Basketball preview: Prince George’s 3A/2A/1A boys

Mark Gail/THE WASHINGTON POST - Potomac’s Dion Wiley (far right) is one of the area’s most coveted recruits and will lead the Wolverines again this season.

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Dec 05, 2012 04:10 PM EST

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B.J. Koubaroulis and Brandon Parker preview some of the top players and programs in the DMV area to watch this basketball season.

B.J. Koubaroulis and Brandon Parker preview some of the top players and programs in the DMV area to watch this basketball season.

Top Players

G/F Dion Wiley, Potomac (Md.), 6-4, Jr.

G Jalen Harris, Gwynn Park, 6-2, Sr.

G Calvin Lovitt, Central, 5-11, Sr.

G Jeffrey Calhoun, Douglass, 5-7, Sr.

G Daemond Carter, Largo, 6-3, Sr.

Skinny

After leading the Wolverines to a breakout campaign last winter, Wiley (18.7 points per game) only boosted his stock in the offseason and enters the year as one of the area’s most sought-after recruits. . . . Harris (16 ppg) is Gwynn Park’s lone returning starter off a team that beat C.H. Flowers in the county championship game, but the Yellow Jackets added size with a pair of senior transfers in 6-foot-3, 275-pound Donovan Johnson (Surrattsville) and 6-foot-7, 270-pound John Wilburn (Bishop Ireton). . . . Though Largo lost five of its top six players, including second-team All-Met Derrick Colter, off the squad that fell in the Maryland 2A final, the Lions should have enough talent left over to make a run at their fourth state tournament appearance in seven years. . . . Steve Matthews, who spent 15 years at Gwynn Park, is the new coach at Crossland, taking over a team that returns just two players with varsity experience.

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