ESPNHS Invitational

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Originally Posted by JRutledge

I believe all these schools participating in this tournament are Prep schools. This basically means they do not play under the state rules that normal schools play in and would not allow these teams to play in this tournament otherwise. At least that is the case from my state and these types of schools are often not present in my state, but there were a couple of attempt. And at least some of the East Coast model the players are sometimes older or have finished their HS career and join these teams in order to make themselves noticed by college teams. This is the reason they often call these schools "Basketball factories." It is questionable if there are even consistent academic standards used to even educate those kids outside of basketball.

Peace

I was just going to post something similar. Most states that I'm aware of (in the midwest anyway) don't allow teams to compete in "national" tournaments such as this. It's a shame that ESPN promotes this as a High School tournament as the only thing "High School" about this tournament is that the players may (or may not) be of High School age.