Planning ahead - the top 10 J-Hawk MLK Showcase games

With Christmas tournaments behind us, high school basketball teams are gearing up for the major portion of their conference seasons.

Conference play though has one more interruption - Martin Luther King Day tournaments. Rockford Jefferson's fifth-annual J-Hawk MLK Showcase features 14 teams playing 23 games on January 14 and 16.

If you are a fan looking to come out to just a couple games on the schedule, here are the top 10 games using the MaxPreps.com state rankings.

No 1 - Deerfield (158) vs. Boylan (74), Jan. 14, 10:30 a.m., court one.
No. 2 - Elgin Larkin (230) vs. Boylan (74), Jan. 16, 7:30 p.m., court one.
No. 3 - Boylan (74) vs. Batavia (307), Jan. 16, 1:30 p.m., court one.
No. 4 - Elgin Larkin (230) vs. Deerfield (158), Jan. 14, 4:30 p.m., court one.
No. 5 - Jefferson (354) vs. Normal University (99), Jan. 16, noon, court one.
No. 6 - Boylan (74) vs. Toledo Rogers (388), Jan. 14, 7:30 p.m., court one.
No. 7 - Waukegan (120) vs. Jefferson (354), Jan. 16, 6 p.m., court one.
No. 8 - Jefferson (354) vs. Chicago Vocational (144), Jan. 14, 6 p.m., court one.
No. 9 - Deerfield (158) vs. Harlem (386), Jan. 16, 9 a.m., court one.
No. 10 - Toledo Rogers (388) vs. Deerfield (158), Jan. 16, noon, court two.