It’s that time of year again—high school basketball season is just around the corner, and players are transitioning from summer grassroots/AAU hoops to the scholastic stage.

Join us on October 5th and 6th for the highly anticipated 2024 Black Cager Fall Classic, an event featuring many of the top high school basketball programs on the East Coast. Over the years, the Fall Classic has become one of the nation’s premier pre-season scholastic basketball tournaments.

This year’s competition will take place at the state-of-the-art Executive Education Fieldhouse, located at 555 Union Boulevard in Allentown, PA. With over 60 teams from four states set to compete, this year’s Classic promises to deliver top-tier talent and intense matchups.

Several powerhouse teams will be featured, including Roman Catholic (PA), Westtown (PA), Camden (NJ), Roselle Catholic (NJ), Penn Charter (PA), Neumann-Goretti (PA), and Academy of the New Church (PA)—all programs that consistently rank among the top 50 teams in the nation. The prestigious Philadelphia Catholic League will also be well-represented with teams like Archbishop Ryan, Devon Prep, Father Judge, West Catholic, Conwell-Egan, and Lansdale Catholic, in addition to the already-mentioned Roman Catholic and Neumann-Goretti.

Suburban Philadelphia basketball powerhouses like Plymouth-Whitemarsh, Coatesville, Downingtown West, Abington, Chester Charter, and Cheltenham are also set to compete, while elite independent school programs such as Friends Select, Abington Friends, and Springside Chestnut Hill will add to the competitive field.

Representing the Philadelphia Public League are teams like Audenried, Lincoln, Carver E&S, Constitution, and Overbrook. Additionally, Berks and Lehigh Counties will send their top teams, including Executive Education (the host school), Allentown Central Catholic, Liberty, William Allen, Pocono Mountain East, La Academia, Notre Dame, East Stroudsburg, and Muhlenberg.

New Jersey will be well represented, too, with top programs like Camden, Roselle Catholic, Camden Eastside, St. Joseph’s Academy, St. Peter’s, Immaculate Conception, Elizabeth, Gill St. Bernard, Linden, Timber Creek, and Salem ready to battle it out. St. Mark’s, St. Elizabeth’s and Brandywine will hold it down for the first state, Delaware.

Black Cager Sports Founder, Delgreco Wilson, highlights the highly competitive nature of the event: “We strive to give these programs an opportunity to see how they stack up against the best. Fans come to see elite players and teams, and I think that’s what the Black Cager Fall Classic is all about,” Wilson said. “Watching college basketball teams like Kentucky, Villanova, Temple, Florida State, UCONN, and Maryland, and knowing that many of our players will be competing at that level next year, is really special. Jalen Duren (Detroit Pistons), Seth Lundy (Atlanta Hawks), Donta Scott (Golden State Warriors), Collin Gillespie (Phoenix Suns), and Carlton Carrington (Washington Wizards) are just a few of our alumni now playing in the NBA. So, we’ve brought in elite players and teams for years … I think we offer something truly unique. The idea of having future high-major college and NBA players running up and down Executive Education’s courts—it’s really exciting stuff.”