The 2024 McDonald's All-American Boys Game was an all-star basketball game played on April 2, 2024, at Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. The game's rosters featured the best and most highly recruited high school boys graduating in the class of 2024. The game was the 47th annual version of the McDonald's All-American Game first played in 1977.[1] The 24 players were selected from over 700 nominees by a committee of basketball experts. They were chosen not only for their on-court skills, but for their performances off the court as well.
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| Date | April 2, 2024 | ||||||||||||
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| Venue | Toyota Center, Houston, Texas | ||||||||||||
| MVP | Dylan Harper & Derik Queen | ||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||
| McDonald's All-American | |||||||||||||
Rosters
editThe roster was announced on January 23, 2024. Alabama, Duke, Arkansas, North Carolina and Rutgers each had the most selections with two. At the announcement of the roster selections 16 schools were represented, while Karter Knox, Bryson Tucker and Derik Queen were uncommitted. Trent Perry was committed to USC at the time of the selection of the team but decommitted before the game was played when the school parted ways with their coach. East forward Liam McNeeley also decommitted from Indiana before the game started, but was committed to Indiana when the roster was announced. He later committed to UConn. [2] After the game was played Boogie Fland and Karter Knox announced their decommittment from Kentucky and announced they would follow head coach John Calipari to Arkansas. Jayden Quaintance decommitted from Kentucky as well and announced on April 29 that he would instead sign with Arizona State.
Team East
editNote: *
Team West
edit| ESPN 100 Rank |
Name | Height (ft–in) |
Weight (lb) |
Position | Hometown | High school | College choice |
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| 2 | Ace Bailey | 6–8 | 210 | F | Powder Springs, GA | McEachern High School | Rutgers |
| 9 | Flory Bidunga | 6–10 | 210 | C | Kinshasa, DRC | Kokomo High School | Kansas |
| 20 | Carter Bryant | 6–8 | 220 | F | Fountain Valley, CA | Centennial High School | Arizona |
| 29 | Zoom Diallo | 6–3 | 180 | G | Tacoma, WA | Prolific Prep of Napa Christian | Washington |
| 4 | V. J. Edgecombe | 6–4 | 185 | G | Bimini, The Bahamas | Long Island Lutheran High School | Baylor |
| 19 | Donnie Freeman | 6–7 | 190 | F | Washington, D.C. | IMG Academy | Syracuse |
| 3 | Dylan Harper | 6–5 | 180 | G | Ramsey, NJ | Don Bosco Preparatory High School | Rutgers |
| 5 | Tre Johnson | 6–6 | 185 | G | Dallas, TX | Link Academy | Texas |
| 24 | Karter Knox^ | 6–6 | 180 | G | Tampa, FL | Overtime Elite Academy | Arkansas‡ |
| 26 | Trent Perry† | 6–4 | 180 | G | North Hollywood, CA | Harvard-Westlake School | UCLA† |
| 8 | Derrion Reid | 6–7 | 200 | F | Grovetown, GA | Prolific Prep of Napa Christian | Alabama |
| 21 | Aiden Sherrell | 6–11 | 220 | C | Detroit, MI | Prolific Prep of Napa Christian | Alabama |
- ^undecided at the time of roster selection
- ~undecided at game time
- †decommitted from original school before game was played
- ‡decommitted from school after game was played
Reference[3]
Box Score
editApril 2, 2024
09:30 pm ET |
| East | 88–86 | West |
| Scoring by half: 37−44, 51−42 | ||
| Pts: Derik Queen, 23 Rebs: Derik Queen, 8 Asts: Derik Queen, 5 |
Pts: Dylan Harper, 22 Rebs: 2 Tied, 6 Asts: Dylan Harper, 5 | |
References
edit- ^ "Let's Run it Back! The McDonald's All American Games Will Return to Houston this April" (PDF). September 15, 2022. Retrieved January 25, 2022.
- ^ Givony, Jonathan (April 2, 2024). "Trent Perry decommits from USC after Andy Enfield's exit for SMU". ESPN.
- ^ "McDonald's 46th All American Game".