slam n jam tuesday pool schedule

Slam-N-Jam National Invitational
Pool Play Schedule For Tuesday--(July 20, 1998)

You need to know where to be tomorrow, so let us help you out. We're going to be splitting our time at the NIT and the Pump Brothers Best of Summer. And Issy Washington faxed us all of the pool play schedules for the NIT, and it's clear that tomorrow, things really get hopping at all five locations (actually six, if you count the two different gyms at CSULB, East and West). We'll list a couple of our "games to see" at the end of the schedule below, but for now, here's the schedule:

1:00 pm	Carson HS	Fast Break I v. Modesto Slam
2:15 p.m	Carson HS	ARC I v. Yellow Jackets
3:30 p.m.	Carson HS	Dallas Dirty Dozen II v. ICAN II
4:45 p.m.	Carson HS	Bay Area Ballers I v. Carson BBall
6:00 p.m.	Carson HS	Oregon Quaxe v. Pacific Bruins
7:15 p.m.	Carson HS	All Ohio Red v. BWBA II

7:45 p.m.	Compton HS	Oregon Nike v. Dallas Dirty Dozen II
9:00 p.m.	Compton HS	Philadelphia Rines v. South Coast Hoops

8:00 a.m.	CSULB East	Team Nebraska v. Fast Break II
9:15 a.m.	CSULB East	Colorado BB v. Arlington Texas
10:30 a.m.	CSULB East	Bay Area Ballers II v. Dallas Dirty Dozen I
5:00 p.m.	CSULB East	Inland v. ICAN I
10:00 p.m.	CSULB East	Bay Area Ballers I v. Arizona YBAA

8:30 a.m.	CSULB West	North Omaha Bears v. ARC I
9:45 a.m.	CSULB West	Perris Lions v. Philadelphia Rines
11:00 a.m.	CSULB West	Emerald City v. ARC Blazers
12:15: p.m.	CSULB West	BWBA West I v. Sea Hawks BB
1:30 p.m.	CSULB West	Texas Blue Chip v. Inter-Cities Hoops
2:45 p.m.	CSULB West	NYC Riverside Church v. Pacific Bruins
4:00 p.m.	CSULB West	Northern Stars SD v. Slam-n-Jam I
5:15 p.m.	CSULB West	Dallas Slam-n-Jam I v. Team Nebraska
6:30 p.m.	CSULB West	Colorado BB v. TPI Silver
7:45 p.m.	CSULB West	Cal/NY Rhinos v. So.Cal. All Stars
9:00 p.m.	CSULB West	BWBA I v. Long Island Panthers
10:15 p.m.	CSULB West	Texas Blue Chip v. H. Pulley, MN

1:30 p.m	Dominguez HS	TPI Silver v. Omaha Godfathers Pizza
2:45 p.m.	Dominguez HS	Arizona YBAA v. Portland Legends
4:00 p.m.	Dominguez HS	Dallas Dirty Dozen I v. ARC Burbank
5:15 p.m.	Dominguez HS	Inflight BB v. Dallas Slam-n-Jam
6:30 p.m.	Dominguez HS	USA Slam v. North Omaha Bears
7:45 p.m.	Dominguez HS	Inter-Cities Hoops v. SW Oregon I
9:00 p.m.	Dominguez HS	Inter-Cities Hoops I v. SW Oregon II
10:15 p.m.	Dominguez HS	Yellow Jackets v. USA Slam

10:30 a.m.	Wilson HS	Fairfield CA v. Northern Stars, SD
11:45 a.m.	Wilson HS	BWBA I v. Dallas Slam-n-Jam
1:00 p.m.	Wilson HS	Inland v. Beaumont Lions
2:15 p.m.	Wilson HS	Sea Hawks v. Elite BB Academy
3:30 p.m.	Wilson HS	South Coast Hoops v. Arizona Stars III
4:45 p.m.	Wilson HS	ABC Hoops v. Bay Area Ballers II
6:00 p.m.	Wilson HS	Minnesota Carts v. Fast Break II
7:15 p.m.	Wilson HS	Arizona Stars I v. Fast Break I
8:30 p.m.	Wilson HS	Portland Legends v. ARC Blazers
9:45 p.m.	Wilson HS	Cecil Kirk, Balt. v. Fairfield, CA

Games to see: 4:45 p.m. at Carson, Bay Area Ballers v. Carson BB; 2:45 at CSULB West it's Riverside Church, one of the top teams in the country. At 9:00 pm it's Bob Gottlieb's Branch West Basketball Academy I team going against the very powerful Long Island Panthers, fresh off their sweet 16 Vegas trip.

We'll have the rest of the pool play schedule, with Wednesday's games, in a little while. Following pool play, the tournament splits into two brackets, a Championship Bracket, which plays Thursday, Friday and culminates in Saturday Championship games. The final is at 8:00 p.m. in the West Gym at Cal State Long Beach, and the consolation Championship is set for Saturday at 4:30 p.m. also in the West Gym.

The teams that don't make it to the Championship Bracket from pool play (only the top two teams go on), i.e., the 3rd and 4th place teams in each bracket, are placed into the "Friendship Bracket," which is a great euphemism for "losers bracket." Hey, did we say that? Actually, in watching all of these tournaments, the one thing you come to discover is that there's no such thing as a "losers" bracket. Actually "Friendship Bracket" has a pretty nice ring to it, and it's pretty accurate with the way these tournaments end up, since a lot of players play for different teams and over the years, everyone ends up knowing each other and becoming pretty friendly anyway.