Hang Time

- Season 5

(1999)

Hammer is forced to leave the team and Mary Beth when he is offered an out of state scholarship. Antonio moves from Texas to be with Kristy. Eugene Brown replaces Rico, who joined the wrestling team.

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

Julie starts dating an older guy, who constantly encourages her to do mature things. Coach Katowinski rents out an apartment to Antonio.

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

Michael meets a man after a basketball game and gets both a loan and a job. Julie finds out the man is a college recruiter and becomes worried Michael may have become ineligible to play college basketball. Coach Katowinski purchases a telescope but breaks the lens the day before a rare comet appears.

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.

Eugene and Silk become co-managers for a new dance club. Kristy and Mary Beth go undercover to buy drugs from a dealer in order to get spots in the newspaper.

A vengeful criminal named Eric terrorizes Silk. Silk starts getting nervous so he arms himself with a gun.

Kristy becomes lab partners with Syd, a Grote. She dresses up as a Grote to get to know them better. Eugene lies to a college girl, telling her that he also attends college.

Michael and Silk sign up for a big brother program. They get assigned to a boy named Daniel. Silk doesn't have the chance to meet Daniel's mother but when Michael meets her, she says that she's glad that her son got the right kind of big brother: a white male.

The team travels to the state finals. Antonio meets up with some friends at a fraternity party. Kristy gets jealous when she finds out there were other girls there. Michael is harassed by a guy in the stands.

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.

The University of Kentucky offers Antonio a scholarship. However, he suffers an injury and declines it. Mary Beth can't get over Hammer's departure.

Coach doesn't know that his 17-year-old daughter, visiting from Chicago, had a baby. The guys try to sell pagers to raise money for a ski trip.