Sakuragaoka Gakuen High School earned its first medal in the Winter Cup boys competition late last month.
The Aichi Prefecture school used a simple offensive strategy to accomplish that goal: Give the ball to scoring machine Keisei Tominaga.
It proved to be the proper plan. The senior shooting guard averaged 39.8 points in his team's six games at the annual national high school tournament, which is officially called the All-Japan Championship.