Tonight on ESPN2: Campbell Hall of CA visits Saint Edward of Ohio

The first men's high school basketball game of the season airs tonight (Thursday, December 6, 2007) on ESPN2: Campbell Hall of CA visits Saint Edward of Ohio. The game will be televised live at 9pm eastern (6pm pacific). There is a college game before that (Providence vs South Carolina at 7pm eastern (4pm pacific), so if that game goes longer, it may "eat up" some of the air time of the high school game.

The biggest stars in the game is J'Rue Holiday who is following Kevin Love to UCLA, and Delvon Roe, who broke Ol' Roy's heart when he signing with Izzo State.
Here is a detailed college and high-school hoops tv schedule.

You can find a nice preview of the game at USA Today. There you can also find their Super Top 25 "ranking" of high school basketball teams.

The game is also previewed at Cleveland.com, the city hosting the game - at St. Edward's home gym.

Also a nice preview of the game at the 5in60 blog.

Meanwhile Jody Demling of the Louisville Courier Journal previews this game, but also has a schedule of upcoming college hoops games on the ESPN family of networks(six more events!) This year ESPN "stole" Spalding HoopHall Classic games from CSTV, except they are putting them on ESPNU which is like showing them on Mars because a number of cable companies and ESPN are unable to find a way to make ESPNU available to anyone who wants to subscribe to it. Here is a rant on Comcast and ESPNU.

Update! Here is our post-game report