Frank Burlison

LAS VEGAS – The 22^nd Pangos boys basketball All-American Camp wrapped up Tuesday afternoon with a couple of competitive and down-to-the wire all-star games at Bishop Gorman High.

In the Top 60 Cream of the Crop clash, 6-foot-7 Chuck Love III (from the Class of 2025; he attends La Lumiere in La Port, IN) scored 25 points to help the blue jerseys edge their red counterparts, 103-99.

And, in the event’s finale, the red jerseys – despite trailing by 12 points in the first half and six at intermission – used a dominant, Brayden Burries-sparked second half to knock off the blue jerseys, 114-106, in the Top 30 game.

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LAS VEGAS – Two of the top players in the camp could be matched up Tuesday morning as the third and final day of the 22^nd Pangos All-American boys’ basketball camp is set to tip.

When the North Carolina and Virginia camp squads hook up at 9:30 on Court 1, it’s likely that Tounde Yessoufou (St. Joseph of Santa Maria in central California) and Jacob Lanier (Maumelle in Arkansas) could go head-up at each end of the floor.

The 6-foot-6 Yessoufou (a Top 30 all-star selection here a year ago) is a probable Top 5 player here from the class of 2025 while the 6-6 Lanier ­(pictured, courtesy Devin Ugland) – the Most Outstanding Player at the Pangos All-South Frosh/Soph Camp in Texas last October – has been the standout from the class of 2026 over the first two days here.

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LAS VEGAS – Terrific backcourt play . . .

That tidily sums up my observations of Sunday’s first night of the 22^nd Pangos All-American Camp at Bishop Gorman High.

Brayden Burries (Roosevelt High in Eastvale in SoCal) and Jerry Easter (Toledo by way of La Lumiere Prep in La Porte, IN) – among the early front-runners for spots on the 2025 McDonald’s All-American team – were the lynchpins to eased-up wins by Notre Dame and Illinois, respectively, in the first round of game action.

The Notre Dame (82-69 vs.

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LAS VEGAS –  Sixteen Southern California-based boys’ basketball players are among the near-100 players listed on the roster for the 2024 Pangos All-American Camp, set to tip off later Sunday evening at Bishop Gorman High.

Among those players are a trio from Roosevelt in Eastvale in SoCal Junior of the Year Brayden Burries and classmates Issac Williamson and Myles Walker.

The Mustangs were 31-4 last season, with losses to eventual State Open champion Harvard-Westlake in the CIF Southern Section and State Southern Region Open title games.

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SAN GABRIEL – Kevin McCloskey, whose teams won CIF Southern Section titles in 2014 and ’23, is stepping down as the boys’ basketball coach and athletic director at San Gabriel Academy – effective Aug. 1 – he said Tuesday night.

McCloskey, who said he will go to work helping lead a “small financial company” when his duties at SGA are completed, coached his 13 teams to a cumulative 252-121 mark. During that stretch, he coached three CIF SS Players of the Year and 13 all-state selections.

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