Young Prospects Shine at Southern Invitational

The Southern Invitational AAU Tournament hosted at the University of Virginia
over the weekend featured the best AAU teams from up and down the East Coast.
Teams congregated for two days of round robin action Friday night into Saturday
afternoon, capped by a bracket-style playoffs Saturday night and Sunday. In the
17-and-under division, it was CJ Harris and the CP3 All-Stars who exhibited ball
movement and team play unbecoming of an AAU squad and easily took out the
National Christian Academy in the championship, after barely escaping the
Georgia Ballers in round one the night before.

At the 16 and 15-and-unders, Boo Williams steamrolled through the competition
for most of the weekend. In something of an upset, however, it was Malcolm
Gilbert and Team Final who came back from down double digits to roll past Travis
McKie and Boo Williams in the 16-and-under championship. James McAdoo, Justin
Anderson, Levon Harper, Trey Davis, and the rest of the 15-and-unders of Boo
Williams, however, had no such trouble, as they went unchallenged into the
championship round and were simply too much for Team Phenom, as they won by
double digits.

In a tournament that has seen the likes of Sean Singletary, J.R. Reynolds,
Vernon Macklin, Wayne Ellington, Gerald Henderson, and O.J. Mayo, the field once
again represented the future of college basketball. Here are some of the players
that scouts had their eyes on and what they bring to the table.

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