Gimme a head with hair ... hair!

The Cowsills, they ain’t.

(If you’ve never heard of The Cowsills, well, never mind.)

It appears to be the Year of the Hair in high school boys basketball.

Timberlake has a couple long-haired kids on its team — and that’s not including one who has long, flowing brown hair that a girl would be envious of.

More on that one later.

Even one of the Tigers assistant coaches has a healthy head of hair, seeming right out of a 1970s senior picture.

DAVE DICKINSON, a senior guard who comes off the bench for Timberlake, has hair hanging down past his shoulder blades.

But for good reason.

He’s growing it out for Locks of Love, a U.S.-based nonprofit that provides wigs for American and Canadian children in need, due to medical conditions that caused them to permanently lose their hair.

“Hair is a big part of your self image at that age,” Dickinson said. “When you’re growing up, you need that confidence, and having hair would help.”

Dickinson said his cousin, Maddi Morrow, a middle school student in Coeur d’Alene, donated her hair, “and that inspired me to do the same.”

Dickinson last cut his hair in February 2015. He said it’s long enough now to cut and donate, but he plans to grow it out for three more months before facing the scissors.

“It feels good,” he said of helping out a girl who has lost her hair due to cancer treatments.

Whereas most boys can just dry their hair, comb it and go, he talks about having to thoroughly brush through his long hair every day — like, well, many girls have to.

“The hair is really annoying, but it’s worth it,” he said. “I don’t know how girls do it.”

TWO STARTERS, guards Dock Sommers and Brayden Menti, have hair long enough to tie up in the back when they play.

Dickinson said trying to talk either of them into donating their hair would be fruitless.

“Dock loves his hair,” Dickinson said.

“My son (Keegan) started it, back in 2013,” said Timberlake coach Michael Scott, whose son was a multisport athlete for the Tigers, and now plays basketball in college. “It was as long as these guys’. He wore it back and everything. He was the only one on the team that did it, and that’s where it came from.”

Now, it’s become a folic-induced epidemic in Spirit Lake.

“I told them if we made it to state they all had to cut their hair, and they wouldn’t do it,” coach Scott said. “They told me I had to get a Snapchat account. When they get their hair cut, I’ll get a Snapchat account.”

OK, THE Cowsills sang the title track to the 1968 musical “Hair.” Google it.

LOTS OF locks are not limited to the 3A level.

Jake Pfennigs, two-sport star at 5A Post Falls, sports a thick head of dark hair, hanging down to the shoulders.

Just because.

“It’s more of a baseball thing, I guess,” said Pfennigs, a junior who has verbally committed to play at Arizona State.

Speaking after he made the game-winning basket in Thursday night’s first-round game against Boise, Pfennings said it’s the first time he’s put his hair in a pony tail while he played.

He said his last haircut was around October of his freshman year (2014), and said there was no particular reason for growing it out.

“I want to have it when I can,” Pfennigs explained to a 50-something sports writer who once had long hair in high school (nowhere near that long, but long enough to mirror the style of that era), but now sports, shall we say, a bare spot.

Mark Nelke is sports editor of The Press. He can be reached at 664-8176, Ext. 2019, or via email at mnelke@cdapress.com. Follow him on Twitter@CdAPressSports.