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GARDEN GROVE, Ca. – The 11^th Southern California Hoop Review – arguably the top spring “evaluation event” in the West that will be held outside of the one weekend that NCAA coaches can attend – is on tap Saturday and Sunday at the Next Level Sports Complex.

Action begins at 9:30 each morning and wraps up at about 9:30 in the evening.

Approximately 110 Western-based club program teams are scheduled to participate, including Superior Athletes (led by a trio of 2015 standouts in Kendall Small, Stephen Thompson Jr and Jeremy Hemsley); Cal Supreme (Michael Cage Jr.,

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PORTLAND, OR – The World Select squad has knocked off its USA Select counterpart in the past couple of Nike Hoop Summit games.

How strong are the 2014 World squad’s chances of pulling a third consecutive win Saturday night in the Rose Garden?

I would say “darn strong”, based upon what I observed in three days’ worth of the respective teams practices (including a Team USA scrimmage vs. a group of former college players Thursday night in the Portland Trail Blazers’ training facility) I watched.

Those chances would be significant if only because of the presence on the World team of three players that were together with all 11 Team USA players during the McDonald’s All-American Game festivities last week in Chicago.

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PARKER, Co. – Based upon the quality of players in attendance Sunday – and the caliber of play by those athletes – five words are all that are needed to describe the first-ever West Coast Elite Scouts Camp/Colorado at Legend High:

“It was a smashing success.”

Many of the best high school players in Colorado were on hand, with a healthy heaping of quality players from California, Nevada, Minnesota, Montana and Nebraska sprinkled in, as well.

First and foremost from among the in-state participants was one of the elite post prospects in the national Class of 2016.

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PARKER, Co. – Day I of the West Coast Elite Scouts Saturday at Legend High looked a lot like the opening day of the All-Colorado Camp held by event director Ryan Silver of the Earl Watson Elite program back in early November.

And that’s a good thing.

That session featured a lot of the best basketball players that Colorado has to offer in the current eighth-, seventh-, sixth- and even fifth-grade classes.

And that was case again Saturday when many of those same athletes showed up Saturday morning.

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The last three games of the 2014 NCAA Tournament are going to have to be dandies, indeed, to equal the best of the first 64 games of the event played over the past two weeks.

*Seven games needed overtimes to determine winners.

*Non-OT games included 13 decided by five or fewer points –six of those by two points and one by a single point.

My, oh, my . . .

Here is one person’s – mine – choice for the Top 10 most entertaining, well-played and compelling (often with difference doses of each) of the 64 already on the books:

 

1. Kentucky 78, Wichita State 76 (Midwest Round of 32/St.

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