2015 Scope Holiday Classic

The City of Norfolk is pleased to announce tickets to the annual 2015 Scope Holiday Classic are on sale now!  The basketball games will take place from December 26 – December 29 and involve thirteen of the area's finest high school teams. Following on the success of the Eastern Region High School Basketball Tournament, which has been held at Scope for the past few years to the delight of thousands of fans, the 2015 Scope Holiday Classic will showcase the region's immense pool of talent in boys basketball. 

Bruce Phelps, former Coordinator of Student Activities for Virginia Beach City Public Schools, will serve as the Holiday Classic Director. The following schools will be represented in this year’s holiday classic:

Oscar Smith (Chesapeake)
Maury (Norfolk)
Tallwood (Virginia Beach)
Churchland (Portsmouth)
Jamestown (Williamsburg)
Bayside (Virginia Beach)
Booker T Washington (Norfolk)
Kellam (Virginia Beach)
Nansemond River (Suffolk)
First Colonial (Virginia Beach)
Granby (Norfolk)
Norview (Norfolk)
Green Run (VA Beach)

The complete schedule is as follows:

December 26, 2015

1:00 Oscar Smith vs Tallwood
3:00 BT Washington vs Kellam
5:00 First Colonial vs Maury
7:00 Green Run vs Granby

December 28, 2015

1:00 Churchland vs Oscar Smith
3:00 Nansemond River vs First Colonial
5:00 Kellam vs Maury
7:00 Granby vs Booker T. Washington

December 29, 2015

1:00 Jamestown vs Bayside
3:00 First Colonial vs Granby
5:00 Kellam vs Norview
7:00 Green Run vs Booker T. Washington

Home team are in BOLD

Norfolk Scope Arena has played host to a number of top sporting events in the region and is well known as an established all-purpose sports facility in Hampton Roads. Past basketball events held at Scope Arena have featured such greats as Indian River's Alonzo Mourning, Bethel's Allen Iverson and Maury's Joe Smith, all of whom had all-star careers in the NBA. In addition, Dr. J, one of the dominant players of his era and an innovator who changed the way the game was played, graced the court at Scope Arena while playing for the Virginia Squires of the ABA.

More recently, local athletes Dorian Finney-Smith from Norcom High School and Elizabeth Williams from Princess Anne High School helped to win basketball titles for their schools at Scope Arena during the men and women’s finals of the Eastern Region Basketball Tournament in 2010.  Kent Bazemore, an ODU alumnus who currently plays for the Atlanta Hawks of the NBA, also displayed his exceptional talent at Norfolk Scope when he helped advance ODU to the CIT quarters with a 65-56 win over USC in 2012.