It’s Christmas Tournament season (already) in boys basketball. We’ve already crowned a few tourney champs (Trinity Catholic over St. Joseph in the Northeast Classic; Newtown in the Weston Holiday Tourney) and we’ll crown some more tonight (Fairfield Prep Holiday Tournament: ND-Fairfield v. Fairfield Ludlowe; Merit Insurance Classic: Stratford v. Pomperaug).
This is usually the time when we enjoy some low-stakes hoops, take a deep breath and then take the plunge into the high-stakes league seasons.
Before we get to do that, let’s take a quick look at where we stand so far.
We’ll start with the state media poll, conducted by Mr. Hoops (for now).
Team…………………………………………Points……..Last
1. Trinity Catholic (4-0) (13)…………………….446………….1
2. Windsor (4-0) (2)………………………………420………….2
3. Hillhouse (3-0)………………………………….366………….3
4. Hartford Public (4-0)…………………………..342………….5
5. Sacred Heart (3-0)…………………………….296………..NR
6. Lyman Hall (3-0)……………………………….223………….6
7. Bloomfield (3-0)………………………………..222………….7
8T. St. Joseph (2-0)………………………………208………..10
8T. Crosby (3-1)…………………………………..208………….3
10. Wilbur Cross (4-0)…………………………..173………..NR
Dropped out: Harding (8), Torrington (9).
Others receiving votes: Holy Cross (4-0), 116; East Hartford (3-0), 102; Torrington (3-1), 88; Greenwich (4-0), 72; Stamford (4-0), 67; Cromwell (4-0), 65; Kolbe Cathedral (0-0), 61; East Catholic (2-0) and Notre Dame-Fairfield (3-0), 59; New London (4-1), 51; Staples (4-0), 39; Harding (1-1), 36; Stratford (2-0), 34; Notre Dame-West Haven (3-1), 24; New Britain (3-1), 18; Bristol Eastern (4-0), 9; Sheehan (3-1), 8; Norwich Free Academy (1-1) and Woodstock Academy (5-0), 7.
The following voted: Marc Allard, Norwich Bulletin; Bill Bloxsom, Hersam-Acorn; Sean Patrick Bowley, Connecticut Post; Matt Doran, Norwalk Hour; Scott Ferrari, Greenwich Citizen; Ned Griffen, The Day of New London; Mark Jaffee, Waterbury Republican-American; Sean Kroffsik, Meriden-Record Journal; Ken Lipshez, New Britain Herald; Joe Morelli, New Haven Register; Paul Nichols, Middletown Press; Dave Ruden, Stamford Advocate; John Silver, Journal Inquirer of Manchester; Ben Talbott, Bird’s Eye Sports; Tom Yantz, Hartford Courant.
Now, to the regional teams…
WHO’S HOT?
Trinity Catholic (4-0)… the state’s No. 1 is unbeaten, and rallied from a 6-point halftime deficit against St. Joseph to win the Northeast Classic. How they do it with just six guys…?
Staples (4-0)… Beat Westhill, beat Bassick. …So far so good for Oztmel, DeBartolomeo and the rest of the consensus preseason dark horses.
Greenwich (4-0)… Outside of Danbury, not a ton of impressive wins yet. But 4-0 is 4-0.
Stamford (5-0)… Now this is impressive: Wins over Danbury, Harding, McMahon and Weaver. …If he were in the Connecticut Post’s immediate region, standout guard and recently feted CT Post All-Star end Chris Evans would be in the running for athlete of the year.
Notre Dame-Fairfield (4-0)… Southington and Bunnell are among the vanquished. Takes on Ludlowe tonight in the Fairfield Prep Christmas Tournament final.
WHO’S NOT
The City of Bridgeport (6-7)… That’s right, the entire city has a losing record so far in December. Bassick was 0-2 before finally beating Wilton. …Harding is 1-1, with a telling loss to Stamford. …Central’s the only one over .500, but it lost a questionable game to Hyde. …Kolbe Cathedral and new coach C.J. Shamas didn’t even start its season until last night. Even then, they lost to Glastonbury …Bullard-Havens is 2-2.
…If things don’t change soon, it’s going to be a long season in Bridgeport.
And, finally…
Here are all the Connecticut Post roundups for the season so far:
December 17
December 18
December 26
December 27
December 29
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glad i waste my time calling you guys after all our games, when we are not mentioned in one of those box scores………guess i’ll stick with the republican at least they know how to do a good job with local teams
Comment by done — December 31st, 2008 @ 6:01 pm
Which school is this? None of the locals should ever be left out.
Comment by SPB — January 2nd, 2009 @ 2:18 pm