{"id":457313,"date":"2026-10-05T21:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/457313\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T21:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:12:07","slug":"ready-to-hoop-the-h-town-classic-is-coming-to-the-academy-in-katy-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/457313\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready to hoop? The H-Town Classic is coming to the Academy in Katy this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOUSTON \u2013 Houston\u2019s youth basketball scene is gearing up for a weekend of competition, community, and plenty of fun at the first-ever H-Town Classic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The free, 3-on-3 tournament is bringing sport, kids, families, and neighborhoods together in at the Academy Sports + Outdoors in Katy. <\/p>\n

Teams from all over the Greater Houston area will compete, with each team is allowing up to 4 players.<\/p>\n

There are four divisions: middle school boys, middle school girls\u2026then high school boys, and high school girls. Grades 6 through 12 are covered, and the goal is for each team to play at least 2 games, with each game playing until first to 20 points or highest score within 20 minutes. <\/p>\n

The big event is happening at the Academy Sports + Outdoors on I-10 and Grand Parkway in Katy October 17th and 18th, where they\u2019ll transform the front lot into a basketball festival \u2014 with six, half-courts running at the same time. <\/p>\n

Registration is free for every team, and for every single team that registers, Academy will donate $100 to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Houston. <\/p>\n

And there\u2019s a prize! Everyone on the championship team will walk away with a championship belt, as well as every player gets a goodie bag and a team jersey.<\/p>\n

Registration<\/a> ends on October 9th, so make sure you sign up<\/a> now at academy.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Watch as H-Town Classic Ambassador and local 93.7 THE BEAT radio personality Kiotti Brown gives us all the details. <\/p>\n

Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 Houston\u2019s youth basketball scene is gearing up for a weekend of competition, community, and plenty of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[40595,1770,146311,440,156558,56,58,57,26984,6958,48726,1169,8824],"class_list":["post-457313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-academy","tag-basketball","tag-boys-girls-club","tag-event","tag-h-town-classic","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-jordan","tag-katy","tag-nike","tag-tournament","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}