It should be a pretty good collection of talent on hand for the Mid-America Summer Hoops Classic at Murray State University's Regional Special Events Center, which begins Tuesday and continues through Thursday.
Paducah Tilghman, Graves County and Christian County were among the top teams at Murray State's team camp earlier this month. Christian should be a top-10 team in Kentucky next season and has several players drawing Division I interest — guard Shaquille Wilson seems ticketed for Missouri State and a pair of juniors, guard Anthony Hickey and wing Donovan Kates, are getting plenty of attention.
Murray has interest in Hickey and another junior point guard, Tilghman's Josh Forrest.
Belleville Althoff and East St. Louis figure to be one of southern Illinois' best teams, Carbondale always fields a solid club and Massac County returns three starters from last season's Class 2A state runner-up squad.
Union City again will be one of the top teams in northwest Tennessee, as will Henry County, which was 22-7 last year.
Helias, the Catholic school in Jefferson City, Mo., finished in third place in the Class 4 state tournament. Charleston is a perennial power in southeast Missouri and reached the Class 3 quarterfinals, giving the eventual state champion their toughest game of the postseason.
The girls' side features all of the First Region contenders, except for Calloway County. Christian County and Webster County are Second Region powers and Obion Central has long been one of the best programs in northwest Tennessee.
And then there is Quincy (Ill.), which is a homecoming of sorts for head coach Sandi Devoe, a Heath alum. Known then as Sandi Griffes, she was a Paducah Sun All-Purchase selection in 1986 and 1987 and played at Paducah Community College. While there, she started dating Fred Devoe, who played for PCC's men's team, and the two went on to Quincy University together before eventually getting married.
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