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I played AAU ball in 1986, 1987 and 1988 and it was big

Posted on: August 30, 2023 at 19:32:25 CT
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for anyone who was really into basketball.

Junior year I didn't even play for my high school team. My coach loved 2 other seniors for my position and it wasn't worth my time coming off the bench for subpar competition.

AAU we played low 40s to over 50 games depending on how many tournaments your coach wanted to participate in and how far the team wanted to drive.

The rule was that if you played high school ball you couldn't play AAU until the season was over. So the years I played for my high school we would play 15-ish games while the AAU teams had played almost 30. After the AAU season the teams would add those good high school players and still play another 15-20+ games including early summer tournaments.
There were probably 12-15 AAU teams in STL around that time period plus some in Alton, Belleville etc.
We were middle of the pack and got beat by Peeler's team in a tourney by 40+ as they broke 100 points with ease.

There may have been guys that formed a few extra teams after the high school season was over or possibly they just joined together for tournaments. I say this because some tournaments you would see teams that you hadn't heard of before, though some were from out of town. I didn't pay real close attention to that part but there were plenty of teams and I don't remember playing any one team more than twice or an exception in a tournament maybe a 3rd time.

The other interesting and fun thing about those games were the scores were in the 60s, 70s and 80s regularly while high school games would end in the 30s 40s and rarely in the 50s. It was up and down

Edited by TigerFan92 at 19:50:33 on 08/30/23
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