I graduated with him. Always a nice guy. By the way no state championship that year, even with Chris Gaines (iowa's Mr. Basketball ), Anthony Thomas, Terry Woods and a few more great players on that team. Lost to a Davenport team if I recall correctly.
I believe they lost to Carroll Kuemper who had UNI-bound Nick Nurse and a big guy named Brian David who I think got a schollie from Lute Olson at Arizona. Was a great championship game.
Kuemper beat West in the '85 championship (77-58).
West finished 4th in '86, losing to Burlington (78-75) in the semis, and DM East (76-72) in the conso game.