roundball classic rosters

Most folks are aware that a graduating senior player is allowed to play in only two "All-Star" type games under NCAA rules. We've already featured the rosters for the "Big One", the McDonald's All-American game, but there is one other game which just about rivals that one, and that's the Magic Roundball Classic, which will be played this year at the Palace at Auburn Hills, Michigan on April 3. Many of the same players selected for the McDonald's game will also appear in this one, but there are a few different personnel. And only Jason Kapono from the SoCal area was selected for the Roundball Classic. Here are the East and West rosters:

West Team

East Team

Jonathan Bender (6'-11" C) Picayune (Miss.)
Carlos Boozer (6'-8" PF) Juneau-Douglas (Juneau, Alaska)
Michael Dunleavy (6'-6" SG) Jesuit (Portland, Ore.)
Jason Kapono (6'-8" SG/SF/PF) Artesia (Lakewood, Calif.)
Brett Nelson (6'-3" G) St. Albans (W.Va.)
Jason Richardson (6'-6" F) Arthur Hill (Saginaw, Mich.)
Kenny Satterfield (6'-2" G) Rice (Manhattan, N.Y.)
Brent Darby (6'-1" G) River Rouge (Mich.)
Joe Johnson (6'-7" F) Central (Little Rock)
George Williams (6'-7" F) Elkins (Missouri City, Texas.)

Lavell Blanchard (6'-7" G) Pioneer (Ann Arbor, Mich)
Keith Bogans (6'-4" G) DeMatha (Hyattsville, Md.)
Donnell Harvey (6'-7" F) Randolph Clay (Cuthbert, Ga.)
DerMarr Johnson (6'-9" F) MCI (Pittsfield, Maine)
Leon Smith (6'-10" C) Martin Luther King (Chicago)
Matt Bonner (6'-9" F) Concord (N.H.)
Matt Carroll (6'-5" G) Hatboro-Horsham (Horsham, Pa.)
Majestic Mapp (6'-1" G) St. Raymond's (Bronx, N.Y.)
Tony Robertson (6'-3" G) St. Andrew's (Barrington, R.I.)
Deshaun Williams (6'-3" G) Paterson (N.J.) Catholic.

In the West, Bender (Mississippi State) and Nelson (Florida) are future Southeastern Conference players, and Richardson signed with Michigan State. Satterfield, who has led his team to a No. 3 ranking in the USA Today Super 25 earlier in the year, signed with Cincinnati. Dunleavy, son of NBA Portland Trail Blazers coach Mike Dunleavy, will attend Duke.Darby has signed with Ohio State, Johnson with Arkansas and Williams with Houston. In the East, Carroll (Notre Dame), Robertson (Connecticut) and Williams (Syracuse) are future Big East players. Bonner signed with Florida and Mapp will attend Virginia.

And on the Carlos Boozer front, for those interested in such things, this is according to Tracy Pierson, who is now writing for PacWestHoops: Carlos Boozer will reportedly announce his college selection immediately before the Roundball Classic game at a press conference to be held on April 3 at 11:30 a.m. And apparently neither the game, nor the press conference, will be televised live; the game will be broadcast the following Monday on ESPN and then replayed again on Tuesday. Carlos will announce at the press conference whether he's picking UCLA, Duke or St. Johns. Whoowee.