The Bolingbrook High School girls basketball team will play in their second game of the Turkey Jamm Shootout in Memphis when they square off against Hillsboro at 2:30 p.m.
The Raiders will play Hillsboro High School on Saturday afternoon to conclude their season-opening trip.
Bolingbrook will counter its battle-hardened Tennessee foes with : junior forward ; senior guard Taylor Tuck (Illinois); Massengale (Tennessee); and senior Falon Edwards (Southern Illinois).
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"Everything we have been doing (in practice) has been preparing us for the first two games," said Morgan Tuck, who orally committed to the two-time defending NCAA champion Huskies' program last week.
"It's just great competition," Smith said of the rationale behind playing in national settings.
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For Massengale, the trip to Memphis is as symbolic as it is anticipating. The Raiders' floor leader committed to the famed Lady Vols' program and coach Pat Summit over the summer.
"My parents are both from Tennessee, and I still have relatives who live there," Massengale said. "In a way it will be like going home again."
In addition to his four collegiate-bound standouts, Smith has an all-junior echelon of players to seek a third consecutive state championship this season.
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