锘匡豢锘縎ome of the top boys and girls high school basketball players will be on the court for the this weekend at the 91原创 Events Centre.
On the girls side, the six top AAA teams and eight of the top 10 will hit the court, including the Brookswood Bobcats.
The Bobcats open the season ranked number one and will battle the second-ranked Oak Bay Bays on Sunday at 3:30 p.m.
Brookswood lost in the B.C. senior girls AAA championship game last March.
On the boys side of the event, U.S. prep school powerhouse Findlay Prep 鈥� which is from Henderson, Nev. 鈥� will be headliners for the second straight year.
鈥淲e are excited to have all of the great basketball talent from the province committed to this event again this year,鈥� said Jared Harman, the director of business development for the 91原创 Events Centre.
鈥淗aving the top high school girls teams competing against each other will be a great way to start the basketball season and that will be capped off by seeing the best boys players in the province take on one of the best prep programs in the U.S.鈥�
The team, which is coached by former NBA player Jerome Williams, has several players who have already committed to NCAA Division 1 programs, as well as other highly-touted players who have yet to accept scholarship offers.
The Pilots are headlined by Rashad Vaughn, a six-foot-six shooting guard who is regarded as one of the top recruits at his position.
Some of the team's other top players are Kelly Oubre, a six-foot-seven wing who has already committed to attend Kansas and Craig Victor, a six-foot-seven power forward who has committed to attend Arizona.
Both Oubre and Vaughn will be vying for spots on the 2014 USA U18 and 2014 USA Nike Hoops Summit team.
Findlay Prep also has a history with Canadian basketball.
Current NBA players Corey Joseph (San Antonio Spurs) and Tristan Tristan Thompson (Cleveland Cavaliers), as well as last year's top pick in the draft 鈥� the first Canadian ever selected with the top pick 鈥� Anthony Bennett (Cleveland).
The Pilots have a duo of highly regarded Canadian players in six-foot-eight guard/forward Justin Jackson of Toronto and six-foot-six guard/forward Dillon Brooks of Mississauga. Jackson is in Grade 10 and Brooks in in Grade 11.
Williams calls Jackson 'the next big thing to come out of Canada."
Findlay Prep will play a pair of games against all-stars made up of top senior boys players from around the Lower Mainland.
They will play one of the all-star teams on Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. and the second all-star team on Sunday at 5 p.m.
The latter team will feature two members of the Walnut Grove Gators, the defending B.C. AAA senior boys provincial champions.
Point guard Jadon Cohee 鈥� who has signed his national letter of intent to attend Seattle University next year 鈥� and Tyler Anderson are the two Gators on the roster. The team will also be coached by Walnut Grove鈥檚 George Bergen.
The two all-star teams were selected with assistance from Basketball BC.
