Team Breakdown One Win From AAU Basketball History
August 1st, 2007 Posted in AAU BasketballTeam Breakdown is just one win away from claiming the AAU 17U Junior Boys Basketball national championship. The Breakdown defeated the highly-regarded Georgia Stars, 63-57, Tuesday evening at The Milkhouse in Lake Buena Vista, Fl.
Team Breakdown will face King of the Court at 8:30 on Wednesday with a shot to keep the championship trophy in Florida for the first time. No Florida AAU team has ever won the 17U national championship.
King of the Court earned its shot at the national title with a 63-58 victory against the Westchester Hawks Select.
Westchester faces the Georgia Stars at 1 p.m. in the third-place game.
The Breakdown have enjoyed quite a run in the tournament. The South Florida team won all three of their pool play games to earn a berth in the bracketed championship tournament and then won five games over three days to reach the championship game.
Oddly, though, the Breakdown nearly lost their first game of the tournament. The Breakdown eked out a 73-72 victory against Virgina’s Richmond Squires in Pool D. The team, though, found its groove with a 91-65 win and a 60-52 triumph in its next two games.
The Breakdown had few challenges in the early portion of the bracket. The team pounded Del Val USA 100-60 and followed it with a 96-71 victory against Shining Star-Callahan. The Breakdown then pounded the Philadelphia Patriots 85-41 on Monday evening to reach the quarterfinals.
In the quarters, the Breakdown defeated the Georgia Blazers Tuesday morning and followed it with a victory against the Georgia Stars.
King of the Court survived a 58-56 scare against Inner Strength-Black on Monday evening to earn a berth in the quarterfinals. King of the Court then defeated a second Florida squad, the Ambassadors, to face New York’s Westchester Hawks Select.
A full preview of the championship game will be available Wednesday morning.
