy Cross (Queens, N.Y.) Virginia Vassil Evtimov 6-9 Long Island Lutheran (N.Y.) North Carolina Richard Hamilton 6-6 Coatesville (Pa.) Connecticut Charles Hathaway 6-10 Hillwood (Nashville) Tennessee Shaheen Holloway 5-10 St. Patrick's (Elizabeth, N.J.) Seton Hall Stephen Jackson 6-7 Oak Hill (Mouth of Wilson, Va.) Arizona Nate James 6-6 St. John's at Prospect Hall (Md.) Duke Jermaine O'Neal 6-10 Eau Claire (Columbia, S.C.) NBA Tim Thomas 6-9 Paterson (N.J.) Catholic Villanova Head coach: John Miller, Blackhawk (Beaver Falls, Pa.) Assistants: Rick Bell, Peters Township (McMurray, Pa.) and Don Graham, North Catholic (Pittsburgh) _________________________________________________________________ WEST TEAM Player Ht High School College Glendon Alexander 6-4 Newman Smith (Carrollton, Texas) Arkansas Corey Benjamin 6-6 Fontana (Calif.) Oregon State Mike Bibby 6-2 Shadow Mountain (Phoenix) Arizona Jerald Brown 6-7 Aldine (Houston) Texas A&M Mateen Cleaves 6-2 Flint (Mich.) Northern Michigan State Jason Collier 7-0 Catholic Central (Ohio) Indiana Lester Earl 6-9 Glen Oaks (Baton Rouge, La.) Louisianna State Ronnie Fields 6-3 Farragut (Chicago) DePaul Michael Robinson 6-6 Richwoods (Peoria, Ill.) Purdue Winfred Walton 6-9 Pershing (Detroit) Syracuse Loren Woods 7-1 Cardinal Ritter (St. Louis) Wake Forest Head coach: Nate Harris, Booker T. Washington (Tulsa) Assistant: Levi Brown, Booker T. Washington (Tulsa)