NEW ORLEANS (May 30, 2023) – The Allstate Sugar Bowl sponsored the Super 60 AAU Basketball Tournament for the 10th year over Memorial Day weekend in New Orleans. The event featured 95 boys' teams, including many of the top-rated AAU teams in the country, from third-grade to 10th-grade. Teams played multiple games at 24 locations around the city. The tournament featured young athletes from 10 different states as well as Puerto Rico and drew thousands of visitors to the city.
 
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The states represented in this year's Super 60 tournament were Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas.
 
Boys Division Winners (95 total teams)
Third Grade Gold Bracket (7 teams): Louisiana Blazers Elite def. Jacksonville Magic (Fla.)
Fourth Grade Gold Bracket (9 teams): Next Gen (Texas) def. Southern Premier Nightrydas (La.)
Fifth Grade Gold Bracket (10 teams): JL3 Perk (Texas) def. Fleur de Lis Select (La.)
Fifth Grade Purple Bracket (3 teams): Louisiana Nuggets def. MCW (Ala.)
Sixth Grade Gold Bracket (10 teams): Jax Magic (Fla.) def. Louisiana Broncos
Seventh Grade Gold Bracket (10 teams): Georgia Kings def. EP Elite (La.)
Seventh Grade Purple Bracket (5 teams): Louisiana Dream Team def. Fleur de Lis Select (La.)
Eighth Grade Gold Bracket (14 teams): BP Elite (Texas) def. Born 2 Ball (La.)
Eighth Grade Purple Bracket (7 teams): Fleur de Lis (Louisiana) def. Hardwork Ellis (Texas)
Ninth Grade Gold Bracket (10 teams): One Dream Leite (Miss.) def. JSI Elite (Ala.)
Tenth Grade Gold Bracket (10 teams): Magnolia Heat (Miss.) def. Sports Academy (La.)
 
Full results are available by visiting: https://super60basketball.com/home
 
The Super 60 tourney has welcomed a handful of celebrity coaches including former NBA standout Kendrick Perkins, who coached his JL3 Perk squad to the fifth-grade championship this year. Former NBA star and current University of Memphis basketball coach Penny Hardaway and former NBA player and playground legend Rafer "Skip To My Lou" Alston have coached teams, as did former UNO star Ervin Johnson (a 2018 inductee into the Greater New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame) and former New Orleans Pelican Darius Miller. Phoenix Sun Elfrid Payton and former NBA stars Juwan Howard and Zach Randolph have attended as fans.
 

 
The event has also featured many star players in its history, including current NBA players Marvin Bagley (Detroit Pistons), Jared Butler (Oklahoma City Thunder), Wendell Carter (Chicago Bulls), Melvin Frazier (Orlando Magic), Collin Sexton (Utah Jazz), Jalen Suggs (Orlando), Jared Vanderbilt (Los Angeles Lakers), Robert Williams (Boston Celtics) and Trae Young (Atlanta Hawks). Butler and Suggs were both stars in the 2021 NCAA Final Four while Villanova standout Caleb Daniels, a New Orleans native, also played in the Super 60 tournament before helping the Wildcats to the 2022 Final Four.
 
The Allstate Sugar Bowl has established itself as one of the premier college football bowl games, having hosted 28 national champions, 102 Hall of Fame players, 52 Hall of Fame coaches and 21 Heisman Trophy winners in its 89-year history. The 90th Allstate Sugar Bowl Football Classic, which will double as a College Football Playoff Semifinal, is scheduled to be played on January 1, 2024. In addition to football, the Sugar Bowl Committee annually invests over $1 million into the community through the hosting and sponsorship of sporting events, awards, scholarships and clinics. Through these efforts, the organization supports and honors thousands of student-athletes each year, while injecting nearly $2.4 billion into the local economy in the last decade.