The State Basketball Championships have grown into the largest qualifier-based tournaments in their respective states with 500+ teams in some events. Our events are unique as detailed below!

* State Basketball Championship's Qualifier League and Tournament list boasts some of the largest youth operators in the country including, but not limited to!: ICBA (Pennsylvania), CNR Basketball (Missouri), CYBN (Illinois), HoopSource Basketball, Mid America Youth Basketball (Kansas), Just For Hoopin (Arizona), Eastside Travel League and WA Youth Sports (Washington), and Gold Crown Basketball (Colorado).  In addition, State Basketball Championship qualifies teams via hundreds of local high school fundraiser tourneys each winter.

In 2012, Bill Reinking founded the National Middle School Basketball Association (NMSBA) with the mission of producing state-wide competition for the best youth basketball teams per state. The resulting State Basketball Championships have since taken root as annual, season-ending events in states across the USA. While our tournaments continue to expand across the nation, our mission to assemble the best youth teams remains the same wherever we go. To achieve this, we partner with independent tournaments and leagues to create a network of Qualifier Events through which top teams earn their bid to State. Our unique qualifier model serves to promote 500 community-based sports organizations nationwide, while funneling the fiercest and most geographically diverse competition into each State tournament. 

The NMSBA established an Executive Board plus individual State Representatives to produce the many elements of each State Tournament. Together, we constitute a proud team that shares a passion for youth basketball, with decades of collective experience as coaches, players, and managers of tournaments and leagues.