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Hello sports fans!

Wow I hope you caught our show last night. We went thru and dissected our rankings and compared them to teams who moved on at each classification and I would like to say it really proves that we put a lot of effort into our rankings in order to evaluate teams. We have decided that next year in 2A we will be doing a top 20 since 24 teams make the playoffs. We already do top 15 and about 4-5 looking in so that will not be a problem.

Basketball:

We are now taking nominations for our All-State teams. WE have a 1A 1st and 2nd team in GBB/BBB. However this year we are also going to have our All-State Phenom Freshman Team. If you want to nominate a player you can email it to me with stats etc. We are also setting up a place for you to submit these names. 9th grade players will be put on the Phenom team instead of the regular All-State team.

The Freshman Phenom team must be a 9th grade player who started for a majority of the season. If he/she was not a starter but came off of the bench that would not qualify.

Some Interesting Tidbits

BBB:
In the boys final 4 we had 3 privates vs 1 Public school. VL, GC and St. Mikes and then Joe City. All of the final 4 teams in the boys division were above 100 enrollment with GC at 121 based on the 2 year block per the AIA. I do feel that the enrollment numbers are very important as with more numbers come more players for a team. I think the private is interesting only because you typically get more quality with the quantity.

Out of the 4 finalist only VL and JC played football. St. Mikes use to field a team but have not done so for some years. In the past 4 years we have had St. Gregs and GC win basketball titles. Neither of these teams field a football team. This may give the players more time to play basketball but I know some players participate in soccer as well.

Both teams that played for the championship were private schools.

GBB:

On the girls side we had all public schools but if I am correct Ft. Thomas has a boarding school and SR is actually a charter school, but that is still considered public.

Salt River became the first team this year to win a state championship after petitioning down to stay in 1A with an enrollment of 238. Traditionally the cut-off point has been about 200 plus or minus.

On the girls side we had more under 100 enrollment teams make the playoffs than the boys side:

Grand Canyon: 92
Patagonia: 91
Seligman: 70
Greenfields: 58

Transfers:
On the girls side both teams in the state championship were able to benefit by players transferring to their schools. I have no idea about other teams or the boys side.

Both teams that played for the championship were public schools.

Charter School State Championships:

AZSportsnetwork is trying to work it out where we would be web-casting the semi-finals and finals of the GBB/BBB Charter League State Championships taking place this weekend. Please stay tuned.