The Jewish Hoops America season gets into full swing tomorrow in Los Angeles with the start of the 8th annual Steve Glouberman Z’L Basketball Tourmament at Shalhevet.
The girls tournament features the defending champs, the host Firehawks, along with last year’s runner up Berman Hebrew Academy, Frisch, HA Miami, Maimonides, Ramaz, SAR and YULA. The 10-team boys field includes those schools plus defending champ TABC and Valley Torah.
Nine girls and six boys named All Jewish Hoops Americans last year are playing in the tournament, including JHA Players of the Year Yalee Schwartz of Shalhevet and Johny Dan of Valley Torah.
Preliminary games to determine seeding, two for each team, will be on Wednesday and Thursday. The boys 7-10 play-in games, boys and girls quarterfinals and the girls semifinals are on Friday. The girls championship game and boys semifinals and championship are on Saturday night.
The tourney tips off at 2:30 pm PT with Shahevet taking on TABC in a rematch of last year’s boys championship game. The first girls game features Shalhevet and Ramaz at 4:30.
For the full schedule and to follow the action live, go to https://www.shalhevet.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=490206&type=d&pREC_ID=1463555
And check back here each day for recaps of all the games.