Alabama’s All-Star boys’ and girls’ teams have been selected for the 34th annual Alabama-Mississippi All-Star Basketball Classic set to be played in Mississippi in March.

The two teams were announced Brandon Dean, director of the AHSAA’s Alabama High School Athletic Directors & Coaches Association today. The rosters of 12 players each were selected from coaches’ nominations by the AHSADCA All-Star Selection Committee.

“Once again our selection committee has completed a very difficult task and has done an outstanding job,” said Dean. “We had an abundance of talent to choose from thanks to our member school coaches who nominated so many deserving players.”

The Alabama girls are being coached by Hewitt-Trussville’s Tonya Hunter and Natasha Smallwood of Susan Moore High School. Tammy West of Cold Springs High School is Alabama’s administrative coach.

The Alabama boys’ all-star coaches are Patrick Harding of Buckhorn High School and Marshon Harper of Valley High School. Saraland’s Dru Powell is the boys’ administrative coach.

Among the top players on the Alabama girls’ roster are Hazel Green’s Leah Brooks and Pleasant Grove’s Tamya Smith. Both helped teams win state titles in 2023. Brooks plans to attend the University of Alabama and Smith will be heading the University of Memphis. Two other players, Syriah Daniels of Auburn, and Jordan Hunter of Hewitt-Trussville are heading to Auburn University. Hunter is the daughter of all-star team coach Tonya Hunter.

Harding and Hunter both coached their teams to state titles last season with the Bucks winning in Class 6A and the Rams going 33-0 to win the 5A state title. They will be coaching a team anchored by big men Brandon Thomas of Valley and Samford signee Caleb Harrison of Huntsville, who has helped the Class 7A Crimson Panthers advance to the Northeast Regional finals next week with a 31-2 record.

Fairhope guard Spence Sims is also heading to Alabama and Keith guard Tommy Tisdale had a career high 51 points in one game earlier this month.

Alabama swept the series last year with Alabama’s girls beating Mississippi 88-74 to improve to 19-14 in the series. The boys won 91-72 and now hold an 18-15 in the series, which was first played in Florence at the University of North Alabama in 1991.

This year’s all-star teams:

2024 ALABAMA BASKETBALL ALL-STARS

With name, school, position, height, coach and college choice

GIRLS

Syriah Daniels – Auburn – G – 6-0 – Courtney Pritchett – Auburn

Alana Obianozie – Bob Jones – G/SF – 5-8 – Jazmine Carr – Undecided

Janiyah Bone – Bob Jones – G – 5-8 – Jazmine Carr – Undecided

Ivey Maddox – Good Hope – G – 5-10 – Justin Aby – UAH

Leah Brooks – Hazel Green – F – 6-2 – Tim Miller – Alabama

Jordan Hunter – Hewitt-Trussville – PG – 5-10 – Tonya Hunter – Auburn

Jamiria Jones – Huffman – G/F – 5-9 – Lin Slater – Georgia Southern

Tamya Smith – Pleasant Grove – F/G – 6-2 – Walter Hicks – Memphis

Ava Card – St. James – CG – 6-0 – Katie Burton – UT-Chattanooga

Angela Williams – Shades Valley – G/F – 6-1 – Gary Ferguson – James Madison

Abethany James – Sparkman – PG/SG – 5-8 – Jarvis Wilson – Undecided

Jazmyn Bigham – Theodore – C – 6-0 – Ratassia Worsham – Undecided

BOYS

Jamicah Adair – Johnson Abernathy Graetz (JAG) – G – 5-11 – Charvez Davis – Undecided

Ty Davis – Mountain Brook – PG – 6-5 – Tyler Davis – Creighton

Tristan Gilmore – McAdory – G/F – 6-5 – James Poindexter – Undecided

Caleb Harrison – Huntsville – F/C – 6-10 – Christian Schweers – Samford

Jordan Johnson – Austin – G/F – 6-2 – Desmond Phillips – Undecided

Josiah Jones – Fairfield – SG – 5-11 – Maurice Ford – Undecided

Spence Sims – Fairhope – PG/SG – 6-1 – Solomon Johnson – Alabama

Brandon Thomas – Valley – PF/C – 6-7 – Marshon Harper – Undecided

Tommy Tisdale – Keith – SG/PG – 6-3 – Marcus Turner – Undecided

Jackson Weaver – Vestavia Hills – PG – 6-2 – Patrick Davis – UAH

Stephen Williams – Escambia County – C – 6-8 – Layton Knight – Undecided

Adrian Wooley – Paul W. Bryant – CG – 6-4 – Shon Peck-Love – Kennesaw State