{"id":117438,"date":"2026-01-02T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/117438\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T15:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T15:00:08","slug":"prep-talk-will-bryson-iii-is-averaging-33-1-points-for-st-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/117438\/","title":{"rendered":"Prep talk: Will Bryson III is averaging 33.1 points for St. Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Will Bryson III of St. Paul stuck it out for his senior basketball season even though the team lost pretty much everybody to graduation except for him.<\/p>\n<p>All he can do is his best, and that\u2019s what he has been doing, including a 68-point performance two weeks ago in Las Vegas in a triple overtime game.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-4 guard is averaging 33.1 points a game for St. Paul (6-9) and showing dedication in that he stayed knowing the team might not be as good as last season\u2019s 19-11 team, but he\u2019d be the leader entrusted to help young players develop. On Friday, he faces the state\u2019s leading scorer, Jason Crowe Jr. of Inglewood, in a noon game at Morningside. Bryson ranks as No. 3 in the state. Crowe is averaging 43.9 points and the two have been facing off since their youth days.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Patrick Roy has been raving about Bryson\u2019s contributions.<\/p>\n<p>This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. To submit any news, please email eric.sondheimer@latimes.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Bryson III of St. Paul stuck it out for his senior basketball season even though the team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[62436,423,15217,3900,62437,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,62438,1417,6310,54906,11128,225,427,62439,430],"class_list":["post-117438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bryson-iii","tag-game","tag-high-school-sport","tag-inglewood","tag-jason-crowe-jr","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-morningside","tag-point","tag-prep-talk","tag-scorer","tag-st-paul","tag-state","tag-team","tag-triple-overtime-game","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}