AAU basketball allows prep players to spread wings
By the middle of his sophomore season, it was clear that Kyle Collinsworth was a special talent.
At that time, he was 6-foot-5, had led Provo High to a state basketball title and had done so with the kind of ball-handling and passing ability usually seen out of tiny point guards. No matter how dominant he was for his high school team, however, Collinsworth knew there would be doubts about his ability at the national level.
However, all of that changed after Collinsworth spent that spring playing AAU ball for the Utah Pump-N-Run team — a stretch of games against top national competition that introduced him to college coaches and scouts from coast to coast.