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Pangos Camp: Top 55 Rankings

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Camp co-MOP Quinn Costello (left) and Elias Obenyah led their Duke squad to the Pangos Team Championship and were both top three performers. Photo: Scott Kurtz 

We evaluated all the sessions of the 2025 Pangos All-American Camp at Bishop Gorman (Las Vegas, Nev.) June 1-3 and broke down our notes and evaluations to rank the top 55 players in attendance.

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Pangos Jr. A-A Camp: 35 Standouts

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We evaluated all the sessions of the 2025 Pangos Junior All-American Camp in Long Beach, Calif., and broke down our notes and evaluations to select 35 standout players in attendance.

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HOOP SCOOP: 40-Year Retrospective & Next Chapter

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Photo: Ben Wilson (left) was tragically shot in Chicago near Simeon High School on November, 20, 1984 and was pulled off life support the next morning. He was considered the best player in the 1985 class. Derrick Rose, a member of the famed 2007 class, honored Wilson by wearing No. 25 at Simeon and he joins Wilson on the list of the HOOP SCOOP’s Ranking of the Top 100 High School Players Since 1984.

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Pangos All-East Frosh/Soph Top 50 Rankings

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We took in all the sessions of the 2024 Pangos All-East Frosh/Soph Camp at NBN Sports Academy (Wilmington, Del.) and broke down our notes and evaluations to rank the top fifty players in attendance.

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Pangos All-Midwest Frosh/Soph Top 50 Rankings

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The Nothing But Net Magazine staff took in all the sessions of the 2024 Pangos All-Midwest Frosh/Soph Camp at De La Salle (Chicago) this past weekend and broke down its notes and evaluations to rank the top fifty players in attendance. HOOP SCOOP publisher and Ballislife.com Editor Ronnie Flores was not in attendance.

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Pangos All-South Frosh/Soph Top 50 Rankings

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We took in all the sessions of the 2024 Pangos All-South Frosh/Soph Camp at the Duncanville Fieldhouse (Duncanville, Texas) this past weekend and broke down our notes and evaluations to rank the top fifty players in attendance. 

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Pangos Frosh/Soph: Top 50 Rankings

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The Nothing But Net Magazine staff took in all the sessions of the 2024 Pangos All-West Frosh/Soph Camp in Long Beach, Calif., over the weekend and broke down its notes and evaluations to rank the top fifty players in attendance. HOOP SCOOP publisher and Ballislife.com Editor Ronnie Flores was not in attendance.

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Southwest Camp Top 30 Rankings

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We evaluated the 2024 Southwest Basketball Camp at the Phhacility in Phoenix (Ariz.) August 19-20 and broke down our notes and evaluations to rank the top 30 players in attendance.

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Salute to Brick Oettinger

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by Van Coleman, special to the HOOP SCOOP

One of my best friends in basketball, as well as life, recently passed away. That friend was Brick Oettinger, one of America’s greatest high school talent evaluators and more importantly, one of the best human beings to ever grace the game of basketball, period.

Most fans of the game may remember Brick from his columns in the “The Poop Sheet, ACC Sports Journal, and Prep Stars Magazine”, enjoying his amazingly thorough and accurate player profiles, but not realizing that basketball wasn’t his primary vocation. It was a vocation for his love of the game. Brick’s main vocation over most of the thirty plus years that I knew him was as a “UNC Correctional Education Director in the Division of Continuing Education” which he developed and held from 1974 until his retirement in 2014.

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Final, Expanded 2023-24 FAB 50 Rankings!

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All 50 ranked teams written up with explanations for why they were placed in these positions with comparisons to preseason ranking. The FAB 50 National Team Rankings powered by Ballislife.com is the official rankings of the National Sports News Service, which date back to the 1952 season. Montverde Academy of Florida is the 2023-24 mythical national champion, as the program captured its seventh FAB 50 title since 2013, tying Oak Hill Academy of Virginia for most all-time No. 1 finishes.  

Compiled by Ronnie Flores

(Preseason ranking in parentheses; *Indicates forfeit wins, forfeit losses not included; **Indicates forfeits and defaults not included.)

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