The sections at least have a little history in basketball, there's plenty of schools in Coon Rapids section that can put together competitive teams, I'm not really bothered if they get a quarterfinals spot over someone from a different section. I don't consider Coon Rapids to have had a more successful season than Hopkins simply because they made State.
I personally tend to like the section system in all sports, but understand some of the metro desire to get top teams in the top class to state, since a lot of them play across sections during the season and seeding would be easier.
Yikes. It's been rough for my alma mater today. Last year they beat Cherry on the way to the championship. Lost too much and Cherry is better now too.
He only knows information about the D1 recruits. You'd think he'd be more well versed and prepare for the gig a bit more.
Game ended with Cherry being held to 78 points while RTR had 48(?). Cherry has 21 games of over 90 this season so there's that. I forgot that there is running time when a team is up by so many points. That helped keep the score down.
Something I've always felt would be a good compromise that could work across all levels is to have the top two teams in a section play the top two in another one. Pair each section with another section. Get down to two teams in each section and instead of a section championship game, have them play the top two teams in the other section (1 vs 2, 2 vs 1). Winners go to state.
This seems like just making the State tournament a 16 team tournament. I don't see the value in it.
To me it's a balance between regional representation and getting more of the top teams in the state tournament.
Anyone know the #23 kid for DelaSalle? I think he's a north metro kid. Justin Johnson if the roster is correct.
All I know is his brother Kyle played for DLS too and now plays for St. John’s
Probably not the kid I thought he was, then.
He's a fringe top 150 player, I sincerely doubt he's getting a substantial bag.
He was impressive.....he's the kind of wing that we could really use. Somebody compared him to JOJ....not even close. He can handle the ball and score with either hand, shoots the 3, hustles and plays D. He sounded like a really intelligent kid after the game and looked like he displayed great sportsmanship during the game. If he isn't getting a "bag" and CBJ didn't even OFFER him? Bad talent assessment IMHO.
I agree with your assessment knowing very little. He looks much stronger and heavier than JOJ, but DeLaSalle looked small.
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What in past history would make you think that?
We did offer Gabby Johnson, however. He plans to major in Authentic Frontier Gibberish.
The Lake Conference alone has schools in section 2, 6 and 8. And there are only 7 schools in the conference.