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Hello 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 2A 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 2 privates vs 2 charter schools. SCA and NWC and WWP and Precision. If you look at these 4 teams a majority of these players do not play football and Precision does not have a team. Many of these players are athletes who only play 1 sport as well so that basketball can be their main dedication.

The new 24 team format has now pitted the 2 privates vs one another and the 2 charters. More than private vs charter is that the finalist are all metro teams.

GBB:

On the girls side we have 3 private schools and the lone public school is none other than Pima who is playing their 1st year in 2A. Interesting note is that Pima, like Salt River petitioned to stay in 1A but were rejected. If Pima would have stayed in 1A that would have made all sports much tougher. By the way do not debate whether Pima would have won the 1A championship because SR beat them earlier in the season.

The big debate before the new 24 team format was that in the past they had the super regionals which matched all of the privates and many charters in one tournament and guaranteed the public schools one team in the finals. That was the POLITICALLY CORRECT BUT INCORRECT way on handling the private vs public debate rather than using a multiplier like many states or the format we have now.

If Pima and VC meet then this pits 2 teams who have yet to meet and could be a game with much anticipation. However, no matter who meets in the finals it will be VC vs the rest of the world as they try and claim the ultimate prize of a state championship that has eluded them since PRCA has been dominating the championships for some time.

The goal should always be to be fair and get the top teams to meet in the championships barring any upsets.

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.