It’s a big weekend for high school basketball as 37 teams and some of the best players from across the region face off during a three-day tournament at Woodland Hills High School.

But the school district’s athletic director, Ron Coursey, hopes athletes and fans alike will see the event — dubbed the Stand Against Violence Showcase — as more than just a few dozen basketball games. The goal is to raise consciousness during the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend about gun violence in the immediate community and across the state and nation, he said.