Boys Basketball: Two-Time Defending State Champion Potomac Falls, Off to 3-0 Start, Celebrates Graves Signing with Mount Saint Mary's

More photos from the Greg Graves signing celebration.

(Dec. 6, 2011) - The two-time Division 4 state champion Potomac Falls High School boys basketball has opened up the season 3-0 after winning the Broadway annual tip off tournament over the weekend but the Panthers still found time in the last week to celebrate senior Greg Graves' college signing with NCAA Division I Mount Saint Mary's.

Potomac Falls coach Jeff Hawes, just before the team cut a cake in honor of the 6-foot-7, 205-pound graves, said that the center is one of the area D1 basketball signing from a public high school in Loudoun.

Graves said he notified Mountaineers Coach Robert Burke of his choice in Oct., one day after returning from an official visit to the school in Emmitsburg, Md., and he then signed his Letter of Intent in Nov.

Graves averaged career-highs 15.6 points and 9.5 rebounds per game last year as the Panthers repeated their state title. Potomac Falls is the only boys program in Loudoun history to win a state basketball crown.


The Panthers graduated 10 seniors from last year and all the starters except for Graves but Potomac Falls opened the year last week wit a 20-point Dulles District win over Loudoun County, 66-46, followed by a pair of wins at Broadway, starting with a 81-49 blowout over Liberty-Bedford followed by a close win over the host Gobblers Saturday, 53-48.

Graves is already showing what a force he will be this senior season with an average of 25.7 points per game in the first week including 35 points Friday.

More photos from the Greg Graves signing celebration.

Mount Saint Mary's finished 11-21 last season and tied for seventh in the Northeast Conference.