American Youth Basketball Tour rate your team as “Highly Skilled (HS)”, “Good (G)”, or “Average (A)”. If you are an all-star team, hold tryouts to select top players, or recruit players because of their skill level, you must play as a Highly Skilled team. Since there are no trophies or awards at the District Series Events, many teams will choose to play up or down a division, depending on skill level. American Youth Basketball Tour The American Youth Basketball Tour, AYBT, is a summer, high school and middle school based, youth basketball organization. The tour hosts 5 on 5 basketball events throughout the Midwest
Ron Jacobs (basketball) was to improve the quality of basketball in the Philippines. After watching some Philippine Basketball Association games, he came up with the idea of naturalizing American collegiate players as Filipinos, to pass basketball technology to Filipino cagers. Jacobs formed his first team in 1981; it had eight American players (Steve Schall, Steve Lingerfelter, Bruce Webster, Willie Polk, Eddie Joe Chavez, Jeff Moore, Dennis Still and Michael Antoine), two Filipino-Americans (Willie Pearson and Ricky Brown) and two local players (both from San Beda - JB Yango and Frankie Lim). The starting unit for that team included the 7'0 Steve Schall, the