This is a preview of the high school game coming this Saturday at the 2015 Hoop Cities Invitational in Winston-Salem, NC. The game will be live streamed on NetCastSports.com. Evelyn Mack (13-3), Charlotte, NC taking on Faith Assembly Christian Academy (1-7) out of Durham, NC. Dave Shook has the play by play call. Some of […]
ESPNU will televise the 10th annual Under Armour Elite 24 featuring more than 20 elite college basketball recruits on Friday, August 21, and Saturday, August 22, from Pier 2 in Brooklyn with New York City’s iconic skyline as the backdrop. The two-night, outdoor event begins with the slam dunk contest (Friday at 7 p.m. ET) […]
Due to some last minuted scheduling conflicts (hey, life happens) I was only able to attend the final day of the Big Shots Winston-Salem AAU basketball tournament. Fortunately, as many of you who follow AAU know, the last day is Championship Day! So I still had a chance to catch several players in action, some […]
I could have titled this article “I don’t give a damn about your shoes”, because it would effectively have the same meaning, but I wanted to approach this subject more subjectively and how it relates to my philosophy for Basketball Elite, why we scout the way we do and how we go about attending events. […]
A new rant has lowered a bomb on the college basketball world, stating that Tom Izzo, the head coach at Michigan State, because he wouldn’t cheat: Fran Fraschilla, an ESPN analyst and a head coach in 1992-2002 at Manhattan, St. John’s and New Mexico, was co-hosting “College Sports Today” on SiriusXM radio Monday when a […]
By James Blackburn James Blackburn was able to travel to Sparta, NC to catch the first round of the NCHSAA boys 1A State playoffs between host and higher seed, Alleghany HS and Bishop McGuinness HS. Alleghany jumped out to a quick 1st quarter lead behind the solid play of seniors Fabian Santos and Austin Sprinkle […]
The second annual Super 60 Showdown is headed to North Carolina, check out the details for this year’s high profile event!
By Marcus Shockley After years of watching high school basketball players struggle to get recruited for college, I set out to build something better. Last year we had our most successful year, with 8 of the seniors going on to Division I schools, many more heading to Division II and our dunk contest landed at […]
Harry Giles (PF, 6’9″, 2016) and PJ Dozier (CG, 6’4″, 2015) are two of the top basketball recruits in the nation, with Dozier holding offers from North Carolina, Kansas (among many others) and Giles holding offers from Duke, UNC, Kentucky, Georgetown and pretty much everyone else. But the recruiting world hasn’t seen them in a […]
The inaugural NC Top 80 was held on March 29, 2014 in Greensboro, NC and I wasn’t able to fully scout the event due to the fact that we were broadcasting six of the games live on NetCast Sports Network, but I still had quite a few notes and I’m putting up them here broken […]