Summer basketball jamboree tips off at Coastal Christian High School

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — Five varsity basketball teams are participating in this week’s jamboree at Coastal Christian High School: Coastal Christian, East Columbus, North Brunswick, Topsail and Wallace-Rose Hill. Throw in a few jv teams and you’ve got a lot of players hooping it up on with summer hoops just four months prior to the start of the upcoming 2016-17 high school basketball season. “This is the 9th annual summer jamboree for us,” Coastal Christian head coach Craig Wheeler told WWAY on Monday night. “Really what we’re doing is it’s an opportunity for us to get 6 to 8 programs in the gym all with one goal of just getting better. We’re trying to get kids playing time and trying to create real game situations with high school referees and high school courts.”

Check out our game highlights from Monday night. The event will run through Wednesday at Coastal Christian.