A pair of former St. Louis area prep basketball standouts will be featured at this evening’s championship game at the Maui Jim Maui Invitational in Hawaii.
Arizona will face Creighton in the championship game today at 4 p.m.
The game will be televised nationally on ESPN. Former Webster Groves standout Courtney Ramey is a starting guard for Arizona while former Trinity Catholic standout Ryan Kalkbrenner is a starting center for Creighton. Both players have been excellent in helping their teams to the championship game.
In two games at Maui, the 6’3″ Ramey is averaging 19 points and five rebounds a game. He had 21 points and six rebounds in the Wildcats’ 87-70 victory over San Diego State in the semifinals. Ramey is a grad transfer who spent the past four seasons at Texas. The 7’1″ Kalkbrenner had 21 points, seven rebounds and two blocks in Creighton’s 90-87 victory over Arkansas in the other semifinal game. For the season, he is averaging 16.2 points, 6.2 rebounds and 1.5 blocks while shooting a whopping 77 percent from the field.
