USA Basketball Youth 5x5 Tournaments bring opportunity, standards and quality to the youth basketball environment while serving as a premiere competition environment for middle school through high school divisions.
For what it's worth, I can tell you when I coached my kids (I let Lauren start basketball in 2nd grade and Evan start in 1st grade because he was begging me), we did not play 5v5 until end of 3rd grade. Once they played 5v5 tournaments in 3rd grade, they played really good man ...