Former Player Norman "Duke" Wiseman

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The Twin Falls Times-News has a nice feature about Norman Wiseman, a Twin Falls resident who played for the Bengals back in the 50's. He talks about his time playing...

After graduating, he tried out for college teams in Oregon, but was picked by none. Then one day — out of the blue — he got a letter from Steve Belko, head basketball coach at Idaho State College. Belko asked Duke to come to Pocatello to try out for the Bengals.

He later learned Culver’s druggist, an ISC alumnus, had watched Duke play high school basketball and had suggested Belko recruit him.

So Duke took a bus to Pocatello and Belko met him at Reed Gym. The gym seemed enormous to him, he said, compared to his tiny gym back in Culver.

Read more: MagicValley.com: Norman "Duke" Wiseman Looks Back at his life in Athletics