Not necessarily. Sumter Co. and Livingston have a long rich history of putting out great basketball teams. Between the two, state championships have been won in 1987, 1988, 1994, 1998,1999, 2003, 2004, and 2005. And aside from those, between the two, appearances in the championship game have been made in 1975, 1991, 1992,1995, 2002, 2004, and 2006. Mario Austin (who played at Sumter Co. and Miss. St.), for example, had at least 5 other guys on his team during his sophomore year that were within one inch of him in height and they were all about the same size. I know because I grew up playing against all of them (as well as Erwin Dudley - RC Hatch and Antoine Pettway - Keith/Wilcox Co.) There are a ton of corn fed, hand spanked mammoth young men in that area. And don't let the 3A thing fool you. We routinely handled 5A & 6A schools.
