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Montclair High Band Performs at College Basketball Tournaments
Local musicians represent college teams at 2K Sports Classic and Legends Classic.
Every year around this time, members of the Montclair High School band get a taste of college life by performing at two major basketball tournaments.
On Monday and Tuesday night this week, the Montclair High Band travels to Brooklyn to represent the University of Houston at the Legends Classic college basketball tournament at the Barclays Center.
The game airs at 7 p.m. EST on ESPN3.
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The band has been invited for more than a decade to play during the 2K Sports Classic Basketball Tournament at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Over the weekend, the band represented Indiana University, performing the Hoosiers fight song, as well as tunes familiar to fans of Montclair’s football team, according to Alyson Wasko at the high school.
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The students also got to play during pre-game and halftime, and alternated time-outs with the opposing band, Wasko said.
The tournament, which includes Syracuse, Mississippi State, Villanova and other colleges, airs on ESPN.
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