I.E. Invitational basketball tourney brackets released
The brackets for the Inland Empire Invitational boys basketball tournament Dec. 13-18 have been released and the event hosted by Upland, Colony, Rancho Cucamonga and Miller High Schools will feature a 16-team field including four defending league champions, seven teams that reached the quarterfinals and three that reached the semifinals of last season's CIF-SS playoffs.
Etiwanda, which lost a three-point game to Santa Ana Mater Dei in the CIF-SS Division 1AA finals last season returns most of its team to the I.E. Invitational. In a pool with the defending Baseline League champs will be Miller, Perris and Vista Murrieta.
Chino Hills and Colony, defending league champions that reached the quarterfinals and semifinals, respectively, in Division 1A last season are in Pool D with Lake Elsinore Lakeside and a Los Osos team that graduated point guard Kendall Williams to New Mexico and center Khalil Kelley to University of the Pacific.
Summit, which was the No. 1 seed in Division 2AA last season, headlines a pool with Rancho Cucamonga, Garey and Claremont. The final pool is made up of an Upland team that finished second in the Baseline League last season along with Redlands East Valley, Pomona and Arcadia.
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Clay Fowler has been covering high school sports for six years in California and Texas. He was born in Dallas, attended the University of Texas and worked in Central Texas before joining the Daily Bulletin staff in 2006.
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