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HOOP SCOOP’S FINAL TOP 100 PLAYER RANKINGS FOR 2025

Ronnie Flores – May 11, 2025
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Pangos Jr. A-A Camp: 35 Standouts

Ronnie Flores – February 23, 2025
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All-Time HOOP SCOOP All-American Position Breakdown

Ronnie Flores – November 22, 2024
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HOOP SCOOP: 40-Year Retrospective & Next Chapter

Ronnie Flores – November 20, 2024

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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Pangos Camp: Top 60 Rankings

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We evaluated all the sessions of the 2024 Pangos All-American Camp at Bishop Gorman (Las Vegas, Nev.) June 2-4 and broke down our notes and evaluations to rank the top 60 players in attendance.

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The NEW HOOP SCOOP Is Here!

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Plenty has changed for the longest-running high school and grassroots basketball website on the Internet in the past four years, just as it has for many companies and people. The onset of the COVID-19 virus in early 2020 brought change to the HOOP SCOOP. Longtime editor and publisher Clark Francis decided the down time COVID-19 created was a good time to step away from the day-to-day responsibilities of managing hoopscooponline.com. Francis decided to step away from his editorial and publishing duties and hand the reigns over to long-time correspondent Ronnie Flores.

Flores, the long-time California editor of the HOOP SCOOP and West Coast correspondent, took reigns of the website and continued The HOOP SCOOP’s business initiatives. Flores continued to publish content on the website thereafter, including the annual Top 100 National Player Rankings and unique event player rankings from high school and grassroots events all over the country.

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2023-24 Underclass All-American Elite Team

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Class players of the year Cameron Boozer (Juniors), Jalen Montonati (Sophomores) and Jaylan Mitchell (Freshmen) headline the 2023-24 Underclass All-American Elite Team.

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2023-24 High School All-American Elite Team

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Mr. Basketball USA Cooper Flagg, national junior player of the year Cameron Boozer and three of Flagg’s teammates highlight 30th annual All-American Elite Team produced by Ballislife.com Grassroots Editor Ronnie Flores. Elite honor squad includes 20-man first team and 30-man second team.

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