<p>The entire 2006 squad featured only six players with high school varsity basketball experience – and none of them, according to the film, received offers to play for any other colleges. For dedicated head coach Roy Dow, “recruitment” at CalTech primarily consists of open tryouts, only the first step in a season full of uniquely frustrating challenges. It is the Beavers’ enthusiasm and drive in the face of such overwhelming odds, according to Greenwald, that makes their story so compelling – especially when you consider the daunting scholastic workload required of students at a school regularly ranked among the top five academic institutions in the world. “These kids are geniuses,” he says. “They know the plays inside and out, but they just can’t always get their bodies to do what their mind is telling them to do. The reality is that CalTech basketball is purer than Little League Baseball.” So far, “Quantum Hoops” has garnered a fair amount of attention on the festival circuit, including an Audience Choice Award at the 2007 Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The film has also been shown several times on the CalTech campus and recently had its official theatrical debut at Laemmle’s One Colorado in Pasadena. Plans for a DVD release are currently in the works. Says Greenwald: “This is more or less my version of a science experiment.”</p>
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