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ST. LOUIS – It took two days and Tuesday night’s session of games but I’ve watched each of the Nike Elite 100 Camp’s 10 teams play at least once.

As is always the case, a hefty portion of the nation’s upcoming junior and sophomore classes – in this case, Classes of 2021 and ’22, respectively – have been on display in Saint Louis University’s Simon Recreation Center.

I’m going to give you a list of the 10 players that most impressed me over the Monday and Tuesday games and drills minus the western-based guys such as Devin Askew and Wilhelm Breidenbach (Santa Ana, CA, Mater Dei), Paolo Banchero (Seattle O’Dea), Jaxon Kohler (Mt.

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PHOENIX – The Las Vegas Bishop Gorman Gaels used the championship game of the All About People bracket Sunday at Brophy Prep on the final day of the Section 7 Team Camp to demonstrate why they’ll be the top-ranked team in the west going into the 2019-20 season.

Coach Grant Rice’s team used superior overall quickness and the sizzling jump shooting of junior-to-be Will McClendon to knock off the likely No. 2-in-the-west Santa Ana (CA) Mater Dei Monarchs, 79-66.

McClendon hit six of his eventual seven 3-pointers in the first half while scoring a game-high 23 points to wrap up a 4-for-4 weekend that included victories over Skyline of Arizona, 72-59, Stockton (CA) Weston Ranch, 81-66, and Oakland Bishop O’Dowd, 78-56.

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PHOENIX – Sunday’s final day of the first Section 7 Team Camp is set to bare the basketball “fruit” of a whole lot of work on the part of event organizers’ and high school players and coaches that have made this three-day gathering such a success for all concerned.

Championship games and consolation contests in 10 divisions – one of those for top-flight girls’ squads – are set for Sunday, with shapes of as a whopper showdown for the title in the “All About People” bracket.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Juniors-to-be Paolo Banchero and Chet Holmgren picked up the top individual honors Saturday evening following the conclusion of the 25^th NBPA Top 100 Camp in John Paul Jones Arena – the home of the University of Virginia 2019 national championship program.

The 6-foot-11, 180-pound Holmgren (Minneapolis) was tabbed – by the John Lucas-led camp players’ selection committee – was chosen Most Outstanding Player for Saturday’s 10-team, bracket playoff after he and his “Spurs” teammates knocked off the “Knicks”, 100-83, in the final game.

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  NORWALK – The 17^th Pangos All-American Camp wrapped up Sunday afternoon at Cerritos College with 60 or so players playing in the event’s two all-star games and with a lot of future college standouts among those non selected to the all-star camps.

   That’s the caliber of prep basketball talent that annually participates in this event – it’s loaded with guys on the path to college scholarships and, for the very best, the NBA.

  And, to no fault of how they might have performed, a lot of gifted and hard-working players, among the 108 who played over the weekend, didn’t make the all-star cut.

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