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Pingatore sets bar for Illinois hoops

By Joe Bush
Special to ESPNRISE.com

Monday, February 9, 2009

Deryl Cunningham is emphatic when he answers the question: How does Illinois prep basketball stack up across the nation? Cunningham is in his first year as an assistant coach at Indiana State after coaching for two seasons at South Dakota State. Before that, Cunningham assisted Gene Pingatore at St. Joseph High in Westchester, Ill., where Cunningham won Parade and McDonald's All-American honors in 1989. "When you're from Illinois, that's all you know," says Cunningham. "The more I travel, from ...

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