PGH OK Freshman Showcase: First Team All-Showcase

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Today we got to witness some of the best young talent in Oklahoma going head-to-head at The Hive in Edmond and words can hardly describe how much fun it was. At times it was surreal to think that these teams had just been thrown together hours before when you saw help defense force a turnover which moved into a fast break that ended in an out-of-nowhere pass to a cutting teammate. Everyone at the showcase today brought their "A" game, all of them, and these six athletes listed here stood out above the crowd. Congrats to our MVP, the First Team, and all of the other prospects in attendance!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center"} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><strong>Freshman Showcase MVP: [player_tooltip player_id='593784' first='Olivia' last='Stokes'] (6'0", PG, Locust Grove)</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:acf/evaluation-block {"name":"acf/evaluation-block","data":{"player_evaluations_0_player":["593784"],"_player_evaluations_0_player":"field_62ab9d62ecf2c","player_evaluations_0_override_profile_image":["override_image"],"_player_evaluations_0_override_profile_image":"override-player-profile-image","player_evaluations_0_player_featured_image":749843,"_player_evaluations_0_player_featured_image":"field_62f141137ead9","player_evaluations_0_not_in_database":"","_player_evaluations_0_not_in_database":"field_62aba48cecf2d","player_evaluations_0_evaluation":"The plan going in was always to have an All-Showcase First Team. I and every other scout there agreed within a few minutes of seeing Olivia play that she was probably going to be on that First Team. By the time the Showcase was over, we agreed that there needed to be some way to differentiate Olivia from the rest of the First Team. She was that dang good. Already at 6'0u0022 as an incoming freshman, she has the size to see over almost any defender. Not only does she see over them, she can SEE over them. Olivia has incredible vision and was hitting cutting teammates, open teammates, unsuspecting teammates... everyone. She can create her own shot with a bevy of moves and showed the ability to score from all three levels. 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