say no league playoffs 2003

	What:	27th Annual Nike "Say No Classic" Basketball League America's Premier College Summer
	When:	Friday, Aug. 1 Semifinals @ 6:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 2 Championship Game @ 5:00 p.m.
	Who:	Top College-Level Prospects & Players Only
	Where:	Friday Semifinals: West Los Angeles College 9000 Overland Ave. West Los Angeles, CA Saturday Championship LA Southwest College 1600 Imperial Highway Los Angeles, CA

In the last 27 years, the old "Southern California College Open" has developed and grown into what is now one of the nation's premier collegiate summer leagues, the "Say No Classic." This league has had some of the best basketball players in pass through since it started, including many NBA players, and this year's group of players, all of whom are either originally from Southern California or who are now playing for colleges and unversities located here, includes some of the top players from the Pac-10, the Big West, WCC, Mountain West, Big Sky, as well as a few from conferences as distant as the Ivy League, Mid-American, Horizon, America East, Big East, as well as some of the best NAIA players in the country.

The league has already played a full summer schedule at West Los Angeles College during June and July, and is now down to the final two days of competition this weekend. The Semifinals will be played this Friday night, at 6:30 p.m. featuring a contest between Hank's Top Prospects featuring Marquis Poole from Washington State, Desmon Farmer and Roderick Stewart from USC (although the latter was missing last weekend), Louis Darby from Long Beach State, and Tony Key and Nashid Beard from LACC. They will match up against Harry Wilson's CABC team featuring Brandon Rohe from Santa Clara, RJ Socci who sat out last year at Cal Poly SLO, Tashaan Forehan-Kelly from Cal, Mike Reich from Colorado College. Here are the full team rosters for each squad:

Hank's Top Prospects (American #4, Record: 7-3)			CABC (American #6, Record: 5-5)
#	Player	School	#	Player	School
1	Michael Strawberry	undecided	1	Tashaan Forehan-Kelly	Cal Berkeley
2	Jason McKinney	undecided	2	Jarrett Skrivfars	Montana State-Billings
3	Marquis Poole	Idaho State	3	Matthew Fournier	undecided
4	Desmon Farmer	USC	4	Gabriel Hughes	Cal Berkeley
5	Wayne Arnold	Georgia	5	RJ Socci	Cal Poly SLO
6	Kevin Lewis	undecided	6	Jeff Schafer	undecided
7	Nashid Beard	LACC	7	Adam Tancredi	Quinnipiac
9	Louis Darby	Long Beach State	8	Mike Riech	Colorado College
10	Tony Key	LACC	9	Danny Lambert	Irvine Valley College
13	Rodrick Stewart	USC	10	Brandon Rohe	Santa Clara U
13	Marcel Jackson	Long Beach State	13	Ryan Moore	UC-Davis
14	Markee White	San Diego State	14	Evan Moore	Stanford

The second game of the evening will feature Hank's Big Time (coached by Michael Wolf) against California Team Select (coached by Thaddeus McGrew). Hank's Big Time has had a core nucleus lately of David Gale who will play at Loyola-Chicago, UCLA teammates Brian Morrison and Mike Fey, Stanford's Fred Washington who joins the Cardinal this fall, the high-flying Corey Belser from USD, and big man Brice Prather of Azusa Pacific. Hank's Big Time has also recently seen the addition of high-scoring Terrance Johnson from Pepperdine who replaced a few guys formerly on the roster who had other commitments (e.g., Kirk Snyder who was playing for Puerto Rico), and the team also saw the return last weekend of 6'-8" Tyler Newton, who was injured early in the summer with a bad ankle sprain, but who kept his team's hopes alive with a crucial putback as time expired in last weekend's quarterfinals, giving Hank's Big Time a 71-69 win on Sunday over West Coast Sports, the No. 1 team in the league this year. Big Time, a team which almost didn't qualify for the playoffs--they had to await the outcome of last Friday night's games-- but which won two games last weekend to advance, will face a CTS team that has the always dangerous Brandon Heath who will be eligible at San Diego State this season and who can shoot from just about anywhere, as well as his former Westchester teammate and incoming UCLA frosh Trevor Ariza and Bruin veteran Dijon Thompson. The team also features Dijon's former Redondo Union teammate Andrew Zahn, who was at Arizona for two seasons but who transferred to Biola last year, and also features Zahn's former Arizona Wildcat teammate, current Arizona big man Isaiah Fox (from Crossroads), as well as the versatile Derek Andrew. Here are the rosters for the second semifinal this Friday night at 8:00 p.m. at West Los Angeles College.

Hank's Big Time (National #6, Record: 5-5)			California Team Select (American #2, Record: 7-2)
#	Player	School	#	Player	School
1	Nassai Daniels	St. Olaf's	1	Brandon Heath	San Diego State
2	Brian Morrison	UCLA	2	Dijon Thompson	UCLA
3	David Gale	Loyola-Chicago	3	Brett Cox	Weber State
4	Richard Cobbs	Riverside CC	4	Trevor Ariza	UCLA
5	Joel Jones	Sacramento State	5	Derek Andrew
6	Fred Washington	Stanford	6	Wes Wardrop	Loyola-Marymount
7	Tyler Newton	Univ. of the Pacific	7	Andrew Zahn	Biola University
8	Terrance Johnson	Pepperdine	9	Jamaal O'Quinn	Boise State (formerly)
9	Corey Belser	Univ. of San Diego	10	Marcus Moore	Washington State
10	Brice Prather	Azusa Pacific	13	Joe Buck
12	Mike Fey	UCLA	13	Isaiah Fox	Arizona

West LA College is very easy to get to from just about anywhere. It's located just east of the 405 Fwy exit at Jefferson (head east), or if you prefer surface streets and are coming from the east and want to avoid the 405 traffic, just get off the 10 Fwy at Overland, and head south. You can click this link for a map and directions if you're really lost.

Again, the league Championship game will be held on Saturday at Los Angeles Southwest College (not at West LA College) at 5:00 p.m., and will be part of the larger Nike "Championship Saturday" which will not only feature the Say No men's league championship game, but also the "Swoosh League" championship, the women's Say No championship, and the Pro League "Real Run" championship as well. Don't miss it, because with the end of the NCAA certified viewing period on July 31, and the CIF "dead period" the Say No League will, quite literally, be the only game in town on Saturday. Championship Saturday runs from