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Change is on the way in youth hoops

By Mark Lewis
HoopGurlz

Thursday, September 24, 2009

The growth and evolution of the summer club basketball landscape has been something that I've watched closely over the past 26 years as a college coach and more recently an evaluator and columnist. The tremendous leap in the level of play has been staggering, just as the number of participants has gone through the roof. In that time, as we've noted many times before, there's also been a massive proliferation of NCAA-certified events. This summer alone the NCAA certified 169 events that D ...

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