LONG BEACH, Ca. – The second annual Ron Massey Memorial Fall Hoops Classic is set for Saturday and Sunday at Jordan High – the campus on which Massey served as the boys’ varsity basketball coach for 28 years.
And it features a field of teams from some of the very best programs in Southern California and will serve as an ex facto “two-day preview to the 2015 CIF Southern Section playoffs.”
Five “showcase games” are scheduled, beginning at 11 o’clock Saturday morning.
An eight-team playoff – made of players from Nevada State powerhouse Las Vegas Bishop Gorman and those from seven programs likely to be participants in the 2016 Southern Section Open Division playoffs – tips at 5 p.m.
A large percentage of the very best players/”college prospects” will also be on hand.
The first of the latter group of games will feature a team of Chino Hills players, including the extended “Ball Family”, vs. a squad of Redondo Union players, including four starters from a team that was the Southern Section consolation runner-up in the Open Division and Division I semifinalist in the State Southern Regionals.
The “Ball Brothers, Plus One” is made up of senior Lonzo (who plans to sign a UCLA letter of intent in November and is the top players in the West), junior LiAngelo and freshman LaMelo Ball, and their first cousin, sophomore Andre Ball.
Key Redondo players are seniors Leland Green, Morgan Means, Elijah Nesbit and Cameron Williams, as well as junior jump-shooting specialist Ryse Williams.
The last of the Saturday first-round games in the eight-team bracket will a squad of players from Long Beach Poly going against a counterpart from Santa Ana Mater Dei.
The Mater Dei group is expected to be without 6-foot-9 Michael Cage Jr. (a starter since his sophomore season), who plans to make a recruiting visit to the University of Oregon this weekend.
Consolation games from the eight-team bracket begin at 9 o’clock Sunday morning, with the winners’ semifinals getting underway at 11:20.
The seventh-, fifth- and third-place games are scheduled for 1:40 p.m., 2:50 and 4 o’clock, respectively, with the championship set for 5:10.
Chino Hills – led by the older of the Ball brothers – won the event a year ago with wins over L.A. Cathedral, Compton and Pasadena Maranatha, respectively.
Daily admission is $10 with all proceeds to benefit the Jordan High program.
The complete “Showcase” Saturday schedule: 11 a.m., Lynwood vs. L.B. Jordan; 12:10 p.m., Temecula Rancho Christian vs. Orange Lutheran; 1:20, Compton vs. Eastvale Roosevelt; 2:30, Studio City Harvard Westlake vs. Montebello Cantwell-Sacred Heart; 3:40, Encino Crespi vs. L.A. Cathedral.
“Ron Massey Hoops Classic”: 5, Redondo Union vs. Chino Hills; 6:10, Torrance Bishop Montgomery vs. Chatsworth Sierra Canyon; 7:20, L.V. Bishop Gorman vs. Corona Centennial; 8:30, Mater Dei vs. L.B. Poly.
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