Hoop dreams are alive and swell today with the announcement of the NCAA Division I basketball tournaments, one day after the high school tourneys' conclusion.

It is time for fantasy to blend into reality. That's where Duane Lewis comes in, along with his website, Global-shot-dr.com.

In nine seasons coaching the boys at Alamosa High School and 15 more at Alameda, Lewis never won a state title, but his teams were perennial contenders - against great odds.

Until the dark year of 1981, when class expansion began a slow deterioration of the magic of the state tournament, there were only three classifications - and Alamosa was in Class AAA, the biggest one. Most years, the Mean Moose were the school with the smallest enrollment in the tournament, but Lewis' teams got all the way to the semifinals twice, in 1978 and 1980.

Alameda got to the big-school semifinals in 1982 and 1985. The Pirates have had little basketball tradition to speak of before or after Lewis' time there.

What did Lewis' Alamosa and Alameda teams have in common, besides flashy warm-up routines? They always had a player who could shoot the eyes out of the basket. Loren Lutz, who earned a scholarship to North Carolina, was the best-known sharpshooter at Alamosa. Shawn Smith was among the great gunners at Alameda.

It wasn't an accident. Lewis, a.k.a. the Global Shot Doctor - an upgrade from his previous Denver Shot Doctor - is a master of teaching how to shoot correctly. Global-shot.dr.com is where you start, and that's no fantasy.