Dozier Scores 14 In All-American Game
P.J. Dozier might be a homegrown Gamecock, but Wednesday night he proved he can play with the best prep players in the country. Dozier scored 14 points in 20 minutes at the McDonald’s High School All-American Game in Chicago. His West team lost to the East 111-91. The 6-6 Spring Valley High School guard assisted on an alley-oop on the game’s first two points and hit two three-pointers in the first four minutes. Dozier is just the fourth McDonald’s All-American to become a Gamecock. P.J.’s uncle Terry, Irmo’s B.J. McKie and Lower Richland’s Rolando Howell are the three others. P.J.’s sister, Asia, is a junior guard on the USC women’s basketball team that is headed to the Final Four. Their father, Perry Dozier Sr., starred with his twin brother Terry for the Gamecocks from 1985-1989. P.J. is the fourth Columbia-area player to play in the McDonald’s All-American Game in the last four years. Spring Valley’s Xylina McDaniel (2012), Dutch Fork’s Alaina Coates (2013) and Heathwood Hall’s A’ja Wilson (2014) all played in the girls game. McDaniel plays her college basketball at North Carolina but missed most of this season with a leg injury. Coates and Wilson play at USC.
