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PARKER, Co. – What perspective was to be gathered from the middle school day of play during the first-ever Pangos All-Colorado Camp Saturday at Legend High in this suburb of Denver?

It’s quite simple, really:

There are quite a few promising seventh- and eighth-grade male hoopsters in Colorado – and a few pretty gifted sixth-graders, as well.

Approximately 90 players participated and were spread among 10 teams, each of those playing twice before the competition wrapped up in mid-afternoon with one all-star game made up of sixth- and seventh-graders and another for the eighth graders who impressed yours truly along with Christian Popoola (Las Vegas-based Elite Athletic Training), Joel Francisco (the Long Beach, California-based recruiting analyst for ESPN.com

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            LAGUNA NIGUEL, Ca. – And so it’s upon us  . . .

The 2013-14 college hoops season has its official tipoff today (Nov. 8).

What follows are my projected teams to be playing in the second week of the tournament.

The first four, naturally (do the math), are the teams I think have the best shot of getting to the Final Four.

These picks are pretty much, with a few tweaks, in the order that I projected for Lindy’s College Basketball Yearbook.

There is inevitably a “Final Four surprise”.

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LAGUNA NIGUEL, Ca. – The 2013-14 college hoops season begins, in earnest, on Friday.

It’ll wrap up – we should hope just as earnestly, thank you very much – with the April 7 NCAA title game at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

There’s going to be a lot of games played on and between those dates.

And what follows is a list of the players I’ve projecting to make up the 50 best, across all classes, topped by first- and second-team All-America choices.

There are seven very good – obviously – freshmen on the list, each of which is capable of landing All-America honors come March.

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CYPRESS, Ca. – The second annual West Coast Showcase, held Sunday from mid-morning through early afternoon at Cypress Community College in this western-most Orange County city, served as a showcase of sorts for the Superior Athletes Basketball club program.

Of course, there were plenty of quality non-Superior Athletes on display, too, among the 60 or so players who got in two games each in front of prep hoops/recruiting analysts analysts including yours truly, Joel Francisco (ESPN.com), Aaron Burgin (Full-Time Hoops), Ronnie Flores (Cal-Hi Sports) and Devin Ugland (the rising sports-writing star from the Orange County Register).

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THOROFARE, N.J. – Seventeen of the 25 players that were my choices as the best in the 2013 version of the Pangos All-East Frosh/Soph Camp reside in Pennsylvania and Maryland.

And, with 11 of those players residents of Philadelphia or reasonably near-by communities, it only figured that a Philly lad sparkle brighter than anyone in the Top 30 Cream of the Crop Game that wrapped of things in the two-day event Sunday afternoon.

Freshman point guard Quade Green of Neumann-Goretti sparked the team wearing the white sides of the camp jerseys to an 87-78 victory, approximately an hour after the squad wearing white pulled away from a team in black jerseys for an 86-81 win in the Top 60 contest.

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