Over the following two days, Nice Grove will play host to a few of the greatest boys highschool basketball groups and gamers within the nation.
The 5 for the Combat Hoopfest begins Tuesday afternoon and runs via Wednesday evening. Eleven groups — seven from Utah and 4 from elsewhere — might be featured, with 5 video games being performed on every day.
4 of the video games — two on every day — will be considered on ESPN+.
So far as the Utah groups are involved, Wasatch Academy is the nationwide headliner, and Actual Salt Lake Academy, Nice Grove, Nook Canyon, Bingham, American Fork and Cyprus may even be taking part in.
The 4 groups from exterior Utah are a who’s who of nationwide powerhouses. Montverde Academy from Florida, Dawn Christian Academy from Kansas and AZ Compass Prep from Arizona had been Nos. 1-3 in MaxPreps’ preseason rankings of the highest groups in all the nation (Wasatch Academy was No. 8), and Bishop Walsh from Maryland is an elite program as effectively.
With these groups being so elite, maybe it comes as no shock that a few of the greatest gamers within the nation are on these squads.
Matas Buzelis (Dawn Christian) and Sean Stewart (Montverde Academy) are ranked by 247 Sports activities because the No. 7 and No. 8 greatest prospects within the nation for the category of 2023, and Kwame Evans Jr. (Montverde Academy), Mookie Prepare dinner (AZ Compass Prep) and Layden Blocker (Dawn Christian) are Nos. 11, 16 and 25, respectively.
Buzelis will flip professional after highschool and play for G League Ignite, Stewart has signed with Duke, Evans and Prepare dinner are headed to Oregon and Blocker goes to go to Arkansas.
Tickets to the occasion will be bought right here.