High school basketball: Breaking down the Riverside-Brookfield and Normal West Summer Shootouts

After highlighting 10 players who really helped raise their stock on Tuesday, there is still so much to get to from a busy weekend of high school basketball.

There is no other place to start this rewind of last weekend than with Glenbard West. Let the superlatives begin.

If there is any suburban team that’s going to supplant any of the Chicago Public League powers at No. 1 when the preseason rankings come out in November, it’s Glenbard West. Yes, the Hilltoppers are that good.

Glenbard West took apart Simeon. They beat a very talented and likely top 10 team in New Trier in what was arguably the highest level game with serious shot-making that was played all weekend long. They also knocked off highly-regarded St. Rita and drilled Westinghouse.

There is Division I talent, including a legitimate high-major player in Braden Huff who has difference-making talent and size. There is the Swiss Army knife in 6-5 Cade Pierce and the high-level shooting of 6-5 Bobby Durkin. There is the athletic and physical big in 6-7 Ryan Renfro. There is the hard-nosed veteran in Paxton Warden.

You can go on and on … There is endless size, experience and, most importantly, a familiarity and unselfish aspect that is clear to see when watching this team play together.

That starts with having two unselfish stars in Huff and Pierce. They set the tone with their demeanor, leadership and unselfishness.

Huff is a basketball unicorn at the high school level, a 6-10

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Best of Tucson® 2021: Legends of the West!


Spherical 1 Voting Is Here!

Yee-haw, Tucson! It’s time to solid your ballots in the 1st spherical of voting in Most effective of Tucson® 2021: Legends of the West!

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It’s your options that make Ideal of Tucson® the rootin’est, tootin’est challenge of the yr, but we really do not want you considering you simply cannot vote unless of course you have an impression in each and every class. We’re just asking that you vote in at the very least 15 categories this yr. (And actually, if you simply cannot deal with that, possibly it is time you get to know Tucson a little far better?)

You have possibly voted in Most effective of Tucson® ahead of, but just in situation, here’s how it performs: In our initially spherical of voting, y’all nominate anybody you want for all our types.

That said, we emphasize nearby corporations in Ideal of Tucson® so if you want your choice to make it to the second round, you may well want to avoid voting for national chains.

The moment this spherical of voting wraps up on July 12, Net Editor Mike Truelsen will tally the benefits and we’ll be back again with a closing showdown with 5 finalists in each individual category.

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