long beach fall hoops schedules

Well, we've finally gotten around to typing up the schedules for this weekend's 7th Annual Long Beach Fall Hoops Classic, which will run from September 10-12 at Long Beach City College. This is another one of those certified NCAA-events, where college coaches will (hopefully) be out in droves watching all the talent in SoCal hooping it up. And there will be plenty of coaches around too, since some of the top teams and players will be in attendance. As Frank Burlison noted yesterday in his OC Register column, expect to see UCLA's Steve Lavin (and probably Jim Saia as well since he didn't get that UTEP job he was interviewing for, which went instead to Oklahoma assistant James Rabedoux), Henry Bibby, Silvy Dominguez, and several other top D-I coaches. Ben Braun of Cal probably won't be there (and we shouldn't be there either, because it's Rosh Hashanah, but we'll probably be able to sneak in a couple of games. . . and by the way, the issue of scheduling the open evaluation during this period is something the NCAA should consider for next year. . . remember Sandy Koufax?. . . but we digress).

If you're going, the games start on Friday at 4:00 p.m. at two locations: Long Beach City College (in the Main Gym and across the way in the Auxiliary Gym), and at Long Beach Millikan HS. On Saturday, the games will start at 9:00 a.m., and a third venue will be added: Long Beach Jordan HS. With the last game starting at 10:15 p.m., we'd expect the games to conclude just before midnight on Friday and Saturday. The Championship is scheduled for Sunday at 7:00 p.m. at the Long Beach City College Main Gym.

Here's the schedule insofar as we know it as of September 8. Note, there could be changes, additions or corrections, but this is what Dinos sent us as of this morning. Here's the schedule for Friday, September 10, 1999:

Friday	LBCC Main Gym	LBCC Auxiliary Gym	Long Beach Millikan
4:00 p.m.	The Hood v. ICAN All Stars	QBL Lakewood v. Orange County Hawks
5:15 p.m.	Compton Magic v. Shooting Stars	Redondo v. 1 Tough School	TPI v. ABA-USA Hoops
6:30 p.m.	BWBA I v. Orange County Rebels	Belmont Shore II v. Future Stars Elite	Monsters v. West Coast Academy
7:45 p.m.	Intensity Basketball v. No Limit	ARC Burbank v. North Riverside	ABC Hoops v. Total Impact
9:00 p.m.	Belmont Shore I v. ARC-Team Dynamo	San Diego Alleycats v. Camp Exposure	IEBP v. Inland
10:15 p.m.	EBO-EA v. ARC Los Angeles	805 Express v. Arizona Stars	Bay Area Ballers v. H. Squad

Saturday	LBCC Main Gym	LBCC Auxiliary Gym
9:00 a.m.	ABC v. Shooting Stars	Compton Magic v. Total Impact
10:15 a.m.	Arizona Stars v. Monsters	805 Express v. West Coast Academy
11:30 a.m.	QBL-Lakewood v. Camp Exposure	The Hood v. Intensity Basketball
12:45 p.m.	Belmont Shore I v. Inland	BWBA I v. Redondo
2:00 p.m.	EBO-EA Sports v. Belmont Shore II	Shooting Stars v. Total Impact
3:15 p.m.	Bay Area Ballers v. On2Hoop Future Stars	Hype Squad v. BWBA II
4:30 p.m.	Compton Magic v. ABC	805 Express v. Monsters of the Midway
5:45 p.m.	BWBA I v. 1 Tough School of Basketball	ICAN All-Stars v. Intensity Basketball
7:00 p.m.	EBO-EA Sports v. Future Stars Elite	Top Prospects v. ARC Burbank
8:15 p.m.	Belmont Shore v. IEBP Originals	ABA USA Hoops v. North Riverside
9:30 p.m.	1nd Place Pool H v. 1st Place Pool I	2nd Place Pool H v. 2nd Place Pool I

Saturday	LB Millikan HS	Long Beach Jordan HS
9:00 a.m.	On2Hoop Future Stars v. BWBA II
10:15 a.m.	Orange County Hawks v. San Diego Alleycats	IEBP Originals v. ARC Team Dynamo
11:30 a.m.	ICAN All-Stars v. No Limit	Orange County Rebeles v. 1 Tough School
12:45 p.m.	ARC-Los Angeles v. Future Stars Elite	Top Prospects v. North Riverside
2:00 p.m.	ARC Burbank v. ABA-USA Hoops	Camp Exposure v. O.C. Hawks
3:15 p.m.	Arizona Stars v. West Coast Academy	QBL-Lakewood v. San Diego Alleycats
4:30 p.m.	The Hood v. No Limit	Redondo v. O.C. Rebels
5:45 p.m.	Belmont Shore II v. ARC Los Angeles	Inland v. ARC Team Dynamo
7:00 p.m.	Hype Squad v. On2Hoop Future Stars	Bay Area Ballers v. BWBA II

Sunday will feature all playoffs, and we'll wait to do the schedule for that since at this point it's really meaningless, except to note that it looks like there's only a winner's bracket in single elimination. A bit more meaningful, at least at this point, are the pool play assignments. Here are the pools:

Pool A QBL-Lakewood San Diego Alleycats Camp Exposure Orange County Hawks	Pool B The Hood ICAN All Stars Intensity Basketball No Limit	Pool C EBO-EA Sports ARC Los Angeles Belmont Shore II Future Stars Elite	Pool D Belmont Shore I Inland IEBP Originals ARC Team Dynamo
Pool E BWBA I Redondo 1 Tough School of BBall Orange County Rebels	Pool F Top Prospects North Riverside ARC Burbank ABA-USA Hoops	Pool G On2Hoop Future Stars Bay Area Ballers Hype Squad BWBA II	Pool H 805 Express Arizona Stars Monsters of the Midway West Coast Academy
Pool I Compton Magic ABC Shooting Stars Total Impact