Colin McKenney is a tree person and a basketball person. That unusual combination worked together for Wichita State to rediscover its Olympic Oak, a living, leafing, second-generation tie to the 1936 Olympics. “Drawing attention to it is a wonderful thing,†McKenney said. “People to this day I talk to have no knowledge of the 1936 team. Sometimes people in Kansas say there’s not much here to be proud of. There is a lot to be proud of.†The 1936 Olympic team holds an important, if overlooked, piece of Kansas basketball history. WSU’s Olympic Oak, offspring of the oaks given to Olympic champions in 1936, is one attempt to highlight that history. The McPherson Globe Refiners, an AAU...
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