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CHANDLER, Az. – Saturday’s overwhelming performance by the Paolo Banchero-led West team, and a terrific close-the-game effort by the South squad, set the table for the Sunday afternoon title game in the first-ever Pangos All-American Festival.

The West vs. South title game is set to tip off at 1 p.m. (MT) at Compass Prep in this Phoenix suburb.

It follows the Midwest vs. East game for third place at 11 a.m.

Because of COVID-19 conditions, no spectators (other than Compass Prep and Pangos staff, coaches and players, family and a few media members) will be in the building.

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LA GRANGE, IL – J.J. Taylor converted a lob pass from Kenwood Academy teammate Darrin Ames Jr. into a game-ending dunk to cap the Pangos All-Midwest Frosh/Soph Basketball Camp with a bang Sunday afternoon in the Park District sports facility in this Chicago suburb.

Taylor, a 6-foot-8 sophomore who attended Chicago Morgan Park as a freshman with the 6-1 Ames, scored his 28^th and 29 points of the Top 30 Cream of the Crop All-Star game in a “sudden-victory overtime” to give his team wearing white jerseys a 78-76 victory over its black jerseys-sporting counterparts.

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LA GRANGE, IL – Six-foot-eleven Baye Fall had a couple of quality opportunities Saturday to make an on-case statement as to why his supporters can claim he’s the No. 1 prospect in high school basketball’s national Class of 2023.

And he certainly made the most of both of them.

Fall (pictured) stood out – both literally and figuratively – among the 240 players who took part in the first day of the annual Pangos All-Midwest Frosh/Soph Camp at the Park District sports facility in this Chicago suburb.

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DUNCANVILLE, Texas – Athletes on the rosters of high school programs in nine states were among the players in the Top 30 Cream of the Crop Game that wrapped up the 15^th annual Pangos All-South Frosh/Soph Camp Sunday afternoon in the Duncanville Fieldhouse.

Sophomores from Texas (Robert Jones Jr.), Louisiana (Christopher Lockett Jr.) and Oklahoma (Brandon Garrison/pictured) shared camp Most Outstanding Player honors as determined by event director Dinos Trigonis and his advisory committee.

Five-foot-eleven sophomore point guard TJohnn Brown (South High in Garland, TX), with 10 points, four assists and three steals, was selected the Top 30 contest’s Most Outstanding Player after lead the white jerseys to a 103-95 victory.

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DUNCANVILLE, Texas – The annual, two-day Pangos All-South Frosh/Soph Camp, held in the spiffy Duncanville Fieldhouse, tipped off Saturday afternoon.

As always, the event – which attracted 200-plus players (with more expected Sunday) – and included a significant percentage of the better current freshmen and sophomores from within Texas, as well as Louisiana, Oklahoma and New Mexico.

But it the camp’s depth of quality prospects also expanded to Alabama, Tennessee and Florida, as well as such distinctly non-Southern/Southwestern states as Minnesota and California.

The players were divided into 24 teams, with games played on three of the facility’s six courts, and each squad playing twice over the course of the eight sets of games that wrapped up about 9 o’clock (CT) Saturday evening.

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