Borrowed from the basketball board...

There is a superb high school basketball tournament taking place at the Aldine Campbell Center December 27-28-29 in Houston:

www.visionsports.com

The top Houston teams will play against the top teams in the nation to determine the best in the USA. There will also be a separate Texas division tournament featuring Houston's leading teams.

National Teams

Oak Hill Academy (Virginia) - #1 ranked
St. Patrick (New Jersey) - #2 ranked
Montverde Academy (Florida) - #3 ranked
DeLaSalle (Minnesota)
Albany Academy (New York)

Houston Teams

Aldine
Bellaire
Cy Springs
Hastings
HCYA
Kingwood
Klein Collins
Madison
MB Smiley
Seven Lakes
St Pius X
St Thomas
Westfield
Wheatley
Yates

http://www.visionsports.com/ANI/2007/PDF/HVTN07Schedule.pdf

Daily passes are $10 and allow the ticket holder to go in and out of the arena throughout the day.

Tickets on sale at Campbell Center box office (1865 Aldine Bender, Houston 77032) on game days.



[This message has been edited by 86 Tex Ag (edited 12/26/2007 11:52a).]

fyi, a&m signee dashan harris plays for montverde (FL).

this would be a good chance to go check him out.

other players that have participated in this tournament include michael beasley, carmelo anthony, and many others.

its usually a pretty entertaining tournament with great bball.

h texans -- when are you going out there?

not sure. i pretty much only want to see d harris play.

Brandon Jennings plays for Oak Hill. I don't think he's better than Greg Monroe though.

I went to a couple games last year. It was badass. Go.

Nice... I may go check out Dashan. Too bad the mighty Dulles Vikings werent invited...

A bit irrelevant and sorry to hijack for a sec, but does anybody remember the Willowridge team from 2000-2001 that went 72-1, with a 62 game win streak and 2 5A State titles. TJ Ford( Texas, NBA), Daniel Ewing (DUKE, NBA) Ivan McFarlin (Oklahoma State, NBA) Kenny Taylor (Baylor, Texas)

Four MAJOR Division one players at elite basketball schools and 3 NBA players on the same freaking basketball team.

They were in our disctrict, so I got to see them play twice a year. By far the best team in Houston history and probably the entire nation.

^In the history of the entire nation?

ft bend, see oak hill almost every year.

I saw Oak Hill play a few years ago when Lawson was a senior and Beasley a Junior. They had a guy on the team that was a senior, 7', and heading to the University of Georgia on a full ride.

He did not start.

That's how good Oak Hill is. Year after year after year.

i followed that willowridge team closely and they were the best i ever saw. in the state finals thier senior yr, ivan mcfarlin had graduated the yr before and was already at okie light, and kenny taylor sprained his ankle in the first half and did not come back. tj ford and ewing dominated and they won. but the team from the yr before when mcfarlin was there was the best i have ever seen. i think oak hill is over-rated most yrs

Here's a quick list of the D1 signees from Oak Hill over the last decade. Not too shabby.

2006 Albert Jackson University of Georgia
2006 Tywon Lawson University of North Carolina
2006 Landon Milbourne University of Maryland
2006 Matt Scherbenske Oral Roberts University
2006 Anthony Wright University of Michigan
2005 Eric Devendorf Syracuse University
2005 David Palmer University of Iowa
2005 K.C. Rivers Clemson University
2005 Bamba Fall Southern Methodist University
2005 Alex Smith College of William & Mary
2004 Brian Johnson Mississippi State University
2004 Rajon Rondo University of Kentucky
2004 Aaron Scott Univ. of CA at Riverside
2004 DayShawn Wright Syracuse University
2003 Dion Dacons Temple University
2003 Kevin Fleming San Jose State University
2003 Ivan Harris Ohio State University
2203 Byron Joynes Rutgers University
2003 J.R. Reynolds University of Virginia
2003 Jarvelle Scott University of Mississippi
2003 Marcus Williams University of Connecticut
2002 Carmelo Anthony Syracuse University
2002 Justin Gray Wake Forest University
2002 Ian Johnson Davidson College
2002 Richard Joyce Wake Forest University
2002 Chadd Moore University of Cincinnati
2002 Antywane Robinson Temple University
2002 Eric Wilkins University of Miami, FL
2001 Wilbur Allen Temple University
2001 Rashaad Carruth Southern Mississippi University
2001 Billy Edelin Syracuse University
2000 Abdou Diame Jacksonville State University
2000 Cliff Hawkins University of Kentucky
2000 Dave Holmes Manhattan College
2000 Luke Whitehead University of Louisville
2000 Chris Williams James Madison University
1999 Steve Blake University of Maryland
1999 John Humphries Middle Tenn. State University
1999 Terry Reynolds George Mason University
1999 Ron Slay University of Tennessee
1999 Travis Watson University of Virginia
1998 Souleymane "Jules" Camara University of Kentucky
1998 Taj Hawkins IUPUI of Indiana
1998 Kevin Lyde Temple University
1998 Lloyd Price Xavier University
1998 Antwan Scott Wake Forest University
1997 William Avery Duke University
1997 Attila Cosby George Washington University
1997 Jermaine Medley Villanova University
1997 Dustin "Dee" Tolliver University of North Carolina-Charlotte
1997 Kenneth White University of North Carolina

the State Champion Willowridge team would have beat ANY Oak Hill team. Period.

they had 3 NBA players on the same team at the same time...

they were insane.

Wasn't the Bellaire team pretty good in 2001 too?

Bellaire was tough with Okafor, but not State tournament quality.

Didn't they have John Lucas too?

I forgot Lucas was on that team for a season. He's been on about 8 teams in the past 6 years and is hard to keep up with.

jai as well.