Las Vegas Wrap Up
While other cities like Louisville and Kansas City hosted club basketball tournaments this past weekend, the epicenter of the club basketball world was Las Vegas, Nevada. There was over 700 teams from across the nation playing in four different tournaments: The Adidas 64, Fab 48, the Las Vegas Classic and The Vegas Finals. All of these tournaments hosted Colorado teams and Basketball Colorado was able to get to three of the tournaments and take in games of 13 different teams.
Billups Elite 17 – Fab 48
Billups Elite 16 – Fab 48
Colorado Chaos 17 – Fab 48
Colorado Chaos 16 – Fab 48
Colorado Connect 17 – Fab 48
Colorado Titians 16 – Fab 48 and Las Vegas Classic
Colorado Hawks 17 – Adidas Super 64
Colorado Hawks 16 – Adidas Super 64
Colorado Hawks 15 – Adidas Super 64
Colorado Miners 17 – Fab 48
Colorado Miners 16 – Fab 48
Colorado Miners 15* – Fab 48 attended but the other team did not show.
The Force Elite 17 – Las Vegas Classic
Most of the Colorado teams were done with there respective tournaments by Saturday but three advanced to championship Sunday, the Colorado Miners Elite 17 , Colorado Titans 16 Gold, and B&B Basketball Academy Blue. The Miners advanced to the semis of the Fab48 17 Diamond Bracket while the Titans Gold advanced to the quarterfinals of the 16 Platinum Bracket at the Las Vegas Classic. B&B Academy Blue finished the Las Vegas Classic with the 17 Bronze Bracket championship.
Best performances
Jake Holtzmann (Colorado Hawks 17) 29 point effort against Minn D1
DeRon Davis (Colorado Hawks 17) 25 points versus Team Fast
Justinian Jessup (Colorado Titans 16) 17 point first half
Didn’t get to see it (he had 19 the game I saw) but Thomas Neff (Colorado Miners Elite 17) had a 26 point game and a game winning 30 footer to push the Miners into the semi’s of the Diamond Bracket of the Fab48.
David Thornton (Colorado Hawks 16’s) had 33 points versus Florida Elite
Stock Risers
Justin Bassey (Billups Elite 16/ Colorado Academy)
Alpha Diallo (Colorado Hawks 16/ Denver West)
Sam Howard (Chaos Elite 16/ Colorado Springs Christian School)
Justinian Jessup (Colorado Titans 16/ Longmont)
Mitch Lombard (Colorado Hawks 17/ Rock Canyon)
Josh McNair (Colorado Connect Elite 17/ Thomas Jefferson)
Austin Mueller (Colorado Miners Elite 16/ ThunderRidge)
Thomas Neff (Colorado Miners Elite 17/ Arvada West)
Zach Pirog (Colorado Chaos Elite 17/ ThunderRidge)
Frank Ryder (Colorado Titans 16 / IMG)
LaDarius Thomas (Billups Elite 16/ Aurora Central)
Watch for more wrap ups by program in the coming days and look for player profiles to be updated soon as well.
