Former Laurinburg Institute Prep coach Chris Chaney continues to have success four years after he left the Tiger program.

Chaney won prep-school national championships in 2003 and 2005 at the Laurinburg Institute. The Tigers' unbeaten 2005 team was loaded from top to bottom with Division-I talent, including six players who would go on to play at Memphis. The Memphis Tigers made the NCAA Division I national championship game last season with a starting lineup that included three players (Robert Dozier, Antonio Anderson and Joey Dorsey) who came from Laurinburg. Dorsey is now an NBA rookie with the Houston Rockets, one of eight former Chaney players to be drafted into the Association.

Chaney left Laurinburg for the Patterson School after the 2005 season, and the post-graduate school just outside of Lenoir has taken on the same look that Chaney's teams in Laurinburg had. Chaney already has one national championship under his belt at Patterson (2006), and his team is currently ranked as the top prep school in all the land with a record of 32-2.

The Patterson School is the favorite to win another national championship when the Champions Prep Basketball Classic at Viking Hall in Bristol, Tenn. gets underway on Monday. It is said to be highly possible that all 15 of Chaney's Bulldog players will sign Division I scholarships. The team is led by Rashati Harris (Georgia State), one of the top five prep school players in the nation, Clarence Trent (Washington), DeAndre Kane (Seton Hall), Vincent Council (Providence), Hassan Whiteside (Marshall) and Arsalan Kazemi (Rice).

The type of talent that flowed through the Laurinburg Institute during Chaney's days there has ceased. The four teams the Tigers have fielded since his departure have failed to come close to the success that Chaney's '03 and '05 squads had.