From NBE Basketball Report

The 17-U Super Showcase is down to their final eight in the Gold Bracket after Sunday night’s action. The quarterfinals tip off on Monday morning with the St. Louis Eagles taking on Long Island Lightning and Team Takeover facing Team Next (NYC) at 9:25 AM with the winners meeting in the semifinals at 3 PM. The other half of the bracket features the Georgia Blazers and Showtime Ballers in one match-up at 10:50 AM with Each 1 Teach 1 and Westchester Hawks meeting in the other quarterfinal and the winners collide at 4:30 in the other semifinal at the Milkhouse

Earlier today the 16-U Super showcase winner was crowned as Baltimore Elite edged All-Ohio Red, 58-57, in the Gold Bracket championship game. In the Sliver Bracket it was the Martin Brothers taking the title game over Each 1 Teach 1.

Alex Schwartz again checks in from Orlando as we run down the impressive performances of Austin Rivers, Shane Larkin, Branden Dawson, E. Victor Nickerson and J-Mychal Reese and update the recruitment of Tony Parker, Elijah Macon, Dawson and Aaron Thomas, all of which is covered below in detail.

To read the rest of this article that I contributed for NBE Basketball Report, click Here. It is my player evaluations on Shane Larkin '11, Austin Rivers '11, Branden Dawson '11, E. Victor Nickerson '11, and J-Mychal Reese '12 as well as recruiting notes I got from Tony Parker '12, Elijah Macon '12, and Aaron Thomas '11.