Thursday, March 02, 2006
Tourney Time!
Next weekend its boys state basketball tourney weekend. As most of you know, it's my happy time. This year's tourney is looking to be wide open, i think that there are at least 3 teams in every class with a legit shot at a state title this year. Here is a link to his year's brackets.
Class A: Bellevue West will be trying to 3-peat. They have a sophomore guard (Antoine Young) who is the second best player in the state behind Lincoln SE's (or should i say Texas') Matt Hill. Lincoln NE has been rated #1 most of the year and looks to win their first title since the mid-90's when they won a buttload. They have the best shooter in the state (Andrew Bridger) and might be the team to dethrone BWest. LSE and Omaha Central both could contend as well.
My Pick: Bell. West
Sleeper: Omaha Bryan
Class B: What a cluster F*&% this turned out to be come district time. The top 4 in Wild Card points going into districts all lost...meaning Beatrice and Gretna both are left out of state. Aurora is the clear cut favorite here...2 losses on the season but both to a sneaky Crete team. Ralston has been hot lately and plays great D but struggles on the offensive end. Omaha Skutt enters as the #2 seed and might be Aurora's biggest hurdle. Blair could contend as they have 2 of the best players in the whole class but not much around them.
My Pick: Aurora
Sleeper: Crete
Class C-1: Wahoo Neumann will win this class, they are GOOD...and i'm not only saying that because they beat us by 40 the first time we played them. They face off with Boys Town in the first round who they beat 3 times this year but was the only team other than Class B Blair to ever really challenge Neumann. Pierce looks to be the top contender and had a great year. The Wild Cards in this class (Norfolk Catholic and Adams Central) should be a great first round game. The #3 seed is Louisville...I saw them play Neumann at the end of the year and it looked like Mid-Plains playing Duke.
My Pick: Neumann
Sleeper: Boys Town
Class C-2: Ravenna and David City Aquinas....that's all you need to know. These 2 teams are both good and would contend for larger class titles. Ravenna only lost to BWest by 10ish in their showdown...Aquinas lost twice to Neumann but kicked the crap out of good teams in larger classes all year. At the end of the year they beat 2 ranked class B teams and 3 ranked C-1 teams. If these 2 teams don't get upset it will set up as the most anticipated game of the whole tournament. Most people know how good Ravenna is because of their BWest game and all the times they scored 90 or 100 this year...but i'm here to tell you, they will have their hands full with Aquinas.
My Pick: Aquinas
Sleeper: Ponca
D-1 Pick: Humphrey St. Francis
Sleeper: Wauneta-Palisade
D-2 Pick: Spencer-Naper
Sleeper: Wallace
Predictions???
Wow i'm a nerd...OC when you coming down?
Class A: Bellevue West will be trying to 3-peat. They have a sophomore guard (Antoine Young) who is the second best player in the state behind Lincoln SE's (or should i say Texas') Matt Hill. Lincoln NE has been rated #1 most of the year and looks to win their first title since the mid-90's when they won a buttload. They have the best shooter in the state (Andrew Bridger) and might be the team to dethrone BWest. LSE and Omaha Central both could contend as well.
My Pick: Bell. West
Sleeper: Omaha Bryan
Class B: What a cluster F*&% this turned out to be come district time. The top 4 in Wild Card points going into districts all lost...meaning Beatrice and Gretna both are left out of state. Aurora is the clear cut favorite here...2 losses on the season but both to a sneaky Crete team. Ralston has been hot lately and plays great D but struggles on the offensive end. Omaha Skutt enters as the #2 seed and might be Aurora's biggest hurdle. Blair could contend as they have 2 of the best players in the whole class but not much around them.
My Pick: Aurora
Sleeper: Crete
Class C-1: Wahoo Neumann will win this class, they are GOOD...and i'm not only saying that because they beat us by 40 the first time we played them. They face off with Boys Town in the first round who they beat 3 times this year but was the only team other than Class B Blair to ever really challenge Neumann. Pierce looks to be the top contender and had a great year. The Wild Cards in this class (Norfolk Catholic and Adams Central) should be a great first round game. The #3 seed is Louisville...I saw them play Neumann at the end of the year and it looked like Mid-Plains playing Duke.
My Pick: Neumann
Sleeper: Boys Town
Class C-2: Ravenna and David City Aquinas....that's all you need to know. These 2 teams are both good and would contend for larger class titles. Ravenna only lost to BWest by 10ish in their showdown...Aquinas lost twice to Neumann but kicked the crap out of good teams in larger classes all year. At the end of the year they beat 2 ranked class B teams and 3 ranked C-1 teams. If these 2 teams don't get upset it will set up as the most anticipated game of the whole tournament. Most people know how good Ravenna is because of their BWest game and all the times they scored 90 or 100 this year...but i'm here to tell you, they will have their hands full with Aquinas.
My Pick: Aquinas
Sleeper: Ponca
D-1 Pick: Humphrey St. Francis
Sleeper: Wauneta-Palisade
D-2 Pick: Spencer-Naper
Sleeper: Wallace
Predictions???
Wow i'm a nerd...OC when you coming down?
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EZ-T - Don't go and forget about Norris. Of course I'm biased because my future bro - in - law plays for them, but listen up. I watched them play Aurora in the Holiday tourney, this was before Norris big man Ben Cruickshank came back from injury, Norris barely lost that game. It came down to the last minute. The big man is 6-8, not very mobile, but still he eats up boards and makes a difference. They're playing good right now and sometimes all it takes is a hot team at the right time, just like Pius in '04. Plus they beat Ralston 10 days ago, a team that you like.
I'm totally in agreement about C-2. If Ravenna and DCA meet in the final, which they will, that might be the marquee game of the entire state tournament.
I'm pumped there's a little HS basketball love here. As you guys noted, some of us over at the Option were on the Raymond Central bandwagon this year, but I mainly attended frustrating games (DCA, Syracuse, Fairbury to name a few).
And Beatrice not making it in class B is in sane. What voodoo was Norris working in that District? I saw two of their wins were in OT. Gering and Ralson sneaking in too--what a mess. Aurora could go through that bracket and not win by less than 15.
Look for Southeast to get a battle from Bryan--I like the upset there--I see Bryan is your darkhorse pick.
In C-1, I'll really have to hold back the tears knowing that Syracuse won't have a chance to repeat. Man, they've annoyed me the 4 or so times I've seen them play the last few years for soem reason. You should know this better than me, but am I right in thinking that even Pierce isn't going to be able to make any kind of run and Neumann?
I tried to get this discussion going on the Option BBS
http://p076.ezboard.com/fhuskeroptioniiifrm35.showMessage?topicID=831.topic
You can see the interest it generated. I'm a dork.
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I'm pumped there's a little HS basketball love here. As you guys noted, some of us over at the Option were on the Raymond Central bandwagon this year, but I mainly attended frustrating games (DCA, Syracuse, Fairbury to name a few).
And Beatrice not making it in class B is in sane. What voodoo was Norris working in that District? I saw two of their wins were in OT. Gering and Ralson sneaking in too--what a mess. Aurora could go through that bracket and not win by less than 15.
Look for Southeast to get a battle from Bryan--I like the upset there--I see Bryan is your darkhorse pick.
In C-1, I'll really have to hold back the tears knowing that Syracuse won't have a chance to repeat. Man, they've annoyed me the 4 or so times I've seen them play the last few years for soem reason. You should know this better than me, but am I right in thinking that even Pierce isn't going to be able to make any kind of run and Neumann?
I tried to get this discussion going on the Option BBS
http://p076.ezboard.com/fhuskeroptioniiifrm35.showMessage?topicID=831.topic
You can see the interest it generated. I'm a dork.
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