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I agree that Holy Cross is the clear favorite. They have 3 very good players in Campbell, Berger and Mcclendon in addition to a deep bench. NCC however seems to be sorting some things out and developing a balanced attack. It could be a very close final.

Yes, but not as clear cut as it was a week ago. I would put New Cath just a notch below Holy Cross.

 

The draw is interesting. It almost looks like it was seeded with the exception of Holy Cross playing Heritage in an early round game. Pretty evenly balanced brackets.

Thank you!

ask.. and ye shall receive.

 

http://www.allaclassic.org/Boys%20Brackets/9th%20Region%20Boys%20Brackets.pdf

 

also, welcome to BGP!

Could someone post the bracket for the 9th Region All A?

Well I was one of the shooting guards and we use to say to each other if you pass the ball inside 4 things can happen and only one of them was good. The center could (1) turn the ball over (2) shoot it himself or (3) pass it to someone else. The only good thing was if they passed back out to us.

You seem to know a lot about playing in the middle. Did yoy play there in high school?

I agree completely with your comment about teams not knowing how to use a post player and the game being a guards game. If the guards would only realize how much easier it is to get good looks by "Going inside out" they could live on the jump shot. It is SO much easier getting the ball inside and having the center kick it back out than trying to run picks to get shots. I seriously don't think some guards even look inside. They are so intent on running off screens that they are oblivious to the post player being open. It happens on a lot of teams, but having seen NCC a couple of times in the Lloyd tourney there are times it looks like some people don't want the ball to go inside. I know the kid is only a freshman and that might factor into "sharing the ball", but when you have a force like that you have to use him until the other team stops him. He will make freshman mistakes, and I'm sure he has, but in the 2 games I saw he looked pretty good.