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New transfer Julie Connor tries out for the boys' varsity basketball team, something that is met with displeasure from team captain Chris Atwater and jealousy from his girlfriend Mary Beth, Deering High's head cheerleader. Meanwhile, Coach Bill Fuller tries to get used to his new job but has a hard time getting used to Samantha, the team manager.

The press is all over the basketball team, because it's Julie's first game with the Deering Tornadoes. Her teammates begin to resent her because of all the attention she's getting. Mary Beth saves Earl's life and gets a pig in return.

Guest star: Angelle Brooks as Roxanne

Special guest stars: Willow Bay and Ahmad Rashad

After Michael misses two free throws in a game Deering lost, he struggles with loss of self-confidence until he gets a visit from Detroit Piston's Grant Hill. When Samantha gives lessons to Danny on how to win Julie's heart, it's Samantha who falls for Danny.

If Earl doesn't pass a history test, he can't play in the crucial game against Dover High. Meanwhile, Danny and Julie engage in a prank war.

Chris and Mary Beth's relationship gets worse, when Mary Beth goes out with an old classmate without telling Chris. Meanwhile, the team goes to Coach Fuller's house to watch a Mike Tyson fight on a Saturday, but Danny usually goes out on a date with Samantha on Saturday nights.

Michael and Mary Beth run against each other for Student President. Michael plans to save Earl's "Future Farmers Club", while Mary Beth and her friends wants to replace it with the "Gold Card Club." Meanwhile, Chris and Julie make a bet on which one of the attractive female teachers will ask Coach Fuller out on a date.

Earl inspires Mary Beth to write a poem when she founds out that Julie and Chris have been secretly dating.

Samantha looks back at the week leading up to the league championship game and the game itself. Julie is annoyed when Chris resorts to an old habit to play well in the league championship game - a good luck kiss from Mary Beth. Meanwhile, Danny has difficulties saying "I Love You" to Samantha.

A new school year at Deering High begins and the basketball season is off to a shaky start, with the departure of last year's starting line-up freshman Michael Maxwell, and seniors Earl Hatfield and Chris Atwater. Mary Beth announces that she has taken the position of team manager from Samantha (who's at college in Chicago), changes Deering's basketball uniforms, and appoints a new lively head cheerleader, Amy. With the addition of newcomers Vince D'Amata and Teddy Brodis (Coach Fuller's godson) to the team, Julie, Danny and Mary Beth try to recruit the talented Josh Sanders, who's sworn off competitive sports.

Julie has a crush on new teammate Josh Sanders, but when she thinks boys don't notice her, she has an identity crisis and quits the team. Meanwhile, Danny, Teddy and Vince makes fun of the cheerleaders, and Mary Beth and Amy punish them by making every girl at the school stop talking to them until they apologize.

The Harvest Moon Dance is coming up, and Danny is especially excited to be reunited with Samantha -- until he receives a letter that explains that she has found a new love. Mary Beth and Vince insult each other over their dates to the dance. Meanwhile, Teddy is convinced by Amy to be DJ for the dance.

When Vince hears about a basketball training camp hosted by Coach Fuller and NBA star Muggsy Bogues, he is willing to do anything to get in, including taking steroids. The rest of the gang is filming an alien invasion movie, "Zeltoid Hunters".

Mary Beth dates Vince to get her father's attention. The team has to beat undefeated Remington High to keep their play-off hopes alive.

NBA superstar Theodore Brodis, Sr., Teddy's dad, moves to Indianapolis after retiring from the NBA. The team gets ready for a 3-point shoot-off.

Julie gets jealous of the new waitress, Nicole. Mary Beth teaches Vince to dance.

The game which decides if Deering makes it to the playoffs. Julie is made an offer to play professional basketball in Italy.

Special guest star: Lisa Leslie

New cheerleader Kristy Ford and new player Michael Manning both arrive at Deering. Julie is disappointed when the team choose Michael to be the new team captain. Mary Beth reveals that she kissed Ryan Parker at space camp.

Mary Beth uses up the team's budget for the entire year to buy sport bags. Coach Fuller demands that Mary Beth raise back the money she blew; when her dad won't cover it, she becomes a waitress at Stadium. The situation gets complicated with her manager Tom, a former Deering basketball star, who begins to sexually harass her. The basketball team gets tattoos in order to show team unity for their upcoming season.

After Danny gets into a verbal altercation with a bully, he takes up karate, as do Michael, Teddy, and Vince. The Montrose & Deering cheerleaders have a prank war.

Julie is dating a player from a rival team. Mary Beth tries to arrange a dinner so all the players can get to know each other. Kristy prepares for her driving exam.

A scout from the University of Arizona comes to see Michael. He hurts his ankle while practicing with Julie and tries to hide the extent of his injury. Kristy tries to teach Mary Beth the bones of the human body.

Nicky, Vince's little brother, returns from France. Nicky now likes writing poems, something that Vince doesn't find suitable for a D'Amata.

Guest star: Billy Sullivan (brother of Michael Sullivan who stars as Vince) as Nicky D'Amata.

In California, Julie and Teddy are the only ones practicing; the rest of the team goes with Mary Beth to watch for celebrities at their hotel. Julie and Teddy are targeted by professional basketball hustlers. Vince finds Mel Gibson's wallet.

Vince agrees to help Mary Beth organize the school dance. Danny offers to help Kristy with the school's blood drive. Michael doesn't want to ask Julie to the dance, because he can't dance.

Teddy enters into a pizza-eating contest to win concert tickets. The gang is disappointed when they find out that the concert is on a work day. Coach Fuller receives a rare 1918 standing liberty quarter worth $5,000; he entrusts Mary Beth with the rare quarter, which proves to be a disastrous mistake when Vince uses the quarter to buy a soda.

The Tornadoes make it to the Indiana State Championship finals. Southern Florida University wants to hire Coach Fuller. The team is more worried about losing their coach than their game.

Hammer finds out that his S.A.T. scores aren't good enough to get him into any of the colleges that he had planned to attend. Kristy tries to convince Hammer to take the S.A.T.s again. Julie and Michael's anniversary is coming up and when Mary Beth overhears Michael talking about buying a Ruby guitar, she mistakenly thinks that he's buying Julie a ruby.

Rico is self-conscious about going out with a girl who is taller than him. When Mary Beth accidentally throws away Hammer's favourite jacket, she and Kristy try to find it before Hammer finds out.

The Deering team travel to New York after winning a trip. Hammer looks up an old girlfriend, and Mary Beth feels jealous. Rico, Silk and Michael get into a food fight at a New York Knicks game.

Mary Beth becomes the manager for Michael's band "Slam Funk". The team thinks the coach is leaving to take another job.

Eugene starts liking skateboards, and acts like it is more important than basketball. Kristy is apprehensive about her parents meeting Antonio.

Julie and Antonio decide to enter a swing dancing competition together. Mary Beth thinks that there is more than dancing going on between the two. Silk and Eugene set up pranks to catch on video.

The team is overly confident when they find out that the team that they are playing against in the Indiana State Championship finals is one which is generally considered easy to beat. Kristy and Mary Beth try to make it up to an old classmate whom they used to tease but instead they just end up getting humiliated.

Mr. McHenry, who has just won a Teacher of the Year award, encourages the students to rebel against a newly enforced dress code. The dress code is overturned but Mr. McHenry is fired. Eugene, Kristy and Mary Beth pool their money together to try to win the lotto. Mary Beth and Kristy end up getting detention for the first time ever and then they keep getting more and more detentions.

Silk loses his faith when his aunt Charlotte dies. Mary Beth and Coach Katowinski are the last two contestants competing in a fundraising competition where the person who stays the longest inside a VW Beetle wins.

The coach tells Julie to toughen up before the next game but she ends up injuring a player who was destined to play in the NBA. She loses her confidence and gets benched for the next game. An ATM spits out $1000, when Kristy only asks for $20. When Mary Beth and Kristy decide to keep the money, they have a run of bad luck.

Kristy and Antonio enjoy working together at the local cinema until a promotion becomes available. Mary Beth has a romantic dream about Eugene.