Frank Burlison

LA VERNE, CA – Many of the elite boys high school basketball programs in Southern California – and beyond – will tip off on Thursday’s first day of The Classic at Damien.

The eighth annual event has a field of 128 teams, made of up eight, 16-team divisions.

Sixteen games, split between the Platinum (Athletic Center) and Gold (Event Center) brackets, will be played on Damien’s campus Thursday, beginning with the Platinum game pitting Redondo Union (10-1 and No. 5 in the BurlisonOnBasketball SoCal Top 30) against Sacramento Destiny Christian (4-2).

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LAGUNA NIGUEL – The St. John Bosco and Eastvale Roosevelt boys’ basketball teams, who remain in the top spots of the updated BurlisonOnBasketball SoCal Top 30, head the field for the Platinum Division of the eighth The Classic at Damien, which tips off Thursday morning at Damien and other sites near the school’s La Verne campus.

If each win their first three games, they will play on Dec. 30 in a rematch of last year’s division finale that was won by Roosevelt, 68-65, behind event Most Outstanding Player Brayden Burries.

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LAS VEGAS – The “Big Three” of Eastvale Roosevelt High boys’ basketball team came through in its usual fashion Saturday during the championship game of the 12^th Tarkanian Classic Platinum Division at Bishop Gorman.

But it was the efforts of the players accompanying Brayden Burries, Myles Walker and Issac Williamson that also were also huge reasons why the Mustangs knocked off Sherman Oaks Notre Dame, 76-58.

The “SoCal Showdown” pitted the No.’s 2 (11-1 Roosevelt) and 3 (12-1 Notre Dame) teams in last week’s BurlisonOnBasketball Southern California ratings.

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LAS VEGAS – It could be a preview of a February – or March – Open Division boys basketball playoff game in Southern California.

Even if that doesn’t prove the case,  the Eastvale Roosevelt vs. Sherman Oaks Notre Dame clash at 4:30 Saturday afternoon in the Bishop Gorman gymnasium should be nothing short of a sizzling matchup between two of better teams in Southern California – and beyond.

It will also decide the winner of the Platinum Division of one of the country’s top pre-Christmas events, the 12^th Tarkanian Classic.

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LAS VEGAS – Three Southern California-based boys’ basketball programs will be joined by a gifted club from Utah in Friday night’s Platinum Division semifinals of the 12^th Tarkanian Classic.

In the first, played at 7 o’clock in the Orleans Hotel Arena, the Eastvale Roosevelt Mustangs – No. 2 in the BurlisonOnBasketball SoCal Top 30 – faces No. 5 Redondo Union of Redondo Beach.

In the 8:30 clash, No. 3 Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks takes on Layton (UT) Christian Academy.

All the Tarkanian Classic games are live-streamed and archived by BallerTV.

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