American Youth Basketball Tour
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The American Youth Basketball Tour is a summer, High School and Middle school based, youth basketball organization. The tour hosts five on five basketball events throughout the Midwest and East Coast called District Series Events. These DSE’s guarantee each team five games in a round robin format that are held on weekends starting in May and finishing in mid-July.
The culmination of the summer events is one of four National Tournaments. The national tournaments guarantee eight games and are held over a four day period one of the last two weeks of July. All teams have the opportunity to attend a National Tournament to their desire. Most National Tournament sites fill quickly and are filled on first come, first served basis. National Tournaments are set-up to give teams seven round robin games with the eighth game starting a single elimination tournament.
[edit] Site of the Tournaments
- Bloomington, Illinois (Illinois Wesleyan University)
- The Shirk Center on the campus of Illinois Wesleyan University is a state of the art athletic complex. Also using two new high schools, Normal Community and Normal West High School for 17 courts.
- Ft. Wayne, IN (Spiece Fieldhouse)
- Amazing sports complex at Spiece Center and additional gyms in Ft. Wayne allow for 19 courts. (1st Session July 16th-20th, 2nd session is July 20th - 24th)
- Cedar Falls, IA (University of Northern Iowa)
- Best facilities are at this National with 20 courts.(1st Session July 23rd-27th, 2nd session is July 27th - 31st)
- Williamsport, PA (Local Gyms)
- Home of the Little League World Series. (1st Session July 20th-24th, 2nd session is July 27th - 31st)
