Duke, UConn commits secure titles of their own on Final Four weekend

Fishers, Ind. -- Cayden Boozer tin vividly retrieve the carefree days increasing up successful the gym dominating imaginary defenders with his duplicate member Cameron.

The brace would number the seconds down aloud earlier sinking a leap changeable to assistance their dada Carlos Boozer's alma mater Duke Blue Devils to a nationalist title.

Kelis Fisher could subordinate to the preteen gym daydreams, but connected Saturday, the trio made the modulation from phantasy to world aft capturing the Chipotle Nationals rubric successful beforehand of an awesome contingent of erstwhile pros turned hoops dads.

Former NBA prima Jermaine O'Neal is the caput manager astatine Dynamic Prep (Texas). Another erstwhile NBA prima Jason Richardson's lad Jaxon plays for Columbus High School (Florida) and erstwhile NFL prima Marcus Spears' lad Marcus Jr. suits up for Dynamic Prep.

Cameron and Cayden combined to station 38 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists to pb Columbus past Dynamic Prep 67-49 successful the men's championship.

Fisher scored 23 points and handed retired 5 assists to assistance IMG Academy (Florida) knockoff Montverde Academy (Florida) 80-78 successful overtime for the women's championship.

All 3 judge their bully luck volition hitch disconnected connected their aboriginal assemblage teams this weekend.

Cameron and Cayden are signed to Duke, who tips disconnected against Houston successful the men's Final Four tonight, and Fisher is signed to the UConn Huskies, who volition look the South Carolina Gamecocks successful the women's nationalist rubric crippled connected Sunday.

"It's beauteous brainsick that we won the nationalist rubric successful the aforesaid play arsenic Duke is successful the Final Four," Cayden said. "It's similar a imagination travel true. We got it done, but it wasn't easy."

That's putting it mildly.

Cayden arrived astatine Saturday's rubric crippled successful melodramatic fashion, fielding an inbounds walk past darting down the level and draining a free-throw enactment fadeaway to assistance Columbus past Brewster Academy (New Hampshire) successful the semifinals connected Friday.

Fisher's way was astir identical, drafting the defence past kicking it retired to a teammate who drained a 3-pointer from the near helping to descend Westtown School (Pennsylvania) successful the semifinals.

"I wouldn't alteration anything," Fisher said. "I was assured each weekend, conscionable similar I'm assured astir my Huskies."

Fisher watched fractional of the Huskies 85-51 dismantling of UCLA connected Friday nighttime earlier resting up for her crippled but doesn't program to miss a 2nd of the nationalist rubric crippled connected Sunday.

"We conscionable won and my team's gonna win; that's however it's gonna be," Fisher said confidently. "Their threes and attacking the basket, that's gonna beryllium on. They're gonna spell done adversity, but they're gonna combat and it's gonna beryllium good."

Cameron and Cayden deliberation Duke's size and quality to predominate the crippled connected some ends volition yet pb the Blue Devils to the winner's circle.

"We've got large positional size, and there's sometimes we ticker and different teams are not getting immoderate cleanable looks, nary overgarment touches and offensively we stock the shot truthful well," Cameron said. "It's conscionable beauteous basketball."

Cayden ran a picturesque discourtesy of his ain this weekend, posting a game-high 27 points successful the rubric win.

With the occupation finished, he's trading successful reminiscing for anticipation.

"It each conscionable makes maine much excited for adjacent year," Cayden said. "We got the win, truthful I'm assured that my guys volition get the triumph too."