Northern New Mexico High School Basketball Updates

[bradly]

Originally Posted by rwalkernm

I haven't really looked too closely at the BV 4A situation. If LA beats Espanola in the district tournament, it guarantees LA a spot in the state tournament, but not a higher seed. LA beating Espanola would not make LA's strength score go above Espanola's anyway.

16 teams will go to state and there's only 13 teams with winning records, plus district-champ Academy with their zillion forfeits, so I am pretty sure all the teams that do have winning season records will get an invite to state -- so, LA will certainly go to state, win or lose at the dirstrict tournament, and the only thing the district tournament is going to accomplish is to expose players unnecessarily to getting injured. LA deserves a seed somewhere in the 5-7 range. 4 is too high.

I am not a big fan of the district tournament -- with so many at-large seeds and a 16-team bracket, I don't see that it accomplishes much useful.

Espanola and Deming have been tied for all practical purposes at #1 and #2 in the state for the last half of the season. As a first approximation, it doesn't matter which one gets the first seed and which one the second, as far as I am concerned. I think I'd prefer Espanola to get the #1 seed, or else bradly may not let me post here any more!

BobW

Deming will for sure get the #2 seed, they couldnt get the #1 seed even if Espanola lost to Los Alamos. Deming had too many losses on the season it affected them, sure they have several straight wins but it wont be enough to grab #1. So Espanola for sure will be first all money on that. Now will they take state? I hope so.. then again there is more competiton than I actually thought.

I'm not so much a fan of district games, but Espanola is always crazy about those games. Of course being #1 in the district for the third year in a row sure makes this town come together. There is an approximately 4,150 seat compacity in Medina Gym. As of early friday morning tickets wll go on sale and the game is expected to sell out before one, several hours before the game even starts.

And even if you dont back Espanola I will still let you post

[rwalkernm]

I posted predictions for all the state tournament games in the first round --

BV4A likely winners are: Espanola, St. Pius, Los Alamos, Artesia, Roswell, Academy, Belen, Deming.
GV4A likely winners are: St. Pius, Del Norte, Deming, Kirtland, Moriarty, Belen, Shiprock, Roswell

Closest BV 1st round games (possible upsets): Belen over Capital by 5, Los Alamos over Farmington by 7.
Closest GV 1st round games (possible upsets): Deming over Aztec by 2, Belen over Espanola by 3.

BV 3A likely winners: Hope, SFIS, Wingate, Sandia Prep, Portales, Socorro, Pojoaque, St. Mike's
GV 3A likely winners: Pojoaque, Socorro, SFIS, St. Mike's, Lovington, Robertson, W Las Vegas, Portales

Closest GV 3A games: Crownpoint/Robertson (tossup), Hope/SFIS.
Closest BV 3A games: Wingate/W Las Vegas (tossup), Lovington/SFIS (tossup).

BobW

NMAA Basketball -- 2008-2009 New Mexico High School Varsity Rankings
NMAA 2008-09 BV3A State Tournament Round 1
http://internet.cybermesa.com/~rwalker/nmhsbb/GV3AState16.html

[rwalkernm]

Time for an update. Teams from the north that made it to the semifinals are:

GV 2A: Texico
GV 3A: Pojoaque, St. Michael's, Robertson
(Pojoaque vs St. Michael's Thurs 11:30 AM)
(Robertson vs Portales Thurs 8 AM)

BV 2A: Springer, Mesa Vista, Texico
BV 3A: St. Michael's (plays Portales Fri at 1:15 PM)
BV 4A: Espanola (plays Artesia Thurs at 6:30 PM)

Congratulations to all teams. Games are streamed on the internet at www.nmaafilms.tv

BobW