IDAHO FALLS — This weekend, 16 local and regional high school basketball teams — eight boys teams and eight girls teams — will converge on Idaho Falls and the Mountain America Center to decide who is the TitleOne champion. But those teams will play for much more than just hoop superiority.

Hillcrest boys and girls, Century boys and Shelley boys will represent eastern Idaho at the first-annual TitleOne Tip-Off Classic, joining teams from across the state and one team from Wyoming. By accepting the invite, all 16 teams have earned money for a non-profit organization of their choosing.

Ryan Taylor, Hillcrest High School’s head girls basketball coach and the TitleOne tournament director, said that the tournament organizers considered awarding all the money to the winners of the two brackets

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