Half a century ago, the final buzzer sounded in a Middlesex gym signaling the end of a neutral site game. The T.C. Walker High School team had just beaten Central High School, 166-56.

Basketball has changed tremendously since the 1960s. Fans of roundball have seen the sport move from defined roles and physical interior play towards a “position-less” game with teams now trending towards increased perimeter scoring and versatility on the wings.

Despite all the changes to the game of basketball in the last 60-plus years, one thing has remained constant—T.C. Walker High School, an eventual district championship team, achieved a level of scoring no Virginia squad has been able to match or surpass since. Gloucester’s T.C. Walker High School served the county’s black population in the days before school desegregation.

In the recorded history of organized high school basketball in the United States, a history which can be traced to the late 1800s, only 10 teams...