Anwar McQueen remembers vividly when it all began. Spring of 2005.
At the time, he was an assistant men’s basketball coach at the University of San Francisco. Jessie Evans was the head coach, but McQueen became the protégé of fellow assistant Bill Johnson. McQueen and Johnson went to De La Salle High to watch Theo Robertson, a local hoops star high on USF’s wish list. Johnson had introduced McQueen to a new software for breaking down film. It was called SportsCode. So while Johnson drove — across the Bay Bridge, through the Caldecott Tunnel — McQueen was in the passenger seat, getting his mind blown.
“That was the moment right there,” he recalled recently.
Since McQueen had joined the Dons’ staff in 2002, all he’d known about film editing and data collection was connected to VHS tapes. Back then, video coordinators had to be wizards with the VCR, cutting the fat off of game film and splicing footage for the sake of analysis. But this…
