Alex Lloyd And CJ Ingram Compete At Jordan Brand Classic

Renderings of the O'Dome for the Florida Gators basketball team/ photo courtesy of the UAAThe Jordan Brand Classic has become one of the top events in the country for high school players about to enter the college game and now that the Gators are getting back to bringing in top talent again this is once again an event worth getting eyes on to see future Florida talent. While the Jordan Brand Classic is one of the premier showcase events it hasn’t always got the absolute best of the best–but this year it was pretty close to doing that. The game featured names that you will already be extremely familiar with such as AJ Dybantsa, Cam Boozer, Cayden Boozer, Nate Ament, Kiyan Anthony, Acaden Lewis, Darryn Peterson, Daris Acuff, Chris Cenac…okay, at this point pretty much the entirety of both rosters could be named, because this event was back to getting the top high school players in the country and putting them on display. In addition to the names previously mentioned, future Gators CJ Ingram and Alex Lloyd were also in the game getting to put their talents up against other top players in the country. It goes without saying that this was, in fact, a showcase game, so it was never going to have the structure and intensity of a high school rivalry game between two powerhouses–but the level of competition was still quite high for a setting like this. For whatever it’s worth, both Ingram and Lloyd were some of the last players on the bench to get on the floor for their teams. Some will cry disrespect, or politics–but you saw the names on the list. This is just a high-level collection of talent, and these coaches aren’t the only ones who see Ingram and Lloyd as just a level below the guys that are already surefire NBA lottery picks.

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