Who Run It is a high school alumni basketball tournament. Stars come back home, rep their old school, and ball out against other high schools' alumni for the bragging rights of the whole city. A portion of every weekend goes toward backpacks and local charities for the kids coming up behind them.
For the City. By the City. Who really runs it? Who Run It is an alumni basketball tournament created in Little Rock, for Little Rock. The concept is simple and electric: former players lace up one more time and return to represent the high schools that raised them. Old teammates reunite. Old rivalries come back to life. Gyms fill with familiar faces from every corner of the city, and for one weekend, the whole town gets to settle the question that never really goes away.
But the bragging rights are only the beginning. Every game at Who Run It is played for a purpose. Our tournaments raise money for local charities and community organizations, and pour directly into the next generation through backpacks, school supplies, and youth programming.
That is the vibe that sets Who Run It apart: a gym full of togetherness. Grandparents in the stands, our generation on the court, and the next generation watching it all. Seeing leaders, mentors, and givers who look like them and come from where they come from.
Alumni return to rep the high schools that raised them. Rivalries are renewed, legacies are honored, and city bragging rights are on the line.
We are a nonprofit created in and for Little Rock. Tournament weekends raise money for local charities and community organizations across the city.
Backpacks, school supplies, and youth programming go straight to our youth. Along with something bigger: a living example of giving back.
CREATED IN LITTLE ROCK · BUILT FOR LITTLE ROCK · POWERED BY PEOPLE WHO NEVER FORGOT WHERE THEY CAME FROM
The hoops are the hook. The community is the reason. A portion of every weekend funds programs designed to give back to the kids and the cities that raised these players in the first place.
School-ready backpacks distributed to local kids before fall semester. Pens, pencils, notebooks, the whole kit. Goal: 1,000 packs across the 2026 tour.
A portion of every weekend goes directly to local youth orgs and charities in each tour city — partners chosen on the ground, by the community, for the community.
Connecting the new school to the old — every roster runs the legends, the now, and the next.
Every player must have played for their school at least one full year to suit up.
Rosters cap at eleven — and that count includes the high schooler. No deep benches.
Every team carries a current high-school player. New school meets old school on one floor.
★ Only applies to the Little Rock location
Each school sends a single squad. Best of the best only — rep your city right.
Every team names a captain and may carry one coach on the bench.
Matching jerseys with numbers — former, current, or practice colors. Hoops shoes on, jewelry off.
watch the numbers count up ↓
The high-school MVP. Given to the one kid out of ten who outplayed his minutes against the legends and the players running it now. Voted by the squads. Engraved with the name of every winner before him.