NCAA to Weigh Expanding Basketball Tourney--MIcentralSports.com"
BOYS BASKETBALL: Drew eyes bigger camp in 2007--The Post-Tribune
June 26, 2006
By Neal Boyer / Post-Tribune correspondent
Valparaiso University men’s basketball coach Homer Drew likes to think big.
As in hopefully doubling the size of the inaugural high school boys Team Camp for next summer.
A total of 29 teams, 12 local, competed over the weekend in four divisions on five courts in the Athletic Recreation Center.
“It went extremely well for our first year,” Drew said Sunday while watching Valparaiso High School finish second in the large and small school varsity divisions. Valpo’s JV was undefeated Friday and Saturday in pool play then moved up Sunday, going 2-1 vs. varsity teams.
“We’d like to double to 60 teams next year,” Drew said, adding extra courts might be used at Valpo High and the new Courts of NWI facility opening this fall north of Valparaiso.
All participants received a VALPO/Nike Camp T-shirt with seven games guaranteed.
Camp director Jack Gabor, though tired, also was all smiles Sunday.
“We got nothing but positive responses from coaches. My goal is to make all the coaches happy,” said Gabor who coached boys basketball at Bishop Noll, Kankakee Valley and Griffith after seven years at Huntington North.
Noll and KV were among local schools competing, joined by Lowell, Hobart, Hebron, Washington Township, South Central, Hammond Clark, Portage, Calumet and Knox.
“This is a great tournament; I’m sure it will grow,” said Valpo coach Jim Biggs. “They accommodated scheduling problems.”
Valpo’s JV, coached by Dave Karp, won the “Brown” division two-minute game-ending situation tourney Saturday night. Arlington, which nipped Valpo in the big school varsity final, also won the game-ending tourney.
“Arlington had a good weekend,” noted Gabor, a longtime friend of the Indy school’s coach and AD. A clinic for officials may be added next summer, said Gabor.
“We can’t wait to do it again,” Drew said.
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Q&A will Valparaiso University director of athletics Mark LaBarbera--The NWI Times
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