Running a basketball event with as many moving parts as Cali Live 24, University boys basketball coach Randy Bessolo prepared, if not braced, for missteps. Instead, the 168-team, three-day showcase that concluded Sunday and drew 116 college coaches and more than 7,000 fans at the 12-court Roebbelen Center in Roseville

A much-anticipated and long-awaited girls’ high school basketball tournament approved by the NCAA and the CIF tips-off Thursday morning and continues through Saturday at the Roebbelen Center in Roseville.

Roseville, Calif. – Some of the best-known and most highly recruited girls’ high school basketball players will compete in the first-ever Girls California Live 23 tournament Thursday through Saturday at the Roebbelen Center in Roseville, attracting about 4,000 athletes, coaches and fans – and scoring more than $1 million in revenue for the Placer Valley economy