The West team in the McDonald's All-American girls' game wasn't just super- sized. It was Texas-sized.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -

Five Texas players combined for 62 percent of the West's scoring in an 84-75 victory Wednesday at Value City Arena.
According to several Texans, it was a fitting performance.
"Everything is bigger in Texas," said Stanford-bound forward Chiney Ogwumike of Cypress, Texas, who scored 14 points.
"But the concern and support of girls athletics in Texas is unsurmountable. Southern hospitality - people care.

"They're not into using you; they're into developing you."

Texas A&M signee Karla Gilbert of College Station said, "This shows progress, what we can do in Texas."
Flashy guard Meighan Simmons of Cibolo, Texas, earned the West team's MVP honors, scoring 21 points with three rebounds, and Florida State signee Natasha Howard earned the East MVP award - and screams from friends and family traveling from her nearby hometown of Toledo - with 20 points and nine rebounds.
Friendly rivals

As a Stanford commit, Ogwumika not only had to contend this week with two future rivals at California - guard Afure Jemerigbe and forward Lindsay Sherbert - but also the fact that she's leaving Big 12 country to play in the Pac-10.
Three of the McDonald's girls players from Texas are attending Big 12 schools, and Simmons is bound for Tennessee.
"It's light humor," Ogwumika said. "Of course we talk to each other about, you're going here or there, Pac-10 or whatever. It was funny.

"Traditionally, people would say, 'Why don't you go to UT?' But I did what was best for me athletically and academically. We tease each other, but the decisions were made for the best of us."
Old hat
East boys guard Josh Selby went to a "dunk off" with the West's Ray McCallum to win Monday's Jam Fest, but he never doubted the result.
"It was not a surprise because every dunk contest I won," Selby said.

"I was very confident. All the dunks I did, I did before."
McCallum's dunks, meanwhile, surprised some observers because he does not dunk often in games. Slam magazine said McCallum's moves "shocked" most experts, before McCallum lost the competition when he fumbled some between-the-legs dunks.
Rim shots

• For the 10th year in a row, Oak Hill Academy was represented at the McDonald's game, this time by guard Doron Lamb, a UA target.

Last year, Oak Hill placed Oklahoma big man Tiny Gallon and two years ago, it was guard Brandon Jennings, then signed to a letter of intent for Arizona before he opted to play professionally in Italy.
• Lamb was quoted in the official McDonald's game media guide saying he favors math at Oak Hill "because I like putting up numbers."
Among hobbies listed by the players, Memphis-bound Jelan Kendrick plays chess, Villanova-bound Jayvaugh Pinkston boxes, North Carolina signee Harrison Barnes sings bass in a school choir, and Texas' Tristan Thompson enjoys Shakespeare.

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