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City of Palms live blog, Day 1 recap

FORT MYERS, Fla. – The center of the high school basketball universe for the next week is Bishop Verot High School, the site of the City of Palms Classic, hands down the top tournament in the country.

And The Post is there. CHSAA beat writer Dylan Butler is in the Sunshine State and will detail every game of the tournament, which features six nationally-ranked teams, including a Christ the King squad currently No. 4 in the country by USA Today.

The action gets started Friday afternoon and we’ll have every second of it in our interactive live blog.

Here is Friday’s schedule:

4 p.m. – Norfolk Christian (Va.) vs. No. 8 Dr. Krop (Fla)

5:45 p.m. – Bishop Verot (Fla) vs. Thomasville (Ga) (Sunshine Series game)

7:45 p.m. – No. 16 Bishop Gorman (Nev.) vs. North Port (Fla.)

9:30 p.m. – Melrose (Tenn.) vs. Whitney Young (Ill.)

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