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Moneyball Pro-Am basketball 2023 schedule, rosters, MSU pairings … – Lansing State Journal
The Lansing Moneyball Pro-Am summer basketball league rosters and schedule are set, again featuring Michigan State’s men’s basketball players — two per team — and other collegiate and former college players from around the state and Midwest, including much of Grand Valley State’s roster.
Games begin at 6 p.m. Thursday at Holt High School. The league picks up again after the July 4th holiday on Thursday, July 6 and, from there, runs every Tuesday and Thursday through Aug. 3, with games at 6 p.m., 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. Admission is free, with donations welcome.
This is the 18th year of the Moneyball Pro-Am, named for Moneyball Sportswear and organized by Moneyball founder Desmond Ferguson, a former Everett High School and University of Detroit star, who played in the summer pro-am for its first decade, during his pro career mostly overseas. The league took off as must-see summer entertainment during the Miles Bridges years.
This year’s top storylines begin with the arrival of MSU’s much-anticipated freshman class of Xavier Booker, Jeremy Fears Jr., Coen Carr and Gehrig Normand. NCAA rules allow no more than two players from the same college team on a pro-am team. Booker is paired with A.J. Hoggard. Carr and Normand are together. Fears is on his own. Other MSU pairings include Jaden Akins and Mady Sissoko, Tyson Walker and Carson Cooper, and Tre Holloman and Jaxon Kohler. Malik Hall, coming off foot surgery, is not taking part this summer.
In the first game on opening night (6 p.m. Thursday), Fears’ team faces Hoggard and Booker’s squad. Followed by Holloman and Kohler against Walker and Cooper (7 p.m.). Then the team with Normand and Carr plays Akins and Sissoko in the nightcap (8 p.m.).
Here are the complete Moneyball rosters and schedule:
Name, School
Tyson Walker, Michigan State
Carson Cooper, Michigan State
Will Dunn, Grand Valley State
Jalen Charity, Grand Valley State
Forrest Bouyer Jr., Calvin College (2021)
Nmeso Nnebedum, Christian Brothers
Jonathan Armstead-Wilkerson, Albion College (2015)
A.J. Hoggard, Michigan State
Xavier Booker, Michigan State
J Wallace, Lansing Community College
David Ferguson, Heidelberg
Nate Tucker, Trine
Drew Dentmond, Dillard (2018)
Jamyrin Jackson, Lansing Community College (2019)
Jaylin Fox, Kalamazoo Valley Community College
Ramere Draper, Kalamazoo Valley Community College
Jaden Akins, Michigan State
Mady Sissoko, Michigan State
DJ Swift, Monmouth College (2021)
Xaviah Andrews, Lansing Community College (2020)
Trevor Manuel, Olivet College (2019)
Colin Jones, Olivet College (2019)
Connor Bush, Lansing Community College
Tyshan Kelley, Lansing Community College
Dee Roberts, Olivet (2019)
Gehrig Norman, Michigan State
Coen Carr, Michigan State
Mason Docks, Grand Valley State
Shamus Thompson, Grand Valley State
Jacob Palakovich, Southern Indiana (2023)
James Brown, King (2022)
JJ Droughns, Lansing Community College (2009)
Deleon Brown, Grand Valley State
Derric Martin
Jeremy Fears Jr., Michigan State
Ian Jones, East Carolina
Maurice Benson, Indiana Tech (2006)
Muhammad El Amin, Stony Brook (2010)
Elijah Kess, Great Lakes Christian College
Shane Ross, Toledo (2007)
Caleb Hunter, Taylor
Caleb Hodgson, Taylor
Dario Milojevic, St. Michaels College
Jacob Howard, Aquinas College
Tre Holloman, Michigan State
Jaxon Kohler, Michigan State
Cameron Shaw, Findlay
Trenton Hankerson, Akron (2023)
Kameron Henderson, Wisconsin-Green Bay (2020)
Devan Wilson, Michigan-Dearborn (2021)
Jordan Henry, Roberts Wesleyan
Grant Stockford, Adrian College
Joshua Mann, Community College of Rhode Island
Diante Smith, Lansing Community College (2019)
Thursday, June 29
6 p.m.: Nano Magic vs. Faygo
7 p.m.: Goodfellas vs. Snipback
8 p.m.: 5 Star vs. Snipes
Thursday, July 6
6 p.m.: Snipes vs. Snipback
7 p.m.: Goodfellas vs. Faygo
8 p.m.: Nano Magic vs. 5 Star
Tuesday, July 11
6 p.m.: Goodfellas vs. 5 Star
7 p.m.: Snipes vs. Nano Magic
8 p.m.: Faygo vs. Snipback
Thursday, July 13
6 p.m.: Nano Magic vs. Snipback
7 p.m.: Faygo vs. 5 Star
8 p.m.: Goodfellas vs. Snipes
Tuesday, July 18
6 p.m.: Faygo vs. Snipes
7 p.m.: Snipback vs. 5 Star
8 p.m.: Goodfellas vs. Nano Magic
Thursday, July 20
6 p.m.: 5 Star vs. Nano Magic
7 p.m.: Faygo vs. Goodfellas
8 p.m.: Snipback vs. Snipes
Tuesday, July 25
6 p.m.: Snipback vs. Faygo
7 p.m.: 5 Star vs. Goodfellas
8 p.m.: Nano Magic vs. Snipes
Thursday, July 27
6 p.m.: Snipes vs. 5 Star
7 p.m.: Faygo vs. Nano Magic
8 p.m.: Snipback vs. Goodfellas
Tuesday, Aug. 1 (Playoffs)
6 p.m.: 3 seed vs. 4 seed
7 p.m.: 1 seed vs. 6 seed
8 p.m.: 2 seed vs. 5 seed
Thursday, Aug. 3 (Playoffs)
6 p.m.: Winner of 3/4 seed vs. Winner 2/5 seed (semis)
7 p.m.: Moneyball 3-point contest
8 p.m.: Winner 1/6 seed vs. 6 p.m. winner (championship)