Prep Hoops Top 250 Expo: The Place to Be This Fall
It’s now the middle of August and school is right around the corner. Don’t get flustered, the fall also means it’s time for the Prep Hoops Expo Top 250, the event some of the best players in the country are attending, and you can join them!
This year the Prep Hoops Top 250 Expos is in 28 cities around the country going south to Houston/Dallas, traveling west to California, east to the hot bed of basketball in the Virginia/Maryland/DC area, and in the Midwest in the Twin Cities as well as Sioux Falls. A chance for just about every high school basketball player in the country to compete in a fun/competitive event led by top area basketball coaches/trainers playing in front of Prep Hoops writers and area college coaches.
Prep Hoops has scheduled 28 events in all, with 27 of them dated in September. This weekend the tip-off of the events is in Louisiana this Saturday. The Sportsplex in Baton Rouge will host the Prep Hoops Expo led by Matt Reynolds, a Prep Hoops veteran in the south who has ran over 20 Prep Hoops events in the past four years.
This is a chance for talent in the state of Louisiana – and surrounding states – to become educated on the college basketball recruitment that will soon be a part of the lives of players (and that includes all levels of junior college basketball, NAIA hoops, the division three level, division two basketball, and of course the D1 level of basketball).
What makes the Prep Hoops Top 250 Expos even more exciting is the quality of talent that will be competing. The Top 250 Expo is more than a chance to learn about being recruited, it’s a chance to compete against, or with top players in front of those schools that will be recruiting you in the future.
This Saturday in Baton Rouge, 6-foot-5 2019 shooting guard Gregory Hammond of New Orleans – who has offers from Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Tulane, Richmond and several others – he will bring his game to the Prep Hoops Top 250 Expo. Hammond is one of the top talents in the state of Louisiana as is DJ Burns, a 6-foot-6 small forward who will also be at the Expo. Burns has offers from UAB, Tulane, and several others. Six-foot-1 guard Rodney Munson of Bonnabel is also expected to compete in Baton Rouge as will several other top players in the state.
Louisiana isn’t the only Expo location that will bring some of the area’s best – which doubles as nation’s best for many of these names – to the Expo courts. Jaedon Bradley will be one of the elite seniors in Colorado this year and he will be competing at the event held in the Gold Crown Fieldhouse on September 9th directed by Prep Hoops founder and co-owner Nick Carroll.
At the end of September in Sioux Falls some of the best players in South Dakota – including Jared Jaros, Gavin Schipper, and Dawson Paulsen among others, will be playing in front of Mount Mary College, Jamestown, and the several others that have registered their attendance.
In the next month Prep Hoops will unveil the latest Top 250 national prospect rankings and the state of Florida will have as many names listed as any of the 50 states. So when we tell you that 7-8 of the top 50 players in the state – a list that includes Kuany Kuany, Jalen White, Taylor Trudeau, and more – are playing in the event you know there will be talent there. Nearly 20 college programs from the state of Florida have already registered to see the talent competing. The same can be said for the Top 250 Expo held in Georgia that will include Eric Coleman, Mitch Ganote, and many other scholarship level players.
Talented guard Keyon Thomas will attend the Expo in Kansas, big man Caleb Hodgson out of Michigan is a top ten player in the state and he will be at the Expo in Michigan, top ten talent in Nevada Damion Bonty is registered for the event at the Tarkanian Basketball Academy in Las Vegas (ran by former UCLA great Kris Johnson), top five Oklahoma talent Antonio Gordon is competing in Oklahoma, and Wisconsin’s top senior big man prospect Nobal Days will be at the Wisconsin Top 250 Expo.
The Minnesota event the second weekend of September already has 20 colleges registered and there they can see two of the top available point guards in the state Jared Rainey and Sam Nissen plus Wisconsin committed Tyler Wahl (a nationally rated four star recruit) will be at the event to compete.
Those are just the seniors registered for the event. We didn’t even get into all of the well known younger players – including 2020 Corey Smooth in Louisiana this weekend – who have registered to compete in the Top 250 Expos around the country.
So get their early, compete hard, get a look at the “I Got Buckets at the Expo”, “Rise Above the Rest”, and “Respect is Earned” gear from Prep Hoops, and come away with an excellent day of basketball on the biggest fall stage you will find, the Prep Hoops Top 250 Expo!