With their 75-68 overtime victory over Memphis on Monday night in San Antonio, the Kansas Jayhawks put their final stamp on the 2007-08 college basketball season.

While the NCAA crew is wrapping up, a handful of local high school players and coaches are preparing to hit the hardwood one final time.

One month after leading her team to the 6A state title in Emporia, Lawrence High girls basketball coach Kristin Mallory is preparing to lead a group of Kansas all-stars into battle against a similar squad from Missouri at the 12th Annual Hy-Vee/Pepsi High School Basketball All-Star Challenge on Saturday.

Joining Mallory on this year’s Kansas all-star team is LHS senior and Journal-World all-area girls basketball player of the year Danielle Bird. Bird averaged 11.2 points per game and was second on the team in assists with 80.

Bird and Mallory won’t be the only Lions represented at Mid-America Nazarene University in Olathe. LHS boys coach Chris Davis and assistant coach Mike Lewis also will team up with their counterparts from Overland Park-Aquinas to lead the Kansas boys into battle against Missouri on the same night.

For Davis, whose squad took him on a wild ride to the state title game a month ago in Emporia, the opportunity to take the floor one final time this season was too good to pass up.

“I think it’s going to be a great way to end a really fun year,” Davis said. “We had our banquet the other night, and at the end the guys just didn’t want to go home. They didn’t want it to be over.”

Although Davis won’t have any of his own players in uniform, he will coach Free State’s Weston Wiebe.

The 6-foot-4 forward finished the year with per-game averages of 19 points and 9 rebounds. He also shot 63 percent. All three were FSHS single season records.

Wiebe’s showing in the game won’t be a first for the Firebirds and neither will the presence of two high school coaches from Lawrence.

Just last year, after leading their teams to third-place finishes at state, Free State boys coach Chuck Law and girls coach Bryan Duncan also coached in an all-star game – a solid sign that the high school hoops scene is alive and well in Lawrence.

Other names that stand out on this year’s rosters include all-area first teamer Liz Baska, of Tonganoxie High, as well as Kansas University signee Travis Releford, of Roeland Park-Miege.