City Rocks on ESPNU

The Albany City Rocks 17u Black Team will be showcased by ESPNU on Monday, July 27th at 5:30 p.m.

The City Rocks finished third overall at the Peach Jam event in South Carolina earlier this month, a tournament open to some of the top AAU teams in the nation. Basically, it's an all-star extravaganza for the best high school basketball players in the country.

While the City Rocks are based in Albany, some of their best players come from out of the area.

Will Regan (pictured above, from Williamsville, New York), who has made a verbal commitment to the University of Virginia, joins

Tobias Harris (above, Half Hollow Hills, Long Island) as the City Rocks' two most visible prospects. Harris has been labeled as one of the biggest high school standouts in the New York Metro area by downstate media outlets and is being chased by some of the biggest Division I programs in the country.

Local basketball fans may be familiar with two of the members of the City Rocks backcourt, which includes Jamel Fields (above), who will enter Fairfield University in the fall of 2010 and

Taran Buie, who led Bishop Maginn High School to a state championship in 2007-08. Buie, a rising senior in high school, has decided to join brother Talor Battle at Penn State in the fall of 2010.

Nolan Hart (Albany Academy), Derrick Millinghaus (Schenectady), Mike Murray (La Salle Institute) and Kameron Ritter (Christian Brothers Academy) are among the other local players on the team. Ritter in particular is drawing the interest of Division I coaches and all four of the players in this last group lead a talented group of returnees to local high school teams for the 2009-10 season.