The Toughest Schedule in the Country?
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Tyreke Evans
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When American Christian School (Aston, Penn.) was putting together their hoop schedule over the summer, they weren’t messing around. Led by Tyreke Evans, ACA flaunts a roster bursting with talent (maybe 10 guys going to D-1 programs). If you got it, flaunt it, right?
This season will see ACS travel up and down the East Coast to play other top teams and will make not one, but two, road trips to California to take on serious competition. By our count, they will encounter squads featuring at least six Top 25 players and twice as many Top 50 guys along the way.
Below is ACS’s schedule, complete with the blue chip players they’ll have to tangle with over the next few months…
AMERICAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL’S SCHEDULE (’07-08)
11/10 @ Boys Club of New York
11/13 @ Massanutten Military (Woodstock, Va.)
11/17-18 New England Prep Invitational
11/20 Laurinburg Prep, N.C.
11/23 Edison Job Corp Academy (Edison, N.J.)
11/27 Milestone Christian Academy (Kansas City, Mo.)
12/1 Stoneridge Prep (Simi Valley, Calif.)
12/3 Compton High (Calif.) – DeMar DeRozan (USC)
12/6 St. Louis Shootout (St. Louis, Mo.)
12/7 IMG Academy (Bradenton, Fla.) @ Louisville, K.Y. – Kenny Kadji (Florida)
12/9 Patterson Prep (Lenoir, N.C.) @ Wash, D.C.
12/15 Patterson HS @ Wheeling, W.V.
12/22 @ Withrow High School (Withrow, Ohio)
12/28-30 Jameer Nelson classic @ Widener University (Penn.)
1/5 American Heritage @ Va. Beach – Top 20, 08 player Eloy Vargas (Florida), Top 10, 09 player Kenny Boynton
1/8 National Christian (Prince Georges County, Md.)
1/10 Adelphi Academy (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
1/12 @ Campbell Hall (Calif.) – Jrue Holiday (USC)
1/15 Boys Club of NY
1/17 Apex Academy – Marcus and Markieff Morris (former Memphis commits)
1/19 @ Dunwoody HS (Atlanta) – Chris Singleton (Top 50 recruit)
1/21 St.Thomas More @ Baruch College (N.Y.) – Devin Ebanks (Indiana)
1/26 TBD
1/27 Notre Dame Prep @ University of Pittsburgh – James Southerland (Syracuse), Melquan Bolding (Louisville)
2/1 St.Benedict’s @ Villanova – Samardo Samuels, Tamir Jackson, Zach Rosen
2/2 Academy of New Church @ Villanova
2/9 Rancocas Valley@ Primetime Shootout (N.J.)
2/10 Patterson Catholic @ Primetime Shootout (N.J.) – Jordan Theodore, Fuqwan Edwin
2/16 Life Center
2/17 Findlay Prep @ Louisville, KY – DeAndre Liggins (Kentucky)
2/21 St.Anthony’s @ Seton Hall on ESPN
2/23 @ Union HS (Union, N.J.)
2/27 Massanutten Military
If Reke’ comes out of this season alive there shouldn’t be any doubt that he is the best h.s. player in the country. I haven’t seen Lance’s schedule yet but it can’t be as serious as A.C.S’.
I bet Momo Jones wishes he kept his @$$ at Rice!! Lol
Tough schedule for sure. I know they were trying to get St.Pat’s and Oak Hill on the schedule too. NY Baller, Momo is quite happy at ACS. I’ve seen a couple practices and spoken to Momo personally. He likes it there with Reke, Spivey and the rest of the guys.
i wonder how many games are gonna be on espn
The tournament in St. Louis is the KMOX Shootout, and they will face one of the top 10 programs in the country in South Kent Academy… Guys like Isaiah Thomas, Christian “Beast” Morris, Jin Soo Kim, Assane Sene, Maurice Creek, Dion Waiters, Papa Falletc… This is likely to be ACS’s toughest opponent…
Yeah I think ACS is gonna get crushed in that game. Jin Soo Kim, Isaiah Thomas, Christian Morris and Mo Creek are tough to matchup with.
I keep hearing about Jin Soo Kim. Is the nasty? I know about Thomas, Morris, and Creek already. That definitely is their toughest matchup.
that’s a tough schedule and all but i heard that Lamont Jones (former rice guard) is at A.C.S. now how is he going to get enough playing time with joshua spivey starting at the lead guard.
Is Jin Soo Kim from China? NOBODY from there is good at ball — Yao’s not even that good, he’s just big. Their Olympic team was getting mopped in the NBA summer league, and that’s supposed to be their best guys. Tyreke and them ain’t worried about Jin Soo Kim. Now Isiah Thomas? He’s good.
I watchedTyreke and Isaiah got at it last year at the Nike Super Six, courtside of course. Both named their teams MVP of the game. Classic scorers battle. Will be fun watching them match up in St Louis this year at the KMOX, as I’m sure they will go at eachother.
They were also fighting for the scoring title at the Nike Global Challenge as well.
Should be even moreso entertaining this year, as both of them have much more talent behind them.