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A rim for the ages: Bellingham's Dittrich, Randall engrained in basketball's fabric

Nearly four decades ago, Lake Samish separated two men - Toby Dittrich and Chuck Randall - both beginning a journey that would revolutionize the game of basketball.

Dittrich was young - still in his college years while Randall was nearing the end of his career as the basketball coach at Western Washington University. The two had crossed paths, albeit in the classroom when Dittrich was a student of Randall's. He was a rather lackadaisical student at that, Dittrich said laughing in a phone interview, acknowledging the C he received in Randall's physical education course being more his doing than anything else.