So, what are we to make of the notion that no Baltimore-area players were named to the rosters of either the McDonald's boys All-America game or the girls game, each to be played March 26 in Milwaukee?

Indeed, if you add the fact that no local girls were named to play in the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's All-Star Game in Tampa during the Final Four, you could get the idea that Baltimore-area basketball isn't as good as it's cracked up to be, which, of course, is silly. And, to be sure, so much of getting invited to these games is about the colleges that the kids choose rather than the high school they play for, or is it a shock that three boys chosen in the McDonald's game are going to North Carolina, while four girls in the McDonalds and WBCA games are going to Tennessee?

That said, it is strange that a boy from Virginia and a girl from Virginia and a girl from Delaware get chosen to play in the highest profile games, and no one from Maryland does.

It's an outrage!