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THOROFARE, N.J. – The first day of the sixth annual Pangos All-East Frosh/Soph provided the distinct impression that things will be pretty much status quo for the event:

There are a whole lot of talented young basketball players on hand, showing off their skills in the RiverWinds Community Center.

Approximately 120 players showed up and plenty of them impressed Saturday, with the 12 camp teams playing a game each in the afternoon and evening.

Action continues Sunday morning at 9 o’clock, as each team will again play twice.

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LaGRANGE, IL – The city of Chicago, proper, was well-represented when it came time Sunday evening to sort out my choices for the best players I watched over the course of the two-day 2013 Pangos All-Midwest Frosh/Soph Camp at the Park District Recreation Center.

City programs Simeon (Zach Norvell, Josh Thomas and Ben Coupet), Morgan Park (Charlie Moore and Alonzo Chatman) and Whitney Young (Skylar Nash) accounted for six of the 17 sophomores among my choices for the Top 25 players I saw over the weekend.

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LAGRANGE, IL – Day I of the Pangos All-Midwest Frosh/Soph Camp is a wrap.

And consider this:

If freshman Brian Bowen (Saginaw, MI, Hill) has an encore on tap that is anything approaching his opening act on Saturday, there are going to be a whole lot of bedazzled onlookers Sunday at the Park District Recreation Center in this Chicago suburb.

Saturday the slender 6-foot-6 Bowen – who turned down the opportunity to visit Lexington Friday night for Kentucky’s Midnight Madness in order to play at this camp – put on a compelling on-court demonstration as to why his name belongs prominently in any discussion about the best of the best in the Class of 2017 when it comes to high school hoops.

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LEWISVILLE, TX – The second annual Pangos All-South Frosh/Soph Camp, held at the Metropolitan Athletic Center (MAC) in this suburban-Dallas town, wrapped up late Sunday afternoon the way it began early Saturday afternoon:

Some tall 10^th and ninth-graders showed off the kind of skills that should eventually make them among the most heavily recruited prospects in the country.

But there were plenty of “small” (relatively speaking, of course) to “mid-sized” players who demonstrated why there will be plenty of elite-level college programs in pursuit of them over the next few years, as well.

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LEWISVILLE, TX – One thing that was almost immediately quite obvious about the second annual Pangos All-South Frosh/Soph Camp Saturday at the Metro Athletic Center (MAC):

There was no shortage of very tall young men on hand and all of them appeared quite anxious to show how much skill and effort came along with that impressive size.

Among the best of the big fellows were a couple of non-U.S. citizens who are sure to have a lot of U.S. institutions of higher learning – academic and the kind acquired in arenas and gymnasiums – in pursuit of them before too long.

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