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RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Ca. – The first “Inland’s Finest Spring Showcase” was touted as providing some of the best high school players in and around the Inland Empire of Southern California an opportunity to demonstrate their hoops skills against one another.

And about six or so of hours of action in the Chaffey Community College gymnasium Saturday proved that it was definitely a case of “truth in advertising”.

The event, put together in fine fashion by Keith Howard and Julius Patterson of the Inland Empire Basketball Program, brought together quality high school players with definite futures as college players, as well.

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RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Ca. – Many of the Inland Empire area’s best high school-aged basketball players will be on display today at Chaffey Community College during the first Inland’s Finest Spring Showcase.

The event, hosted by Keith Howard and Julius Patterson of the Inland Empire Basketball Program but open to players affiliated with any travel/club program in the region, begins at 1 o’clock with a game involving freshmen.

Four games follow: Contests involving sophomores at 2 and 3; one for juniors at 4 and a seniors contest at 5 o’clock to wrap up things.

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LAGUNA NIGUEL, Ca. – The 2015-16 Southern California high school basketball season was an extremely impressive one for freshmen.

It was so much so, in fact, that it was difficult to limit the BurlisonOnBasketball SoCal all-Class of 2019 squad to just a dozen members.

Some players I believe to be NCAA Division I prospects didn’t make the cut.

How collectively good are the 12 players I selected?

The list is so good that it would surprise me in the least if four or five – or more – of the players prove to be McDonald’s All-America selections three years from now.

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SUWANEE, Ga. – Keeping from growing exasperated while trying to figure out which of seven courts in the Suwanee Sports Academy to stand near over two days was quite the chore.

And sprinting (figuratively, of course; I actually had a rental car) to the Berkmar High gymnasium in Lilburn for a Saturday 8 a.m. tip-off for the Colorado Hawks and New England Playaz in the 16s division, and then almost immediately navigating myself to Suwanee’s Peachtree Ridge High for another 16s game between the Compton Magic and Team Loaded (the Virginia variety) wasn’t quite peachy keen, either.

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SUWANEE, Ga. – Romeo Langford was selected National Sophomore of the Year by MaxPreps last week.

And his used the two adidas Gauntlet games he played with the Eric Gordon All-Stars Saturday to show the large gathering of college coaches, media and assorted other interested on-lookers in the Suwanee Sports Academy why the honored was bestowed upon him.

The 6-foot-5 and oh-so-smooth Langford scored 20 and 29 points, respectively, to help his team knock off Team Fast of Oregon (56-54) and Team Loaded of North Carolina (77-72, in overtime).

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