basketball.com.au<\/a>. <\/p>\n\u201cYouth basketball is booming in Australia, and this is a great showcase of some of the elite high school programs, and a great addition to our ‘Home for Hoops’ offering. <\/p>\n
\u201cCongratulations to all the teams selected to compete, and best of luck this weekend. <\/p>\n
The Rising Stars Australia tournament has 30 games across three days at Melbourne\u2019s State Basketball Centre from May 8 to 10, 2026. <\/p>\n
Opening pool games begin Friday, boys quarter-finals and final pool matches headline Saturday, before semi-finals and Grand Finals decide the champions on Sunday.<\/p>\n
All tournament games will be streamed on the Rising Stars Australia YouTube Channel starting on Friday.<\/p>\n
Disney+ is $9.99 per month.<\/p>\n
Friday, May 8, 2026 \u2013 Pool Stage (Day 1)9:30AM \u2013 Boys Pool A \u2013 St Joseph’s College FTG vs St Patrick’s College Ballarat (Court 1)9:30AM \u2013 Boys Pool A \u2013 Berwick College vs Willetton Senior HS (Court 4)10AM \u2013 Girls \u2013 Barker College vs Flinders College (Court 2)11:30AM \u2013 Boys Pool B \u2013 Trinity College vs Rowville SC (Court 1)11:30AM \u2013 Boys Pool B \u2013 Templestowe College vs Western Heights College (Court 4)12PM \u2013 Girls \u2013 Rowville SC vs JSR Basketball (Court 2)1:30PM \u2013 Boys Pool A \u2013 St Patrick’s College Ballarat vs Berwick College (Court 1)1:30PM \u2013 Boys Pool A \u2013 Willetton Senior HS vs St Joseph’s College FTG (Court 4)2PM \u2013 Girls \u2013 Marist Regional College vs Barker College (Court 2)3:30PM \u2013 Boys Pool B \u2013 Rowville SC vs Templestowe College (Court 1)3:30PM \u2013 Boys Pool B \u2013 Western Heights College vs Trinity College (Court 4)4PM \u2013 Girls \u2013 Flinders College vs Rowville SC (Court 2)Saturday, May 9, 2026 \u2013 Pool Finals & Boys Quarter-Finals8AM \u2013 Girls \u2013 Barker College vs JSR Basketball (Court 1)8AM \u2013 Girls \u2013 Marist Regional College vs Flinders College (Court 4)8:30AM \u2013 Boys Pool B \u2013 Trinity College vs Templestowe College (Court 2)10AM \u2013 Boys Pool A \u2013 St Joseph’s College FTG vs Berwick College (Court 1)10AM \u2013 Boys Pool B \u2013 Western Heights College vs Rowville SC (Court 4)10:30AM \u2013 Boys Pool A \u2013 Willetton Senior HS vs St Patrick’s College Ballarat (Court 2)12PM \u2013 Girls \u2013 JSR Basketball vs Marist Regional College (Court 1)12PM \u2013 Girls \u2013 Rowville SC vs Barker College (Court 4)2PM \u2013 Boys Quarter-Final \u2013 1st Pool A vs 4th Pool B (Court 1)2PM \u2013 Boys Quarter-Final \u2013 2nd Pool A vs 3rd Pool B (Court 2)2PM \u2013 Boys Quarter-Final \u2013 2nd Pool B vs 3rd Pool A (Court 3)4PM \u2013 Boys Quarter-Final \u2013 1st Pool B vs 4th Pool A (Court 4)Sunday, May 10, 2026 \u2013 Finals Day8AM \u2013 Girls \u2013 Flinders College vs JSR Basketball (Court 1)8AM \u2013 Girls \u2013 Marist Regional College vs Rowville SC (Court 4)10AM \u2013 Boys Semi-Final \u2013 Winner Game #21 vs Winner Game #23 (Court 1)10AM \u2013 Boys Semi-Final \u2013 Winner Game #24 vs Winner Game #22 (Court 4)12:30PM \u2013 Girls Grand Final \u2013 1st vs 2nd (Court 1)2:30PM \u2013 Boys Grand Final \u2013 Winner Game #27 vs Winner Game #28 (Court 1)<\/p>\n
Some of the most famous American high school basketball games broadcast nationally include:<\/p>\n
LeBron James vs Oak Hill Academy (2002): ESPN televised LeBron\u2019s showdown against the No. 1-ranked team in the country, one of the first nationally televised regular-season high school games ever. LeBron finished with 31 points, 13 rebounds and six assists.Bronny James and Ziaire Williams at Sierra Canyon School (2019\u201320): ESPN aired 15 Sierra Canyon games nationally due to the massive attention on Bronny James and the celebrity-loaded roster.OJ Mayo vs Oak Hill Academy (2006): drew more than 16,000 fans and major national coverage during Mayo\u2019s rise as the top-ranked recruit in America.McDonald’s All-American Boys Game: annually televised on ESPN since the early 2000s, featuring future NBA stars such as LeBron James, Chris Paul, Kevin Durant and Zion Williamson.Montverde Academy vs IMG Academy and other GEICO Nationals matchups: nationally televised on ESPN platforms featuring elite prospects including Cade Cunningham, Scottie Barnes and Cooper Flagg.Hoophall Classic: annual ESPN-broadcast showcase event featuring top-ranked schools and future NBA lottery picks.<\/p>\n
LeBron\u2019s 2002 game against Oak Hill is widely considered the moment nationally televised high school basketball became mainstream in America.<\/p>\n
Australia hasn\u2019t really had a true equivalent to the American nationally televised high school basketball phenomenon \u2014 at least not at the scale of LeBron James at St. Vincent\u2013St. Mary or modern ESPN showcases.<\/p>\n
But there are a few important Australian examples and emerging moments:<\/p>\n
The 2026 NBA Rising Stars Invitational Australia Qualifiers: Arguably the closest Australia has come to a nationally packaged high school basketball event, with the Grand Finals streamed live on ESPN via Disney+ and all games streamed online.The Australian Schools Championships have been streamed nationally by KommunityTV, but haven\u2019t historically received mainstream broadcast attention comparable to ESPN’s high school coverage in the US.Elite NSW GPS\/AAGPS basketball rivalries \u2013 especially schools like St Joseph’s College, Hunters Hill, Newington College and The King’s School \u2013 have drawn large in-person crowds and online streams, but not national TV broadcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How to watch Rising Stars Australia Grand Finals live on ESPN, Disney+, Kayo and YouTube Global superstar LeBron…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-654041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}