The Katy ISD Girls Basketball Tournament comes to town this week and with it will come some great games between some of the best teams in the state as we gear up for district play early in the season.

32 teams from around the state of Texas will come together in Katy from Thursday-Saturday for the Katy ISD Girls Hoops Classic in what will bring some of the best talent from around the state in girls basketball will all face off at Seven Lakes, Jordan and Tompkins High School over the course of three days.

Seven Lakes, which is ranked No. 22 in the preseason Texas Association of Basketball Coaches poll, headlines the list of schools and they will be joined by seven of the nine schools in District 19-6A, including Tompkins, Jordan, Mayde Creek, Morton Ranch, Paetow and Katy. Those Katy ISD Schools will be joined by some some of the best teams around the area. Participants include Fulshear, Cy-Ranch, Bridgeland, Cy-Woods, Cy-Fair, Cy-Falls, Ridge Point, Langham Creek and the Woodlands.

The teams will be broken up into four bracket to start the tournament on Thursday, before moving up further based on their success on Friday and Saturday. It will end with three different brackets being formed on Friday and Saturday with the winners of those brackets earning top honors for the tournament.

The gold bracket, which will be held at Jordan, will include Jordan, Alief Taylor, Clements, Cy-Ranch, Clear Lake, The Woodlands, Fort Bend Travis and Cy-Woods. The red bracket will include Katy, Porter, Cy-Fair, Clear Brook, Paetow, Fort Bend Austin, Bridgeland and Fulshear. The navy bracket will have Tompkins, Alief Elsik, Klein Forest, Langham Creek, Morton Ranch, Spring, Cy-Falls and Fort Bend Crawford. The final group will be the orange bracket, which will include Seven Lakes, Klein Collins, Mayde Creek, Jersey Village, Fort Bend Bush, George Ranch, Ridge Point and Mansfield.

On Friday the winners of those four brackets will be placed into the Memorial Hermann bracket, where they will face off with a chance to advance to the top game of the tournament and a chance to win the entire thing on Saturday. The second place teams from each bracket will advance to the Katy Youth Basketball bracket where they will face off Friday and Saturday, while the third place teams will advance to the Dutch Bros bracket. The fourth-eighth place teams from each bracket will have their own brackets with chances to compete and win heading into Friday and Saturday.

The Tournament has put together a huge number of sponsers engaged in the local Katy community, including Memorial Hermann, Katy Youth Basketball, Whataburger, Dutch Bros Coffee, H-E-B, Mandito’s Tex Mex and Robert Andrew Laser and Medical

For more information on the tournament, go to https://sites.google.com/katyisd.org/katy-isd-tournaments/girls-basketball-home.

For live bracket results go to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16nuEixO_U1O1nn2cMc1lZXJmjyUO6Jtp0DjzK74d1jM/edit?gid=303222826#gid=303222826

For tickets to tournament games, go to https://www.vancoevents.com/us/events/landing/48495