Posted Sunday, June 7th, 2009
It was almost a year ago when Austin Carroll first began to strongly consider the idea of doing a post-graduate season. He had been limited by a nagging ankle injury for most of the spring and was still feeling some lingering effects heading into the summer live period. With limited mobility and just enough rust, he wasn’t able to seize the opportunity to show college coaches his best game during the two live periods. That was the point when he…
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Posted Saturday, June 6th, 2009
The Granite State Jayhawks were the talk of the weekend heading into the finals, but unfortunately for the pride of New Hampshire, Cinderella’s run came to an end in both the u16 and u17 divisions. The Jayhawks 16’s advanced to the final by knocking off MB Nation in the opening round and then scoring an upset over the Albany City Rocks in the semi-finals behind 26 points from Sean McClung and 20 from Connor Green. The Jayhawks 17’s scored an…
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Posted Friday, June 5th, 2009
For the last three years the New England Elite 75 Showcase has been the region’s most prestigious showcase. Year in and year out, the event has featured the top scholarship prospects the region has had to offer. This year is expected to be no different…except that the division I coaches will now be allowed to watch as the event will take place on July 9th during the NCAA Liver Period. The Elite 75 has partnered up with Reebok Basketball and…
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Posted Thursday, June 4th, 2009
The Reebok Breakout Underclass Camp, to be held June 19-21 in Dallas, is designed for the best freshmen, sophomores, and juniors in the country. Six players earned invitations last week following their performance at the Reebok Headliner Try-Out Camp. Here’s a look at who punched their tickets to Dallas: Marco Banegas – Benegas has been making quite a name for himself this spring running the show for BABC’s seventeen-and-under team. We saw glimpses of his talent this weekend as he…
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Posted Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
There are few tournaments in northeast that have the same level of history and tradition as the Boston Shootout. Annually run by the B.A.B.C. the tournament has hosted tons of division I players and even a few who have gone on to play in the NBA. The event returns to Boston University’s Case Gym this weekend. Here’s a look at the schedule. 17 UNDER SCHEDULE Sat June 6th Game 1 2:50pm BABC vs MBR Game 2 4:00pm Team United vs C.B.C. Game 3 …
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Posted Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Following the conclusion of last weekend’s Reebok Headliner Try-Out Camp the Headliner Evaluation staff met to decide who played well enough to earn invitations to the Reebok All-American Camp, New England Elite 75 Showcase, and Reebok Breakout Underclass Camp. Here’s a look at the four players selected to go to Philadelphia for the All-American Camp: Denzel Brito – For the second consecutive year, Brito played himself into an invitation to the All-American Camp with his performance at Headliner. As we…
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Posted Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Tilton Wins Battle for Canty When word got out that Ryan Canty was considering a move to prep school to repeat his junior year, it wasn’t hard to predict that he’d pick up plenty of interest from local programs. Ultimately, Canty did decide to make a move and selected to transfer to the Tilton School next year where he will repeat his junior year. Canty is in the midst of a bit of a breakout season with the Mass Rivals…
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Posted Monday, June 1st, 2009
Scouting young players ages 13 and 14 is always hard because they are well, 13 and 14, but here are a few notable young players from another BasketBull tournament this weekend. 13uBABC took the championship with a 66-59 win over D.C. Assault in the final. Jonathan Joseph, PG, BABC Academy - He beat everyone down the floor in transition and was good at determining when his bigs would get the rebound so he could leak out. Both on the break…
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Posted Monday, June 1st, 2009
Andre Drummond is heading to Colorado Springs, Colorado later this week along with 16 other top players from around the country as part of the USA Development National Team. The players will train from June 6th – 12th at the U.S. Olympic Training Center. At the end of the week 12 of those 17 will be selected to represent the U.S. this summer at the inaugural 2009 FIBA Americas U16 Championships June 17-21 in Mendoza, Argentina where they hope to…
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Posted Sunday, May 31st, 2009
Tony Hanson is a name that many New England basketball fans know very well. In Connecticut especially, he’s a local legend from his playing days at the University of Connecticut. Even today, Hanson is still the school’s all time leader in field goals made, second on the single season scoring average list (26/game), and third on the all-time leading scorer list. But when Hanson’s son, David Hanson, arrived in New England it wasn’t with nearly the same amount of hype. …
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