Hooptown’s Tennessee Team Pride Basketball Club is crowned the top AAU program in the nation for the 2nd year in a row

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Hooptown’s Tennessee Team Pride Basketball Club is crowned the top AAU program in the nation for the 2nd year in a row.

Tennessee Team Pride accrued 71 points at the girls Division 1 AAU nationals in 2007 ages 9u-19u/SR to win the “Clinton Cup Points Championship”.

2007 Team Pride top 16 finishes include 9u 4th(15pts), 10u 5th (14 pts), 11u 3rd (16 pts), 15u 9th ( 9 pts) and 16u/JE 2nd (17 pts).

Rounding out the 2007 top 10 nationally were 2. Dayton Hoopstars – 68 pts, 3. Memphis Elite – 57 pts, 4. Arkansas Mavericks – 56 pts, 5. Indiana’s Finest – 52 pts, 6. Alabama Twisters – 40 pts, 7. Fairfax Stars – 32 pts, 8. Maryland Flames – 31 pts, 9. Mo Valley Eclipse – 29 pts , 9. Virginia Neptunes – 29 pts.

This season’s finish marks Team Pride’s 4th consecutive year to be in the top 10 nationally(2004 – 9th, 2005 10th and 2006 1st).

The point system is derived from the Olympic swimming point system. 1st – 20pts, 2nd -17 pts, 3rd -16 pts, 4th – 15 pts, 5th or 6th -14 pts, 7th or 8th -12 points, 9th thru 12th – 9pts and 13th thru 16th – 4 pts.