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February, 2001

2/28/01  Bergen Jazz -- Girls 12U AAU Basketball Tryouts  --  Will take place this Saturday March 3, 2001 from 10:00 to 11:30 at:Immaculate Heart Academy (IHA), 500 Van Emburgh Avenue,  Washington Township, New Jersey 07675.  (Bergen County)  No pre-registration required.  For more information call Coach Jeff Horohonich at 201-791-0342.

2/28/01 Glenn Bynes:  'This is just a message for you guys to check out Marvin Taylor from New Brunswick HS. He's only a sophomore. He played JV and moved up to varsity last year. He has done well for NBHS carrying them in a balanced attack with other young players. They gave 19th ranked Colonia a good battle before losing 65-60 in the Greater Middlesex County Tournament.  Taylor is averaging around 16 pts pg. NBHS is currently 18-6. Other key players are: * Greg Dotson 6'4 Jr. starter,  * Tim McDougald 6'2 Sr starter,  * Dwayne Jarret 6'5 Fr. starter potential All Stater by 2004,  * Javon Berry 5'10 Sr. starter,  * Eric Bynes 5'11 So,  * Eric Jones 5'10 Sr,  * Seab Smith 6'5 Sr.   They may not win Group II this year but they have the athletes to make a run at it. They are young an still creating chemistry between each other.'

2/28/01  Newsday:  Garnett Thompson's Challenge: Classroom.  Providence hopes Suffolk standout will make grades.

2/28/01  Daily News: Roosevelt Executes Its 'A' Game.  

2/28/01 Nathan Blue's Real Scout Hoop Summary -- Kenny Eusey and the PSAL playoffs.

2/28/01 Jersey Journal:  What makes Prep a champion? Love and a lot of love.

2/28/01 BRO:  Bosco picks up the pace, and a win.  Web note:  According to Terrell Biggs' grandfather, who was at IS8 on Sunday, the talented eighth grader will be enrolled at DBP next year.

2/28/01 NJ Hoops:  Don Bosco Prep.

2/28/01 Brooklyn Scout: NYC JUCO Update from Big Apple Sports.

2/28/01 NJO:  Boys Basketball Top 20.

2/28/01  USA Today Super 25 boys basketball rankings lists All Hallows @ 18,  CBA @ 20 and Camden @ 21.

2/28/01 HoopUSA - Consensus Top Teams - 2000-2001 - Week of February 25, 2001.

2/28/01 Rollelib: 'St Dominic'x JV team was the champ on Long Island this year. They beat Chaminade in the championship game on Feb 18. This is a great team that went 12-0 in league play 22-1 overall, beating St. Raymonds, Christ the King , Molloy and LaSalle to name a few non league games. Their only lost was to Bishop Loughlin and who knows how a rematch would turn out. There are some bright stars on this teams and we look forward to seeing what happens next year.'

2/27/01 Cspotd:  'Archbishop Molloy's Junior Varsity rallied back from an 11 point deficit in the third quarter to defeat Bishop Loughlin. Molloy will play All Hallows Friday night for the city championship. Congratulations to Coach Shannon, he has now reached the city finals in all three years he has been a J.V. coach.'

2/27/01 Coach Kevin Pigott:  'Tonight both Xaverian and Holy Cross won. I believe they will play Friday for the Brooklyn-Queens championship.  This makes the CHSAA City playoff seeding interesting.  Correct me if I am wrong, but now McClancy, the seventh seed in Bronx - Manhattan, will have to play Brooklyn - Queens three seed Christ the King. (The last team in Brookyn - Queens, ie., McClancy, becomes the last seed for Bronx- Manhattan.) Molloy, a four seed will play five seed LaSalle. That makes Loughlin a five seed and St. Francis Prep a six seed from Brooklyn - Queens. Loughlin plays Bronx - Manhattan four and Prep plays the third seed. Wednesday's Bronx - Manhattan semifinals take on a different spin now. Rice plays Raymond's at 5 PM followed by All Hallows and St. Peter's.'

2/27/01  Hassan Jennings and Anthony Meyers assist Pete Edwards at IS8 -- scorebooks, clock, mike, security -- whatever.  They saw every game of this winter classic and gave me their tournament all star picks on short notice.  My thanks to both of you - for the picks and for the help during each season.

Hassan:  Junior division-- James Barrett MVP,  Freddie Jenkins (Sportsmanship award),  Yadda Gaines,  Ronald Ramon and Cameron Tyler.  Midgets:  Mike Johnson MVP,  Chris Martin,  Nayan Boutang (Sportsmanship award), Joe Vines and Raymell Rice.  Biddies:  Erving Walker (Sportsmanship award),  Ricky Remy,  Vincent Natut MVP, Malik Boothe and Ryan Davis.  

Anthony:  Junior division Courtney Johnson,  Cameron Tyler,  Sundiatta Gaines,  Jamel Lynch and Freddie Jenkins.  Midgets:  Brandon Brock,  Mike Johnson,  Chris Martin,  Joe Vines and Willis Kettrell.  Biddies Vincent Natut,  Malik Boothe,  Ryan Davis,  Erving Walker, Silvan Landesburg and Michael Douglas.

Other top players were Sequon Stone, Holland Adams and Albert Handy in the Midgets and Derrick (Shaq) Ballard,  Rattike (Rocky) Begnum and Dwayne Thomas in the Biddies.  More on the IS8 Winter 2001 page.

2/27/01 Nathan Blue's Real Scout Hoop Summary -- Julius Hodge is a McDonald's All American!

2/27/01 Daily News/MSG Top 10.

2/27/01 All Star Report:  McDonald's Rosters.

2/27/01 School Sports:  McDonald’s Takes Diop, Carruth; Edelin Bypassed.

2/27/01 BRO: Clifton falls to long shots by Ridgewood -- results of the first round of the New Jersey state tournament.

2/27/01 Pro Style 2K 1, "Winter League Basketball"  weekend results.  * 2-0 Scores are the result of forfeits. * Saturday, February 24th,  Riverside Church Day  --  (SB) Riverside Hawks (2) NYC Rise Panthers (0),   (SB) New Jersey Flames (25) Riverside Future Stars (16),   (B) Riverside Hawks (57) Team Marbury (30),   (M) Riverside Future Stars (53) Harlem Lions (9),   (JR) Riverside Hawks (98) Roberto Clemente Pirates (17),   (JR) Washington Heights Warriors (58) Riverside Future Stars (56),   (SR) Kips Bay (74) Riverside Hawks (69).

* Sunday, February 25th.  --  (B) Gauchos (47) New Jersey Flames (6),   (B) Gauchos (39) Sharon's All-Stars (7),   (M) Wolfpack (71) Westchester Hoops (57),  (M) New Jersey Flames (66) M CAP (39),   (M) Riverside Hawks (2) Positive Direction (0),   (JR) Rockland P.A.L. (78) Gauchos (70),   (SR) L PAC Knights (83) Each One Teach One (63).  Web note:  Background on the Pro Style 2K 1, Winter League Basketball page.

2/26/01 Adrian Armstrong: 'UDC summer basketball league applications are available by contacting Adrian Armstrong at 718 231-4201, or sending an email to theudc@aol.com. Deadline for submission is March 20.'

2/26/01 Coach Kevin Pigott:  'On Friday at 8 PM, Fordham Prep plays Mount St. Michael at St. Raymond's. This is one of four quarterfinal "B"  games. The other three games will be played on Saturday.  At Bishop Ford in Brooklyn, there are two games. At 1 PM  Iona Prep plays Xavier and at 3 PM St. Edmund's plays Nazareth. Cardinal Hayes and Cardinal Spellman play at Mount St. Michael in the Bronx at 5 PM. There are two "C" semifinal games at Mount on Saturday also. At 1 PM, Regis meets St. Joseph By-the-Sea and at 6:40 PM Queens Cathedral Prep plays St. Agnes.  By the way, the "A" Bronx-Manhattan Championship will be played on Saturday at the Mount at 3 PM. The "A"  semifinals will be played this Wednesday at St. Raymond's. At 5 PM Rice plays Raymond's and at 6:45 PM All Hallows plays St. Peter's.'

2/26/01  NJO:  St. Anthony startles Camden.

2/26/01  InJersey: 'All-tournament boys basketball teams, as chosen by the Home News Tribune -- GMC -- Justin Chiera, Colonia, Chinedu Ibeh, Colonia, Greg Kuchinski, St. Joseph,  Preston Beverly, St. Joseph, Bob Henning, East Brunswick,  Omar Alston, Carteret.  Union County -- Greg Parker, Linden,  Don Busby, Linden,  Marcus Austin, St. Patrick,  Phil Bauknight, Linden,  Amar Dixon, Plainfield.   Somerset County -- Matt Hengemuhle, Bridgewater,  Adam Gibbons, Bridgewater,  Val Barnaby, Franklin,  Craig Clemente, Immaculata,  Kerry Foderingham, Somerville.'

2/26/01  National Prep Basketball Poll - Week 14.

2/26/01  Pdiddy9682:  'JV Final 4 -- All Hallows Vs Christ the King. Loughlin Vs Molloy. The first game showcases argueably the best freshman and sophomore players on the JV level with freshman Ronald Ramon for All Hallows and sophomore Justin Marshall of CK. The second game features Loughlin and Molloy who split there season series. Both games will be played at St. Raymond tomorrow.'

2/26/01 James Quinn:  'Local McDonald's Snub -- How about Rashad Bell of St. Francis Prep not making the final 100? The McDonald's game is all about selecting names, not players. Wendall Gibson, Chris McRae and Julius Hodge are no doubt deserving of the honor but you basically could have written these kids in before the season because of their respective programs and coaches, who do a tremendous job. These three also had great junior years and summers and signed Division I letters of intent prior to the season. Just because Rashad did not have the name should not mean that he doesn't get considered because he had just as good, if not, a better season that all three.'

2/26/01 Inquirer: Camden clobbered for 1st loss.

2/26/01 South Jersey News:  Camden loses to St. Anthony.  

2/26/01 NJ Hoops:  Camden Upset. And CBA tops Neptune.

2/26/01 100 Hoops:  TaQuan Dean Ready To Compete.

2/26/01 BRO: Bergen Catholic crunches Teaneck.  And Let the games begin; may the best teams win.

2/26/01 Daily News:  Chris Fileti, Holy Cross Knock Off Loughlin.  

2/26/01 Coach Kenny Pretlow:  'Riverside went 5-3 on Riverside Day. The Super Biddy "A' team defeated NYC Panthers by Forfiet. The Biddies crushed Team Marbury 56-27. The Riverside Hawks midgets defeated the Wolfpack aslo on forfiet. The Riverside future stars midgets routed the Harlem Lions by over thirty points. The Riverside Hawks juniors bounced the Roberto Clemente Pirates 98-17. The Riverside future stars juniors lost a close one to the Washington Warriors 56-54. The riverside seniors lost a close one also to Kips Bay by 4 points. Overall not a bad Saturday for the Church.'  Web note:  Background on the Pro Style 2K 1, Winter League Basketball page.

2/25/01 100 Hoops:  Sunday In New Jersey.

2/25/01  South Jersey News:  Camden shows it's more than Wagner in victory.

2/25/01 Insiders Report:  Tristan Smith and Jason Fraser shine.

2/25/01 BRO:  Fabulous at fifty: Jamboree celebrating its golden anniversary.  And Tonight Jambo honors '50s All-Decade team.  And Passaic proves it's best.

2/25/01 John P. Miciotta:  'Brooklyn-Queens seeding round -- Game one saw second-seeded Xaverian hold off seventh seeded McClancy 51-42. The Crusaders used a slow tempo and the hot shooting of Kevin Bishop to keep it close early but hot shooting by the Clippers' Lou Karis and a fine defensive and rebounding effort off the bench by Shamar Green allowed the Xaverian to pull away late. They face Molloy who cruised to a 16 point win over St. Francis Prep. John Sikric set the tone early with fine outside shooting and a fine all around effort by junior swingman Jamal Wagner, who battled Rashad Bell on the boards and created turnovers with terrific perimeter defense. The Clippers and Stanners face off in Tuesday's first semi-final at 4:15 at St. Francis College. The second semi-final has number one seed Christ the King facing the winner of the 4-5 game Holy Cross and Loughlin. Ted Gustus' Lions were leading at the half 36-31 thanks to a fast start by their two mainstays Ted Munford and Curtis Sumpter.'

2/25/01 EDavi11812:  'Holy Cross defeats Loughlin 77-74 to play Christ the King. Cross will play CK Tuesday at St. Francis College. Loughlin lead throughout most of the game, but with a lot of fouls they gave the game away. Ted Munford led the Lions with 21 points and 6 assists. Timeke Mitchell with 20 points and 12 rebounds and Curtis Sumpter with 16 points and 10 boards for the Lions. #12 Chris Fileti led Cross with 20 points. #44 Joe Marino with 19 points, #21 Mike Howell with 14 points and #31 Adam Frederil with 11 points for Cross. It was the best game of the day. Good ball movements from each team. The Lions needed to put a more efficient defender on Fileti. he was hitting 3 pointers all game. He got his 4th 3-pointer to give Cross the lead.'

2/25/01  I drive past Yankee Stadium on the way home from IS8 - the sign says there are 38 days to Opening Day.  What's spring training to the World Champions is March Madness and then some for the rest of us.  Today's IS8 Championship Sunday was a start.  80 Park won the Biddie and Midget games while Riverside Church took the Junior game. More on the IS8 Winter 2001 page.

2/25/00  Winston Kelly@GameBall Magazine:  'Rod Strickland/Tiny Archibold Summer League Applications are being mailed out on March 1, 2001. If you are interested in your organization receiving an application, please email Mary Hallinan, at mhall11207@aol.com or leave a message at (212)942-5540 with your mailing address. Spots will be filled on a first come, first pay basis.'

2/25/00 Brooklyn Scout:  'It will be Riverside vs. Brooklyn USA in the IS 8 Junior Finals. Brooklyn USA led the Ajax Gauchos from the opening minutes but didn't put the game away until a 13-4 run to start the fourth quarter propelled Brooklyn USA to a 55-37 victory and a berth in the Junior division championship game. Angel Alaimo, Kenneth Hayes, Freddie Jenkins and Timothy Tillery all had 9 points in the balanced Brooklyn USA scoring. Shahee Martin had a game-high 15 for Ajax while Devon Brown added 8 points.

Riverside coasted to leads of 14-2 after one and 26-3 at the half en route to a 51-18 romp over the Skyriders to advance to the Junior title contest. Courtney Johnson and Billy Gilbert each tallied 11 points for the Church while Aaron Harvey topped the Skyriders with 9.'

2/24/00 Matt Grasso:  'This past Friday night, Kennedy beat Sleepy Hollow 84-60 to advance to the Westchester County Center for the 3rd year in a row. They were paced by Bobby Serafin who led the way with a game high 32 points including two rim rockers. Bobby was also very effective on the defensive end holding Sleepy Hollow's Greg Cole to a lackluster 22 points for Sleepy Hollow. This game also marked the return of injured wing man James Gray. He looked back to his old form knocking down his first shot, a three pointer from the corner, soon after his entrance into the game sparking a thunderous applause from the near sell out crowd at Kennedy High School. Gray finished with 8 points for the Gaels. Also in the scorebook for Kennedy, Brian O'Donnell put up 17 and Donnie McGrath chipped in 15 points and 10 dimes for Kennedy Catholic. The Kennedy Gaels continue the defense of their sectional championship from last year Thursday night at 6:15 pm against the runner up from last year, Nyack. The Gaels defeated Nyack 67-56 in their season opener this year as well as defeating them last year in the title game.'

2/24/00 Peter Abraham, The Journal News: Markus Austin.

2/24/01  An 80 Park team will play in tomorrow's Biddie and Midget IS8 championship games against Wolfpack and Brooklyn USA, respectively.  Today's game summaries areon the IS8 Winter 2001 page.

2/24/01 Frank:  'ECT final -- Shabazz 49 Seton Hall Prep 44. Bulldogs end Prep's 5 year county reign. And Linden 76 St. Pats 59!  This is one score I find hard to believe.' More on the ECT, 2001 page.

2/24/01 School Sports:  McDonald’s All-American Game Snubs.

2/24/01 BRO: Passaic Indians want to stay in the zone.

2/24/01 NJO: Seton Hall Prep, despite 5 straight titles, takes a task-at-hand attitude.  And Passaic Tech, Passaic clash for crown.

2/24/01 Insiders Report:  Mike Grinnon & Tim Doyle Star.

2/24/01  Daily News:   John Baiano, St. Peter's Battle Past LaSalle.

2/24/00 Peter F. Edwards - IS8:  'Today's semifinal schedule is Biddies 80 Park vs Riverside 9:15am. Wolfpack-A vs Bklyn USA 10:15am.   Midgets Riverside Church vs 80 Park 11:15am. Gaucho vs Bklyn USA 12:15pm.   Juniors Riverside Church vs Skyriders 1:15pm. Rise Above Bklyn USA 2:30pm.'  

2/24/00 Peter Abraham, The Journal News:  Mt Vernon takes Poughkeepsie 81 - 65.

2/24/00 Peter Abraham:  'Section 1 semifinals (all games at Westchester County Center, White Plains).  Wednesday -- Class A semifinal: White Plains (21-1) vs. Ramapo (18-4), 4:30 p.m.  Thursday -- Class A semifinal: Mount Vernon (16-6) vs. Spring Valley (20-2), 4:30 p.m.   Class B semifinal: Nyack (20-2) vs. Kennedy-Somers (20-2), 6:15 p.m. Class B semifinal: Greeley (21-1) vs. Peekskill (19-3), 8 p.m.  Friday: Class D semifinal: Tuckahoe (17-4) vs. Blind Brook (19-1), 3:30 p.m. Class D semifinal: Haldane (17-3) vs. Alexander Hamilton (15-6), 5:15 p.m. Class C semifinal: Woodlands 14-8) vs. Woodlands (17-3), 7 p.m. Class C semifinal: Pleasantville (16-6) vs. Dobbs Ferry (18-3), 8:45 p.m.  All finals on Sunday, March 3 Class A: 1 p.m. Class B 3 p.m. Class C: 5 p.m. Class D: 7 p.m.

Of note: All four defending champions -- Mount Vernon (A), Kennedy (B), Pleasantville (C) and Hamilton (D) remain alive. ... Division I prospects in the field include 6-2 Sr. Ben Gordon (Mount Vernon, UConn); 6-5 Sr. Markus Austin (White Plains, Eastern Michigan); 6-5 Sr. Kyl Jones (Pleasantville, undecided although leaning to Fairfield); 6-2 Jr. Jomo Belfor (Mount Vernon); 6-0 Sr. Jason Bayuk (White Plains, undecided); 5-11 Jr. Will Cherry (Mount Vernon); 6-8 Soph. Hilton Armstrong (Peekskill); 5-10 Jr. Rashard Turner (Peekskill); 6-3 Jr. Donnie McGrath (Kennedy); 6-3 Sr. Kudjo Sogadzi (Nyack, undecided); 6-4 Sr. Alvin Carter (Nyack, undecided); 6-5 Jr. Justice Hall (Hamilton); 6-0 Soph. Divone Wise (Ramapo via Brooklyn). ... Win streaks: Nyack 18, Blind Brook 14, Dobbs Ferry 14, Woodlands 14, Kennedy 14, Greeley 8.'

2/24/00 Rich G:  'In Section 1, Class B, Kennedy (Somers) whipped Sleepy Hollow, 84-60 behind Bobby Serafin's 32 points. Kennedy came out running and blew through Sleepy Hollow's man-to-man defense. Sleepy Hollow made a run late in the first quarter and closed to within four points, but Kennedy pulled away in the second period and never looked back. Serafin was a monster around the basket, showing a deft touch in close and also slamming through two thunderous dunks. But the big news for Kennedy is that their best 3-point shooter, James Gray, is back in action after an extended layoff due to an ankle injury. He looked a bit rusty but gained confidence as the game wore on -- he nailed two treys and another long jumper just inside the line. The Gaels are slated to meet the winner of the Nyack-Nanuet game in the semis on Thursday night at the County Center. Kennedy beat Nyack by 11 in their season opener in December.'

2/23/01 Coach Kevin Pigott:  'Two great games tonight. Xavier defeated St. John's Prep in a close game 56-43 to give them the frosh championship. Congrats to Coach Greg Dolan. The JV championship was a "barn-burner." St. Edmund's defeated St. Josephs By-the-Sea 52-51. Matt Irwin (yes, another Irwin playing the point for Edmund's) had 25 points. Power forward Andy Louison added ten points. John Culotta had 20 for the Vikings. Congrats to Coach Chris Wright. I was impressed with the level of play for all four teams.'

2/23/01 100 Hoops:  Curtis Sumpter Remains Pretty Open.

2/23/01  IS8 Biddie quarterfinals tonight - four games from 6:00 to 10:00.  The semis are on Saturday - Biddies at 9:15 and 10:15,  Midgets at 11:15 and 12:15 and Juniors at 1:15 and 2:30.  Sunday, 2/25 is for the championship games - Biddies at 9:15, Midgets at 10:30 and Juniors at 11:45.  Background on the IS8 Winter 2001 page.

2/23/01 Tomorrow is Riverside Church Day at Pro Style.  Weekend schedulesis on the Pro Style 2K 1, Winter League Basketball page.

2/23/01  Juco Junction:  Rutgers U Offers Butler SF, New Jersey native, Kasib Powell.

2/23/01  NJ Hoops:  The Super 6 -- 1. Camden 21-0,  2. C.B.A. 21-0,  3. St. Anthony's 20-3,  4. St. Augustine's 21-2,  5. Shabazz 22-1,  6. Camden Catholic 20-3.

2/23/01  South Jersey News:  Dajuan Wagner scores 53 as Camden wins division.

2/23/01 Brooklyn Scout:  Big Apple Sports link is http://www.eteamz.com/bigapplesports -- NYC JUCO Update.

2/23/01 100 Hoops:  Virginia Beach, junior point guard, John Gilchrist says St. John's, NC State, Georgia Tech, Maryland and Florida are recruiting him.

2/22/01 Burt Beagle's NYC rankings as of 2/18 with record and state ranking in brackets:  

Public -- 1. Robeson (23-1, 2),   2. Grady (22-3, 10),   3.  Boys & Girls (22-3, 8),   4. Lincoln (18-6),  5.  FDA (20-5),  6. Roosevelt (21-3, 19),   7.  Cardozo (19-6),  8. Curtis (22-3),   9. Campus Magnet (19-4),  10.  Park West (19-3).

Private -- 1. All Hallows (20-3, 5),  2. St Raymond (14-9, 7),  3. CTK (16-8, 13),   4.  Rice (13-10, 17),   5. Xaverian (18-6, 18),   6. Molloy (16-8),  7. Holy Cross (17-7),   8.  Poly Prep (19-3),  9. Loughlin (16-8),   10.  St Peter (21-1).

Others in the state's Class A top 15:  Schenectady (20-0, 1),  St Mary (20-2, 3), Poughkeepsie (17-2, 6),  White Plains (19-1, 9), St Dominic (15-6, 14),  Mount Vernon (15-6, 12) and  Brentwood (15-3, 20).

NYS Class B includes  Amityville (17-1, 1),  Ben Banniker (21-3, 4),   Horace Greeley (20-1, 5),  JFK Somers (18-2, 7),  Peekskill (18-3, 16),  Nyack (18-2, 17) and Bx. Science (22-2, 18).

NYS Class C has Buffalo Traditional (18-2, 1),  Poly Prep (19-3, 3),  Regis (21-2, 5) and Dobbs Ferry (16-3, 7).

NYS Class D lists Hamilton (19-1, 1), Greenport (17-1, 2),  Blind Brook (18-1, 4),  Haldane (17-3, 7)  and Tuckahoe (16-3, 8).

2/22/01 Coach Kevin Pigott:  'CHSAA "B" Lower Level Playoffs -- On Friday, there are two lower level "B"  championship games at Fordham Prep. At 6:00 PM, Xavier battles St. John's Prep for the Frosh Championship and following that game, St. Edmund's against St. Joseph By-the- Sea for the JV Championship.'  Web note:  More CHSAA playoff details on the CHSAA 2001 page.

2/22/01 NJO:  Lawrenceville wins prep A title, 82-74.  Coach Ron Kane, Lawrenceville savor Prep 'A' crown.

2/22/01 The Apple's Best High School Ballaz:  St. Raymond  56 vs. St. Anthony (NJ) 55.

2/22/01  Daily News:  Julius Hodge Lifts St. Raymond's.

2/22/01 The Trentonian:  Lawrenceville claims Independent Class A state championship.

2/22/01 Nathan Blue:  'IS8 Playoff Updates -- In a wild Junior Division Playoff Game Tuesday which featured Ajax (Gauchos) vs Brooklyn's Rise Above. It was a game featuring Yadda Gaines, Ronald Ramon, and Shahee Martin on the same Ajax team. And they lost! It was a crazy game from what I heard. But in the end Rise Above came out with the victory.  In today's Midget games: Gauchos beat Ajax (Gauchos) Brooklyn USA beat Abasyssian Riverside beat Manhasset All Stars.'

2/21/01 School Sports:   National Boys’ Basketball Top 25 with Camden @ # 3 and CBA @ # 17.

2/21/01 Rich:  'I have got some predictions for you. CHSAA - St. Raymond's over All Hallows,  PSAL - Robeson over Lincoln,  STATES - St. Mary's over St. Raymond's.  Don't bet on these though. I thought it would be Rice over CTK at the beginning of the season last year.'

2/21/01 Glenn Bynes:  'Attention Coaches and Players -- New Jersey Basketball Association, Inc. is currently seeking boys for its Local Spring AAU Teams. We are also recruiting nation/world wide for our summer programs. In July we offer a camp alternative playing and traveling from New York City to Florida for two weeks, in August we are offering a program to Europe. Some scholarships are available for the summer programs if qualified. Our local AAU program is open to boys in grads 5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12, our Summer programs are open to boys in grades 7-8-9-10-11-12. For more information, please visit our web site at www.newjerseybasketballassoc.com and fill out our contact page and submit or Email us at njbasketball@nac.net.'

2/21/01 HoopUSA - Consensus Top Teams - 2000-2001 - Week of February 17, 2001.

2/21/01  Rivals High: National Top 25 has Camden at # 5 and CBA at # 11 with St Patrick,  St Anthony,  St Augustine,  St Raymond,  All Hallows and Rice closing in.

2/21/01 NJO:  Sophomores have played key role for Seton.

2/21/01  Inquirer:  Ernest Turner scores 25 as Sterling defeats Haddon Heights.

2/20/01 NJO:  Basketball Top 20.  And Boys basketball around the state.

2/20/01 Newsday:  2000-2001 Basketball Playoff Schedule -- Nassau & Suffolk.

2/20/01 Frank:  'Seton Hall Prep and St. Patrick's have accepted invitations to participate in the 2001 Beach Ball Classic in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Seton Hall has all but two players returning from this year's 20-1 rebuilding team.'

2/20/01 Daily News/MSG Top 10.

2/20/01 Daily News:  Postseason Party Nearing in CHSAA.  

2/20/00 USA Today Super 25 boys basketball rankings includes Camden at # 3 and All Hallows at # 22.

2/20/01  Brooklyn Scout:  Big Apple Sports link is http://www.eteamz.com/bigapplesports:  NYC JUCO Update.

2/20/00 BRO: Passaic defeats Bergen Catholic in OT to clinch Division B.

2/19/00 Coach Kevin Pigott:  More CHSAA playoff details on the CHSAA 2001 page.

2/19/01 Coach Kevin Pigott:  'Fordham Prep has a bye until March 3. I am looking for a scrimmage. Is anyone interested? My home phone is 718.597.5278.'

2/19/01 Coach Kevin Pigott:  'New York State Catholic "A" Championship -- It is an official now. Last week the Diocese of Rockville Centre voted down the appeals by both St. Mary's and St. Dominic's to remain as "B" teams. One of them will meet the winner of New York City on March 18 at Fordham University for the state of New York Catholic "A" championship.'

2/19/01  Carl B. Clark:  'Congratulations to Coach Warren Fuller of The Wyandanch Runnin'Lady Warrior Girls Basketball team for recently recording his 400 th victory, the First Female Coach ever on Long Island. Warren's record is  now (402-121). The Warrriors are 18-0 this season.'

2/19/01  Frank:  'Seton Hall Prep's Jamar Nutter has been released from the hospital after suffering a concusion in the team's semi-final ECT win over Weequahic. Nutter was grabbed around the neck from behind on a dunk attempt and hit his head on the backboard. Referee Gil Bragg immediately called a flagrant foul. Many observers thought the Weequahic player should have been ejected from the game as well. Nutter later fainted in the parking lot. Jamar is day to day and is not expected to see action tomorrow vs. Morris Knolls or Thursday at West Morris. It is too early to look ahead to Saturday's ECT final at 2:45 with 22-1 Shabazz.'

2/19/01  Nathan Blue's Real Scout Hoop Summary -- Blair Academy's season is over.

2/19/01  National Prep Basketball Poll - Week 13.

2/19/01  InJersey:  No. 3 St. Anthony downs Holmdel.

2/19/01  BRO:  League races going down to the wire.

2/19/01 NJO:  St. Patrick's beaten by Mass. foe, 54-41.

2/19/01 Newsday: The Fabulous Freshmen -- Ryan Hodgson, Ryan Freely, Steve Harney, Matt Hahn and Kevin Spann II.

2/19/01 Newsday:  'St. Dominic 81, LaSalle (N.Y.) 55: Anthony Lopiano and Mike Grinnon each had 15 points in the first half to lead St. Dominic to a non-league win. Lopiano made 6-of-7 three-pointers, including four consecutive to open the game for St. Dominic, and added seven assists, while Grinnon added nine rebounds. Brian Houlihan had 10 points and 11 rebounds and Tim Doyle had eight assists and nine rebounds for St. Dominic (16-6). Eric Sterling had 21 points for LaSalle.'

2/19/01  bonfire12@webtv.net:  'Rice vs FDA -- I feel like judge Mills Lane when I say "Lets Get It On". Just as the Yankees vs Mets or Knick vs Nets , this game would have some of the same excitement. It would create a good and friendly rivalry between these two Harlem schools. Perhaps Rice is afraid to play FDA. After watching quite a few of FDA's games this season, I think that they would certainly give Rice one heck of a game. Hopefully, Mo Hicks will see the light and accept the challenge...'

2/19/01  The Apple's Best High School Ballaz -- Rice vs. St. Raymond.

2/18/01 Frank with more semifinal details on the ECT, 2001 page.

2/18/01 Two Biddie game summaries on the Pro Style 2K 1, Winter League Basketball page.

2/18/01 Two more Biddie game summaries on the IS8 Winter 2001 page.

2/18/01 Russ Blake @ Insiders Report:  Playing without 6-9 big man Simplice Njoya, the Masters School featured a balanced attack in an 85-68 victory over Hamden Hall H.S. of Connecticut.

2/18/01 Rich G:  'The decision by New York's Section One to seed teams solely on the basis of season records has resulted in an unfortunate situation in Class A. Mount Vernon and Poughkeepsie, who faced off in the Class A finals last year and were expected to make it to the County Center this year, will instead play each other in the quarterfinals on 2/23. Burt Beagle has Mount Vernon ranked #3 in Section One's Class A (behind White Plains and Poughkeepsie), but the Knights were seeded sixth in the tournament because they had six losses during the regular season. Section One apparently paid no attention to strength of schedule when seeding teams, so in effect Mount Vernon has been punished for playing a tough non-conference schedule. And Poughkeepsie is getting the short end of the stick, as well -- instead of playing a real #6 seed in the quarterfinals, the Pioneers (the only team to beat White Plains this year) have to get past the defending champions just to make it to the County Center.

Anyway, here are the matchups for the quarterfinals on 2/23 in Class A and Class B: Class A: Mahopac at White Plains; Gorton at Ramapo; Mount Vernon at Poughkeepsie; New Rochelle at Spring Valley.     Class B: Fox Lane at Horace Greeley; Albertus Magnus at Peekskill; Nanuet at Nyack; Sleepy Hollow at JFK (Somers).

Speaking of Poughkeepsie, a milestone was reached on Friday when the girls basketball team at Our Lady of Lourdes won their 20th game of the season, marking the 16th consecutive year in which the Warriors have won at least 20 games. They appear be a cinch to win the Section One Class B title.'

2/18/01 Steve:  'The Long Island Roadrunners 15Us will live up to their name this spring and summer as they will be truly running the roads across the country. Here are just a few of the prestigious tournaments they already have scheduled: MARCH - the Tim Thomas Tournament in NJ; APRIL - the Wayne Simone Tournament in Conn.; MAY - the Spiece Tournament in Indiana, the Northeast Hoops Tournament in Albany, the Sharpshooter Tournament in NJ and the Gym Rat Tournament at SUNY Albany; JUNE - the Charlie Weber at Penn State and the Northeast Hoops Tournament in upstate NY; JULY - the team will be attending the Pitt III session at Five Star Camp in Pittsburg, and a national tournament out west. As usual, wish us luck!'

2/18/01 JBDingle:  'The top two seeds in the tournament distinguished themselves as the best two teams in the county with convincing wins tonight.'  More on the BCT 2001 page.

2/17/01 auto80417:  'Molloy  JV beat St. Frances Prep to clinch the division title. The Stanners only 2 division losses were to Christ The King and Bishop Loughlin. King and Loughlin play for 2nd seed on Tuesday at Holy Cross.'

2/17/01 Bayshore with semifinal results on the ECT, 2001 page.

2/17/01 CLJSchneider:  'Without a doubt, the best school in the state this year is St. Mary's. Four of their five starters received McDonald's All America nominee status. They play uptempo, team ball- very unselfish players. They have size, speed, and all 5 starters can shoot the rock with the best of them. They also have one of the best coaches in the state- Tim Cluess. Cluess will be on the sideline of a Division I school within the next 5-7 years. They also have some serious motivation- Coach Cluess' 2 year old son was recently diagnosed with leukemia and the players have dedicated the season to little TJ Cluess. "A" class, "B" class..it doesn't matter- this team is on a mission. They beat St. Doms by 25, Boys & Girls by 15, Lincoln by 30 , and went 4-0 in the Vegas Shootout. If you haven't noticed this team yet, you will. Rock on Gaels...'  Web note:  NY State Sportswriters Association Class A rankings through 2/11 list Schenectady,  Robeson, St.Mary,  Niagra Falls and All Hallows as the state's top five teams.

2/17/01 BERASM:  'I would like to see game between Rice and Frederick Douglass Academy take place sometime in the near future to determine who is the better team in Harlem. FDA has tried to schedule them but they do not respond. Would u like to see this happen?'

2/17/00 Rich:  'Senior Day Celebration at St. Raymond's -- Seniors Chris McRae and Julius Hodge led St. Raymond's to a Senior Day victory over Rice HS 77-58. St. Ray's led 38-25 late in the second quarter before Rice made an impressive 20-4 run to take a 45-42 lead in the third quarter. However, 14 second half points by McRae and 9 fourth quarter points by Hodge guaranteed a Ravens' win.  Based on the talent at St. Ray's and All Hallows, the CHSAA A Champion will likely be a Bronx/Manhattan team for the sixth consecutive year.  Boxscore:  St. Ray's Chris McRae 23, Julius Hodge 19, Alan Ray 13, Louie McCroskey 8, Daon Merritt 6, Tariq Atkins 4, Anthony Epps 2 and Andrew Jarvis 2.   Rice  Christian Brown 15, Jason Wingate 12, Russell Robinson 10, Keydren Clark 9, Sagari Alleyne 4, Arturo DuBois 4, and Kenny Eusey 3.

St. Ray's B defeated Holy Cross B for the city championship. Rice JV defeated St. Ray's JV by six, 72-66.'

2/17/00 Pdiddy:  'Loughlin and Christ The King will play a tiebreaker to determine first place in the Chsaa B/Q, JV. The game will be played Tuesday, 6:45 pm at Holy Cross HS.'

2/17/00 Coach Kevin Pigott:  'CHSAA "B" Final Standings and Playoffs on the CHSAA 2001 page.

2/17/01 The IS8 playoff pairings on the IS8 Winter 2001 page.

2/17/01  Today was Rockland PAL day at Pro Style, but the Each1Teach1 juniors easily won 71 - 61 behind Robin Grant (17),  Wayne Gibbons (12) and Lavon Hickman (10).  Rasheed Shah had a game high 27 for Rockland and he kept playing hard to the very end. Tomorrow's 8 game schedule includes four biddie, two midget and two senior games.  More on the Pro Style 2K 1, Winter League Basketball page.

2/17/00 PKATTY:  'Final Call for Long Island Lightning AAU Basketball tryouts for 17 & Under (11th Grade), to be held Monday, February 19, 2001, at 2:00 P.M. at the Island Garden, 45 Cherry Valley Avenue in West Hempstead, New York 516 292 4956. Lightning has produced over 40 players currently playing, or recruited to play college basketball at Divisions I, II, and III. Such Division I universities include Maryland, Hofstra, Villanova, Samford, Iona, Quinnipiac, Holy Cross, Columbia, Boston University, William & Mary, New Hampshire, Bucknell and Marist. This team will play in high profile AAU tournaments throughout the east coast from late March through October.'

2/17/00 Coach Kevin Pigott:  'The CHSAA "C" Division ended this way; 1) Regis (14-0), 2) Cathedral (11-3), 3) Monsignor Scanlan (10-4), 4) Blessed Sacrament (7-7), 5) St. Agnes (7-7,) 6) Salesian (5-9), 7) Sacred Heart (2-12), and 8) St. Helena's (0-14).  Regis gets a bye in the first round and St Joseph's By-the-Sea represents Staten Island. Playoffs start February 25 at Sacred Heart in Yonkers. The first game starts at noon and is St. Joseph's By-the-Sea against Blesed Sacrament. At 1:45, Cathedral plays Salsian. Finally at 3:15, Scanlan plays St. Agnes. Semifianals are at Mount St. Michael on March 3 and the finals are at Iona College on March 9.  The "C" playoffs tend to have some interesting matchups and I believe that you will seen some very well-played games in these playoffs.'

2/17/00 Russ Blake @ Insiders Report: Amityville Surge Whacks Marist.

2/17/00 Newsday:  Amityville,  St Dominic and St Mary get Friday night wins on the Newsday February, 2001 Game Summaries page.

2/17/00  NJ Hoops:  Amityville beats Marist.

2/17/00  BRO:  Kennedy's role reversal -- Paterson Kennedy, defending Passaic County boys basketball champion.  And Bergen County boys basketball tournament semifinals -- Bragging rights at stake.

County tournament matchups -- Englewood vs. Bergen Catholic and Don Bosco Prep vs. Teaneck.

2/17/00  NJO: ECT semis: Shabazz faces East Side; Seton Prep clashes with Weequahic.

Union County Tournament -- Roselle Catholic beats Union, 60-57; St. Patrick's wins.

2/17/00 Peter Abraham, The Journal News:  Ben Gordon played his last home game at Mount Vernon yesterday.

2/16/01 PrepStars:  Michael Kruse --  Bits And Pieces From The Road -- south Jersey and NYC.

2/16/01 Richard Gallagher:  'The Section One preliminary games were held Thursday night so tonight's first round matchups are set: Class A: Carmel at White Plains; Scarsdale at Mahopac; Yorktown at Ramapo; Suffern at Poughkeepsie; Mamaroneck at Mount Vernon; Walter Panas at New Rochelle; John Jay (East Fishkill) at Spring Valley

Class B: John Jay (Cross River) at Horace Greeley; Pelham at Fox Lane; Pearl River at Albertus Magnus; Hendrick Hudson at Peekskill; Byram Hills at Nyack; Ardsley at Nanuet; Lakeland at Sleepy Hollow; Beacon at JFK (Somers)

There are only 7 games listed for Class A because the game between #12 Gorton and #5 Arlington was advanced to Thursday night (Arlington has no classes today so they requested the change). Gorton won, 71-63, and advances to the quarter-finals.'

Web note:  from Steve Grandin on 4/25/98 - 'The geographic regions in New York are called sections and, although most New York Cityers may not know it, they are more accurately described as (1) Lower Hudson Valley, (2) Capital District, (3) Central New York, (4) Southern Tier, (5) Genesee Valley, (6) Western New York, (7) Adirondacks, (8) Nassau County, (9) Catskills, (10) St. Lawrence Valley, (11) Suffolk County and (no number) NYC.'

2/16/01 Daily News:  Devon Ray's Hot 2nd Half Pulls Magnet to Win --   25 after break beat Erasmus.

2/16/00 Peter Abraham, The Journal News on Donnie McGrath.

2/16/00 FastBreak Recruiting:  Jason Fraser.

2/16/01  New York Post  Bad Grades? Good Going!

2/16/00  NJ Hoops: Shawnee provided Head Coach Joe Kessler with his 300th career win in an 46 - 44 victory over Eastern at Eastern.

2/16/01 Kboogie:  ' # 1 ranked Robeson crushed # 32 ranked New Dorp in 1st round action Robeson showed the fire is still burning inside and they have what it takes to win the city championship. Anthony Williams led Robeson with 26 points Kenny Adeleke and Lovell Nimmons combined for 30 points 18 blocks and 25 boards 6"3 Jr Guard Keith Willis chipped in with 13 points.Next Robeson will face Midwood at Hunter College.'

2/15/01 Coach Will Stasiuk:  'Here are the results of today's 1st round PSAL Boys 'A' League games: # 8 Campus Magnet edges # 25 Erasmus 64 to 58..... # 9 Cardozo holds off # 24 Telecommunications 54 to 45... # 1 Robeson destroys # 32 New Dorp 85 to 49..... and in a barnburner # 16 Midwood defeats # 17 Bryant 67 to 65.... For more info & times, locations and matchups of A and B playoffs, see www.psalhoops.com.'

2/15/01  NJO:  Bernoskie Games feature St. Patrick vs.Winchendon this Sunday.

2/15/01 Burt Beagle's NYC rankings as of 2/11 with record and state ranking in brackets:  

Public -- 1. Robeson (22-1, 2),   2. Grady (21-3, 10),   3.  Boys & Girls (21-3, 8),   4. Roosevelt (20-3, 20),   5. Lincoln (17-6),  6.  FDA (18-4),  7.  Cardozo (18-4),  8. Curtis (21-2),   9. Campus Magnet (18-4),  10.  Park West (18-2).

Private -- 1. All Hallows (16-3, 5),  2. St Raymond (12-9, 7),  3. CTK (13-8),   4. Holy Cross (15-4, 15),  5. Rice (12-9, 19),   6. Xaverian (16-6, 20),   7.  Molloy (14-7),   8.  Poly Prep (16-3),  9. Loughlin (15-8),   10.  St Peter (20-1).

Others in the state's Class A top 15:  Schenectady (19-0, 1),  St Mary (18-2, 3), Poughkeepsie (16-2, 6),  White Plains (16-1, 9), St Dominic (13-5, 12),  Mount Vernon (14-6, 14) and  Brentwood (13-2, 18).

NYS Class B includes  Amityville (14-1, 1),  Ben Banniker (21-3, 5),   JFK Somers (17-2, 7),  Nyack (18-2, 17) and Bx. Science (22-2, 18).

NYS Class C has Buffalo Traditional (16-2, 1),  Poly Prep (16-3, 3),  Regis (19-2, 5) and Dobbs Ferry (16-3, 7).

NYS Class D lists Hamilton (19-1, 1), Greenport (15-1, 2) and Tuckahoe (16-3, 10).

2/15/01 100 Hoops:  Prime Time Underclass Report.

2/15/01 Insiders Report:  Eye On Ben Gordon.

2/15/01 BRO:  Devils, Nets host NJSIAA finals

2/15/01 Bonfire:  'I would like to see the players globe hopping to the library or to study hall. Today, (Valentines Day) I watched a high school coach, at 7pm, after practice for his varsity team, sit down with a young man (6th grade) and tutor him and this kid doesn,t even play basketball. He said he knew his wife was gonna be upset, but if a kid wanted to learn then he is there for them. We need more of this and less AAU coaches steering and influencing kids as to where to go to school and what coach to play for.'

2/15/01 RichG:   'Here are the Class A and Class B seedings for the New York Section One playoffs, as published in The Poughkeepsie Journal on 2/14/01:  Class A -- 1. White Plains, 2. Spring Valley, 3. Poughkeepsie, 4. Ramapo, 5. Arlington, 6. Mount Vernon, 7. New Rochelle, 8. Mahopac, 9. Scarsdale, 10. Walter Panas, 11. Mamaroneck,  12. Croton, 13. Yorktown, 14. Suffern, 15. Lincoln, 16. Carmel, 17. Roy C. Ketcham, 18. John Jay (East Fishkill), 19. Ossining, 20. Franklin D. Roosevelt. The seedings appear to have been determined solely on the basis of team records, which explains the #6 seed for Mount Vernon.

Class B -- 1. Horace Greeley,  2. JFK (Somers),  3. Nyack,  4. Peekskill,  5. Albertus Magnus,  6. Nanuet,  7. Sleepy Hollow,  8. Fox Lane,  9. Pelham,  10. Lakeland,  11. Ardsley,  12. Pearl River,  13. Hen Hud,  14. Beacon,  15. Our Lady of Lourdes,  16. John Jay (Cross River),  17. Port Chester,  18. Tappan Zee,  19. Byram Hills,  20. Rye,  21. Harrison,  22. Eastchester,  23. Brewster.  The low seeds will play preliminary games on February 15 and the high seeds go into action on Friday, February 16. The quarterfinals are scheduled for February 23 at the home courts of the higher seeds. The semi-finals and finals will be held at the County Center in White Plains beginning on March 1. Again, it appears that the only criterion for the seedings in Class B was each team's record. There's no other explanation for Nyack (18-2) being seeded higher than Peekskill (17-3), and JFK (Somers) almost certainly would have been seeded #1 had they not played and lost to Rice early in the season. The good news is that Peekskill and JFK are in opposite brackets, which sets up the possibility of a third meeting between the two teams, who played two overtime games during the regular season.'

2/14/01 Coach Pigott:  'CHSAA "B" Standings -- The North plays 15 league games and the South plays 14 league games. Everyone plays the teams in their division twice and plays the teams in the other division once. There are six teams in the North and five in the South. As of today, February 14, here are the standings. In the North Division, Iona Prep, Fordham Prep, and Cardinal Hayes are tied for first with 9-5 records. Iona plays its final game at Archbishop Stepinac Friday night. Hayes travels to Fordham Friday afternoon to play both teams' last game. Cardinal Spellman is 7-6. They host Bishop Ford tomorrow and close at home against Mount St. Michael on Saturday. Mount is 7-7 with Spellman left. Stepinac (2-12) has Iona left.

St. Edmund's (12-2), Xavier (8-6), and Nazareth (6-8) have finished their seasons. Ford is 5-7 with Spellman and St. John's Prep left. St. John's (1-12) has Ford left. The seedings for the tournament should be out Friday night. Moore Catholic and Monsignor Farrell are in the tournament also.'

2/14/01 RivalsHigh:  National Top 25 lists Camden @ # 5 and CBA @ # 17.

2/14/01 School Sports:  National Boys’ Basketball Top 25 includes Camden at # 3 and CBA at # 17.  

2/14/01 HoopUSA - Consensus Top Teams - 2000-2001 - Week of February 10, 2001.

2/14/01 Winston@GameBallMagazine:  'Brooklyn/Queens CHSAA, Varsity Basketball Playoff Schedule.  Diocesan Tournament -- Game 1 Sun 2/25 2 vs 7 1:00, Game 2 Sun 2/25 3 vs 6 3:00,  Game 3 Sun 2/25 4 vs 5 5:00,  Game 4 Tues 2/27 winner 2/7 vs winner 3/6 6:00,  Game 5 Tues 2/27 #1 vs winner 4/5 7:45,  Game 6 Fri 3/2 Diocesan Championship 7:30.  All games will be played at St. Francis College in Brooklyn.

CHSAA Intersectional Playoff Schedule -- 1st Round Sun 3/4 TBA Manhattan College:  1/4 Finals Wed 3/7 TBA Manhattan College,  1/4 Finals Thurs 3/8 TBA Manhattan College,  Semi-Finals Sun 3/11 2:00 Fordham University,  Semi-Finals Sun 3/11 4:00 Fordham University,  City Championship Wed 3/14 7:00 Fordham University.'

2/14/01 RichG:  'The NY State tournament is being held in Glens Falls on March 16, 17 and 18, and presumably the Federation championship games will be a week later. Some information is available at the New York State Basketball Tournament website, http://www.nysbasketball.com/home.html but unfortunately the website provides no information whatsoever about the Sectionals or the Catholic and private school playoffs.'

2/14/01 Brooklyn Scout: NYC JUCO Update from  Big Apple Sports  -- their links is http://www.eteamz.com/bigapplesports.

2/14/01 BRO:   2,000 for John Blackgrove.   And Bergen Catholic stuns Teaneck.   And Lenny Cooke scores 52 in NV/OT victory.

2/14/01 NJO:  Rare reunion: Three Newark teams in ECT semis.

2/14/01 100 Hoops:  Prime Time Seniors.

2/14/01 FastBreak:  FastBreak Top 100.

2/14/01  Daily News: PSAL results.

2/14/01 EDavi11812:  'Today at Loughlin's last home game , it was a regular crowd. Loughlin defeats # 42 ranked in the nation by HoopsUSA, ArchBishop Molloy 63-45. They had lost to the Stanners the first time the met. The Lions started the game with a lot of fire. They went on a 11-0 run start in the first quarter. The Stanners were down the whole game. At one point they came back, but Munford stole the ball and passed it to Curtis Sumpter, who dunked on about 3 people. Gustus knew if Wendell Gibson for the Stanners got the ball more often, it would be a hard game for Loughlin. So He doubled him, keeping him away form the ball. John Jammot had 12 points and Tom Harrison finished with 11 points for the Stanners. Curtis Sumpter had 13 points and 9 rebounds, Timeke Mitchell with 14 points and 11 boards, and Ted Munford with 19 points and 8 assists for the Lions.'

2/13/01 EM krispy:  'Christ The King defeated Holy Cross at Holy Cross 64-53. High scorers were Rob Barrett with 23 and Japhet McNeil with 10 points and 8 assists. With this win and a Molloy loss CK clinches Brooklyn/Queens championship.'

2/13/01 Newsday: 'Loughlin 63, Molloy 45  -- Teddy Munford scored 19 points and Rondell Watts added 11 points for Bishop Loughlin (16-8, 7-5 CHSAA Brooklyn/Queens). Molloy was led by Wendell Gibson with 10 points.'

2/13/01 Coach Will Stasiuk:  'In PSAL 'A' League first round action today: # 21 Newtown upsets # 12 JFK 54 to 52, the defending champs.....# 4 Lincoln cruises over Westinghouse 93 to 56.... # 13 Hillcrest comes from 14 behind to defeat # 20 Sheepshead Bay 67 to 60.....# 5 Park West beats # 28 Jamaica 57 to 49........In First Round PSAL B action: Grand St. Campus takes a road win over Fashion 63 to 52..... John Adams handles Environmental Science 76 to 44....John Bowne beats Beacon 61 to 53.....Art & Design finishes off Chelsea 66 to 48....and in the closest game of the day Hunter tips Monroe 53 to 51............I will have the PSAL B seeding available tomorrow evening........For more info and the remaining 'A' and 'B' league schedules, see www.psalhoops.com.'

2/13/01 Fox Sports:  FAB 50 includes # 8 Camden,  # 13 CBA,  # 24 Robeson,  # 43 Mt Vernon,  # 48 All Hallows and # 49 St Anthony.

2/13/01 School Sports:  McDonald’s All-American Finalists.

2/13/01 NJO:  H.S. Boys Basketball Top 20.

2/13/01  Frank: 'Its nice to see three of the four finalists in the Essex County Tournament are Newark public high schools, East Side, Weequahic, and Shabazz.'  More on the ECT, 2001 page.

2/13/01 Daily News/MSG Top 10.   And PSAL Boys Playoff Results.

2/13/01  USA Today Super 25 boys basketball rankings -- latest rankings have Camden at # 3 and All Hallows at # 24.

2/13/01 LFBALL:  'When will kids like Tim Begley get the respect they deserve? This kid should have been recruited by Rutgers months ago. Why in heavens name does Bannon wait until the last minute? Tim should tell the RU staff, who for the most part are missing in action on and off the court, to take the ship and shove it. He should go to one of the other fine schools now recruiting him. This recruitment effort is common in Big East circles. Once one school recruits a kid, here comes the others. If he did not receive other offers, he would not get one from RU. I would love to see Tim play at Northwestern, Stanford, Florida, etc. Heck, Seton Hall could also use him. I am just happy he is now getting the respect he deserves. If anyone gets a chance to meet the CBA players, you would be very impressed with them. They are great kids on and off the court. Always exhibiting sportsmanship, etc. Now if the coaches could integrate the team, they would really be great! But thats another story.'

2/12/01  NJO:  St. Anthony overtakes upstart St. Dominic.

2/12/01  Coach Will Stasiuk: 'In PSAL 'A' League first round action today: # 2 Grady 84 - # 31 Beach Channel 37.... # 15 Canarsie 86 - # 18 New Utrecht 66... #10 Curtis 95 - # 23 MLK 76.... and in the game of the day # 7 Roosevelt 58 - # 26 Tottenville 56. For more info and the remaining 'A' and 'B' league schedules, see www.psalhoops.com.'

2/12/01  National Prep Basketball Poll - Week 12. By Jamie DeMoney and Jeremy Plowman.

2/12/01  Glenn Bynes:  'Sloane Baptist a walk-on freshman at Rutgers scored 2 points in a victory over Pittsburgh on yesterday for the Scarlet Knights. Sloane played forward for the NJ Wildcats AAU basketball team last spring. Sloane is also an excellent student in the classroom who graduated early from Columbia HS in Maplewood, NJ. Tim Morgan, the GM of the NJ Wildcats is excited that the NJ Wildcats AAU basketball program is not only playing games in the Spring & Summer, but their players are performing well and excelling. Stay tuned for other Wildcat Players who are making headlines as the NJ High School County and State tournaments begin.  Sean Lynch Junior/ Delaware Valley,  Ryan Carey Senior/ Summit HS,  Dave Pearson Junior/ Matawan HS,  Kevin Burns Senior/ St. Mary's SA,  Shahied Williams Sophomore/ North Brunswick HS,  Aaron Carter Freshman/ North Brunswick HS,  Everett Morgan Sophomore/ St. Patrick's,  Eric Bynes Sophomore/ New Brunswick,  Doug Beck Sophomore/ Somerville,  Todd Dorsey Junior/ Montgomery,  Kerry Foderingham Somerville HS,  Jamaal Jenkins Sophomore/ EBVT,  Adam Lamarca Delaware Valley,  Venex Nicholas Columbia HS,  Pat Daveney St. Augustine's,  Nick Shaw South Amboy,  Sean Thompson North Brunswick,  Jason Lahara Somerville HS,  Chaise Foy Montgomery HS.'

2/12/01 Daily News:  Full Nelson Helps CK Hold on For Win.  Plus St. Anthony, Molloy and Rice victories.

2/12/01 Inquirer: South Jersey Boys' Basketball Top 10.

2/12/01 All Star Report: Primetown Shootout.

2/12/01 100 Hoops:  More From Trenton.

2/12/01 NJ Hoops:  St. Anthony's ... beat St. Dominic's of Long Island 53 - 38.  

2/12/01 JBDingle:  The quest for the Bergen County Championships whittled down to four and it's pretty much the four teams that everybody expected - Teaneck, Bergen Catholic, Don Bosco Prep, and Englewood.

2/12/01 BRO  Bergen Catholic does it with 'D'.   Don Bosco Prep prevails inside.   Englewood strikes early in win.   Teaneck fends off River Dell's run.

2/12/01 The Apple's Best High School Ballaz -- PSAL Predictions.

2/12/01 Poppi6266:  'With the last game of the regular season for Peekskill, they run into Ossining once again. But this time they weren't Simmons's less. Ossining led the game all the way until 2:00 minutes left in regulation, until a hungry Peekskill forced 5 turnovers down the stretch. Peekskill knocked off the Indians 63-61. Rashard Turner led the Red Devils with 20pts and 6'7'' Hilton Armstrong scored 18pts and grabbed 11rebs respectively. Ossining held tuff behind the hot hand of Rushid Simmons who had a game high 34pts. Simmons a scoring machine through the regular season has averaged 27.6pts per. But a solid Peekskill club held Ossining off. The Red Devils end the season 17-3. Peekskill's JV upended Ossining 67-53 to end off their super season with a 18-1 finish. Sophmore Chris Horton had 19pts and 11rebs for the Devils. Horton who has averaged 23.4pts per played solid all year for the Devils. Freshman point guard Devon McCallob scored 20pts and sophmore Eric McDonald contributed 17pts. Horton who will move up to varsity for the sectional tournament, should have an eye kept on him. This kid knows how to put points on the board. So for you teams that run into Peekskill not only have Turner and Armstrong to worry about, but a sesational sophmore in Horton who gives Peekskill that other player needed to make their team complete. Glens Falls watch out for them Devils!'

2/11/01  EM krispy:  'Christ The King defeated New Castle, Pa 56-41 at the Prime Time Shoot out. MVP award was given to Rob Barrett who had 23 points. Peedy Nelson had 21 points and Japhet McNeil had 7 assists.'

2/11/01 Bayshore:   Thoughts from the Primetime Shootout.

2/11/01 100 Hoops:  Camden Remains Undefeated.

2/11/01  South Jersey News:  Dajuan Wagner, Camden come through late for Prime Time victory.

2/11/01 NJ Hoops:  Camden tops St. Ray.

2/11/01 Daily News:  Dajuan Too Much For St. Ray's.

2/11/01  New York Post  Dajuan and Only Prevails.  

2/11/01 LFBALL: 'By now everyone knows the final score and that Camden defeated St Rays at the Prime Time Shootout in Trenton NJ. Over 10,000 people watched this exciting game as the refs (yes I am saying this for all the refs on the site who say refs do not lose games) TOOK THE GAME from a deserving St. Rays. Julius Hodge, Allan Ray, Chris McCray and Daon Merritt were all outstanding as was the game coaching by Gary D and his staff, I was ashamed of being a resident of New Jersey after this game was over. Camden fouled without calls while St. Rays had every little call made. If Camden and St. Rays played 10 times on neutral courts St. Rays would win 9 times. Julius Hodge and Dajuan Wagner (39 points after shooting 35 times at least) went at it. In fact they had to be separated at the end of the game. As St. Rays left the court, Camden fans threw objects at the St. Rays kids, causing an ugly scene. Gary D. would not let who ever recieved MVP for his team to return to the court. An action I really agree with. I felt sick watching this game being taken away from the St. Rays kids. Of course Gary and his staff will say the refs did not lose the game. Thats the political thing to say. Well I am not political. They received a home job to the 10th degree. With 3 fourths of the artena against them, St. Rays was outstanding. They really deserved this win. In an earlier game Rice defeated RJ Renolds HS from NC, which is in the top 10 nationally. Steve Burtt Jr. was outstanding!! So were the other players. I still feel Rice is missing a lot this year, and I do not mean players. They came out sloppy. Some with warmup pants, others without. Jerseys hanging over shorts, etc. Mo Hicks is an excellent x and o guy. I sure wanted them to look more uniformed like the other teams playing. After all, they were representing NYC.'

2/11/01  Frank:  'Shabazz,  Seton Hall Prep, Weequahic and Newark East Side are quarterfinal winners on the winners on the ECT, 2001 page.'

2/10/01 Nathan Blue's Real Scout Hoop Summary -- about this and that.

2/10/01 Frank:  'Zakee Boyd is alive and well at St. Anthony high school and had 11 points last night.'

2/10/01  Playoff schedule and results of first three games on IS8 Winter, 2001 page.

2/10/01 Steve Ellerman, (973) 627-7089  -- 'I have a 7th/8th grade girls team looking to scrimmage on 2/17 or 2/24. We are located in Rockaway Township.'

2/10/01  PKATTY:  'Long Island Lightning AAU Basketball tryouts for 17 & Under (11th Grade) boys will be held on Monday, February 19th, 2001, at 2:00 P.M. at the Island Garden, 45 Cherry Valley Avenue in West Hempstead, N.Y. 516 292 4956. Over 40 Lightning players are currently playing, or have been recruited to play, college basketball at Divisions I, II & III. Such Division I universities include Maryland, Hofstra, Villanova, Samford, Iona, Quinnipiac, Holy Cross, Columbia, Boston University, William & Mary, New Hampshire, Bucknell and Marist. If questions, contact the Island Garden at the above number, or coach Paul Kalker at 631 979 8808.'

2/10/01 Hoopsfan58:  'While the situation on the Island is now definitely bizarre to say the least....You can definitely rectify it for next season. Simple as this....play by the old league rules and send the playoff winner as an A rep....whoever it may be, they did it until the 1990 season if I can remember and then send the runner up to the B's its as fair as you can get I think......anyway, why not make the best of the situation for this year....at least you know you will have the two best teams playing March 4th at Hofstra....while Mary's has beaten Doms 2x this season....the second battle on Mary's home court was a lot more competitive and I can't help but think that when they meet again it will be a classic....one thing I will guarantee is their will be 5,000 strong at that game.....very rare for Long Island.'

2/10/01  Future133:  'Former Newtown PG, Chris Sandy is having an exceptional year. He is leading his West Ark squad to a 17-1 start and they are currently ranked #14 nationally. Chris is currently averaging 17pts, and 9asst per game. He is being recurited by schools such as South Florida. This kid deserves to be recruited by more schools. Chris would be a fine point guard at any MAJOR D1 college. He is a tough kid, who is great on defense, can score and can run an offense extremely well. More D1 schools should start taking an interest in Chris.'

2/10/01 NJ Hoops:  St. Patrick's dropped a tough 43 - 41 contest to Dominguez of California in the feature contest of the night at the Prime Time Shootout.

2/10/01 BRO:  Northern Valley at Old Tappan adding games for Leeny Cooke's benefit.

Josh Robinson, John Blackgrove join select company -- 40+ points in the Bergen Jamboree.

2/10/01 Newsday:  St. Mary's Tops St. Dom.

2/10/01 Rich:  St. Mary's scored a home victory over St. Dominic's, 63-56 tonight before an SRO crowd. St. Mary's maintained the lead throughout the game with a 4 point lead at halftime and a 9 point lead at the end of 3. These teams will meet again on March 4 at Hofstra University. St. Peter's head coach Bob Leckie, Stonehill assistant coach Joe Loughran and Queens College assistant coach Kirk Liddlelow were in attendance.  Boxscore -- St. Mary's - Dwayne Byfield 19, Matt Preston 15, Mamadou Diakate 12, Ken Grant 11, Jared Weir 3, Keith Tilley 2, and Brian Preston 1.  St. Dominic's - Greg Bosl 15, Mike Grinnon 14, Tim Doyle 14, Alex Patsos 9, and Jim Bebry 4.'

2/10/01 djp:  'Well folks, I believe we have just witnessed the creation of a new basketball league on Long Island - let's call it the XNSCHSAA! Looks like the other two teams, St. Mary's and St. Dominic's have just played a whole regular season for nothing. There is no point to playing anymore league games. And what is the point in playing a 'championship' game on March 4th after beating St. Dom's 2X already? The playoff seeding should be head to head, with a championship game only for a tiebreaker. The good 'ole boys over at Chaminade and Kellenberg may think they have done it again. Except I think their desperate plan to send a 'B' team (yea right) will backfire with Holy Trinity winning that tournament and advancing to the 'B' tournament under this week's rules. After all, next week who knows how the tiny minded cretans who run this league will feel. They may just keep changing the rules as many times as they like. Can this get any more bizarre?'

2/10/01 HOOPSLOVE35:  'All Hallows had a 18pt lead before Steve Burtt and Kenny Eusey cut the lead to ten.  But that all Rice could do as Marvin McCullough had 19 pts, Ricky Soliver had 15, Kenneth McMillan 11pts and 10 rebounds to give All Hallows the victory.'.

2/10/01 Daily News:  All Hallows Tops Rice For Division Title.  And CK Stops Molloy, Takes Over First.

2/9/01  EM krispy:  'Christ The King defeated Molloy in Overtime 56-53. high scorer was Rob Barrett with 17. Molloy could have won in regulation but missed two lay up's in a row.  Wendell Gibson did not play.'

2/9/01  Web note:  'High Hoops will be three years old in ten days.  Our visitors' counter will go over 1,000,000 some time this weekend.  We are currently averaging over 10,000 hits per week, more than a half million per year.  This is a free site - AOL provides the disk space and gets the ad banner above.  No other revenue is generated.   And there will not be a prize for the 1,000,000th visitor!  But thanks to all of you.'

2/9/01 Newsday:  Coach Jack Curran Weighing Whether Wendell Gibson Plays.

2/9/01 NJO:  Boys basketball state tournament pairings.

2/9/01 Hoopsfan58: 'Talk about making a bad situation a whole lot worse.....St. Mary's and St.Dominic who were recently switched to class A halfway through their seasons, not necessarily a bad thing considering they have beaten many of the A teams they have played, the questionable thing was the timing. Now their own league has changed the playoff system, Mary's and Doms will play each other in the championship on March 4th. ...technically they could cancel all their remaining games ...after all why risk injury right? The rest of the league will play the tourney without them ....Not a lot of fun for anyone, the semifinals at Hofstra is always such a fun night ....the chance of upsets ....big crowd ....way to go guys tear the league apart why don't you! This is not NYC .....these teams will not always compete with the big boys all the time .....the only fair way would be do it by enrollment ....and from the start of the season ...Also talk about completely taking the air out of what could have been a classic tonight when Doms visited Marys ....once again ....way to go guys!'

2/9/01 100 Hoops:  Trenton is the place to be this weekend as some of the best teams and top players in the country roll into town for the Prime Time Shootout.

2/9/01 BRO:  Teaneck has work cut out.

2/9/01  NJO  Area six relish chance in spotlight of Prime Time Shootout.

2/9/01 Metro Hoops:  Jersey Top Freshmen.  Web note: Be aware -- very slow downloading.

2/9/01 Peter Abraham, The Journal News @ Dobbs Ferry.

2/9/01 Burt Beagle's NYC rankings as of 2/4 with record and state ranking in brackets:  

Public -- 1. Robeson (21-3, 2),   2. Grady (20-3, 10),   3.  Boys & Girls (21-3, 8),   4. Roosevelt (19-3, 20),   5. Cardozo (18-4),  6. Lincoln (17-6),  7.  FDA (18-4),     8. Curtis (20-2),   9. Campus Magnet (18-4),  10.  Park West (17-2).

Private -- 1. All Hallows (15-2, 3),  2. Rice (10-6, 5),  3. St Raymond (11-8, 6),   4.  Holy Cross (15-4, 14),  5.  Molloy (14-5, 15),   6. Xaverian (14-6, 19),   7. CTK (11-8),   8.  Poly Prep (13-3),  9. Loughlin (14-7),   10.  St Peter (19-1).

Others in the state's Class A top 15:  Schenectady (17-0, 1),  Poughkeepsie (15-2, 7),  White Plains (16-1, 9), Mount Vernon (12-5, 12) and Hempstead (12-1, 17),  Brentwood (12-2, 18).

NYS Class B includes St Mary (16-2, 1),  Amityville (12-1, 2)  St Dominic (12-4, 5), Ben Banniker (21-3, 7),   JFK Somers (15-2, 10) and Bx. Science (22-2, 20).

NYS Class C has Buffalo Traditional (14-2, 1),  Poly Prep (13-3, 3),  Regis (17-2, 5) and Dobbs Ferry (14-3, 7).

NYS Class D lists Hamilton (17-1, 1), Greenport (13-1, 2) and Tuckahoe (14-3, 13)

2/9/01 Nathan Blue: 'The Record company that brought you such hot rap artists as Jay Z, Bennie Seigel, Memphis Bleek and many more will be hosting their first ever Team Roc 8 th Grade All Star Classic. Friday Feb 16th at Minsik Gym located on 142 and Lenox Avenue in Manhattan. It will be filled with one of the illest DJ's. And, Duke Tango from 155 th on the Mic. Admission is a single $1 and the gym expects to reach full capacity so please be early.

Team Roc will feature absolutely the best talent in NYC. The first Game will feature The Bronx (Coach Artie Green) vs Brooklyn (Coach Black) starting time is at 5pm. The second Game is at 7pm Manhattan (Coached by Team Roc and The Church) vs Queens (Coach Nathan Blue).

The rosters are set for every borough. Except Queens! If there are any coaches who ave any players who either live in Queens or go to school in Queens. Honestly we are only looking for players 6-3 and above (Or who jump like that!). If you need more info on the event. Also if have a player or you think your that player email me at rsbisthenyc@webtv.net. I will come to watch any player this weekend. This is just an All Star event. Nobody is trying to take or con any kids for AAU purposes.'

2/8/01 Glenn Bynes:  'Hoop Heaven Mini-camp for boys & girls.  February school vacation break.  Boys and girls * Ages 6 & up * Grades 2nd & up.  Skills - Games - Contests - and much more . .  Session #1 -- Monday & Tuesday, February 19 & 20, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm.  Session #2 --  Thursday & Friday, February 22 & 23,  9:00 am - 4:00 pm.  Cost (per session):  * 2 days, full day package $80.00  * 1 full day $45.00  * half day: 9:00 am - 12 noon $30.00/per half day  * half day: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm $30.00/per half day (full day campers bring your own bag lunch).  For more information: tele: (973) 884-4667 fax: (973) 884-4651. Hoop Heaven, LLC   125 Algonquin Parkway  Whippany, NJ 07981.  e-mail: info@hoopheaven.com.'

2/8/01  New York Post:  No Sleep Through Brooklyn -- PSAL seedings.

2/8/01 Galen Smith - Director:  'This week I have a neat feature on Marcus Austin from St. Patricks, and a feature on some of the top freshman in New Jersey. The site name is http://www.metrohoops.com/.

2/8/01 Insiders Report:  Eye On Sean Corrigan.

2/8/01 NJ Hoops:  five of the top 10 Srs. in NJ are playing @ the Prime Time Shootout.

2/7/01 The Apple's Best High School Ballaz: St. Raymond vs. All Hallows.

2/7/01  Pro Style 2K 1, "Winter League Basketball" games are played every weekend through the playoffs and championship in April.

2/7/01  Coach Will Stasiuk:  'Just got back from PSAL seeding meeting. It was well-attended by coaches, referees, PSAL officials observers, the commissioners and members of 4 media outlets.... Here is the order... dates, matchups and locations available at www.psalhoops.com.

1- Robeson 2- Grady 3- Boys & Girls 4- Lincoln 5- Park West 6- FDA 7- Roosevelt 8- Campus Magnet 9- Cardozo 10- Curtis 11- Manhattan Center 12- JFK 13- Hillcrest 14- Van Buren 15- Canarsie 16- Midwood 17- Bryant 18- New Utrecht 19- Clinton 20- Sheepshead Bay 21- Newtown 22- Tilden 23- MLK 24- Telecom 25- Erasmus 26- Tottenville 27- Columbus 28- Jamaica 29- Westinghouse 30- Walton 31- Beach Channel 32- New Dorp.'

2/7/01  HoopsTV.com:  Authentic Jersey -- Prime Time Shootout, Sovereign Bank Arena (Trenton, NJ),  February 8-11, 2001.

2/7/01 PrepStars:  Super Seniors And The NBA.

2/7/01 SchoolSports:  National Boys’ Basketball Top 25 has Camden at # 3, CBA at # 22 and St. Pat dropped from the list.

2/7/01  BRO: Old Tappan subdues Ramapo.

2/7/01  South Jersey News:  Dajuan Wagner is S.J.'s new scoring king.

2/7/01 Inquirer:  Dajuan Wagner's gesture honors Clarence Turner, the ... former head coach of Camden.

2/7/01 InJersey: Bridgewater holds off Plainfield.

2/7/01 Newsday:  St Mary,  Xaverian and Robeson  win on the Newsday February, 2001 Game Summaries page.

2/7/01 Brooklyn Scout:   NYC JUCO Update from Big Apple Sports link is http://www.eteamz.com/bigapplesports.

2/7/01 FastBreak:  HS Top 25 Poll has Camden at # 5 andCBA at # 11. 

2/7/01 Daily News:  'Shamar Green tipped in a miss at the buzzer to give visiting Xaverian a 58-57 win over Molloy yesterday in a battle of CHSAA contenders. With Xaverian trailing by one with seconds left, Chris Taft took an inbounds pass and missed a short turnaround jumper. But Green was there to tip it in, making the Clippers 15-6 overall and 6-4 in league play. Molloy fell to 7-2 in the league.  Lou Karis led the Clippers with 19 points, Taft had 16 points and 13 rebounds and Green had 14 points.'

2/6/01 EDavi11812:  'Loughlin defeats Cross 70-55. #44 Joe Marino with 14 points and Chris Fileti with 9 points for Cross. Ted Munford with 19 points 7 assists, Timeke Mitchell with 21 points 10 rebounds, and 3 assists and Curtis Sumpter with 16 points and 12 rebounds for Loughlin.'

2/6/01  EM krispy:  'Christ the King defeats St.Francis Prep by 11. High scorer was Brian Williams with 27.'

2/6/01 HoopUSA - Consensus Top Teams - 2000-2001 - Week of February 3, 2001

2/6/01  New York Post:  He Has Grade Expectations -  Sean Dantzler has learned his lesson - and lately, his lessons. He just hopes it's not too late.

2/6/01 NJ Hoops:  Prime Time Uncommited.

2/6/01 Daily News/MSG Top 10.

2/6/01 USA Today Super 25 boys basketball rankings with Camden at # 3 and All Hallows as # 22.

2/6/01  InJersey:  Boys basketball state qualifiers, Central & South Jersey.

2/6/01  BRO: Boys basketball state qualifiers.

2/6/01 FastBreak Recruiting:   McDonald's AA News.

2/6/01 Coach Will Stasiuk:  'Here are the results from today's PSAL playoff tiebreaker games: A league: New Dorp defeats Susan Wagner. B League: John Bowne 52- Flushing 44, Clara Barton 47 - Leon Goldstein 33 & Evander defeats Bronx Leadership. For complete schedules of the upcoming playoffs, go to www.psalhoops.com.'

2/5/01  BRO: Bergen Catholic stands tall in win.

2/5/01  NJ Hoops:  St. Anthony's dropped an overtime decision to Ben Franklin of Philadelphia 58 - 57.

2/5/01 South Jersey News: St. Augustine posts Battle win over Rice.  

2/5/01  Insiders Report:  Mike Grinnon On Crutches.

2/5/01  National Prep Basketball Poll - Week 11. By Jamie DeMoney and Jeremy Plowman.

2/5/01 Nathan Blue:  'I went to watch the ProStyles (Not UDC) tournament at Bronx Regional HS. The first game I caught. Dominic Lewis' squad beat the Mustangs by about 15pts. The second game Riverside Church (Juniors) beat The Brooklyn Rams, who just weren't ready to go to church on this Sunday.

The third game was La Paco (I'm guessing) vs Kips Bay. Kips Bay was coached by Artie Green. His two star players played great. Sr. Leon Fuller 6-8 PF formerly of All Hallows and Jr. Curtis Stinson 6-2 PG Bronx Regional HS.  Both of these kids have grown under coach Green and even though they aren't currently playing High School Basketball are in my mind a lock to be major college impact players one day.

I talked to Stinson and he seemed to have his head on straight. He just caught a little bad luck with the whole situation at Our Savior of Lutheran. I didn't wait to see Stinson play the whole game. At the half he had about 11pts 6 assists and 5 rebs 2 steals. But my outlook on the ProStyles tournament is that it's live and it looks to be one of many events this upcoming group of guys will run.'

2/4/01  Frank:   ECT First Round results and quarterfinal pairings.

2/4/01 Sunday morning at IS8 -- Long Island Lightning, Elmont Panther and Riverside Church win.  Details on IS8 Winter, 2001 page.

2/4/01  Daily News:  Shagari Alleyne Soars to New Heights. Seven-footer dunks foe with 20.  

2/4/01  New York City Power, Rice Crushes Chester, Pa Clippers.

2/4/01  Lehigh Valley News:  The Parkland Trojans fall behind early but stage a comeback before losing to Christ the King, 60-51.

2/4/01 NJ Hoops:  St. Patrick's continued their recent troubles with a 72 - 57 loss to nationally ranked Germantown Academy in Pennsylvania.

2/4/01 InJersey: Gannett N.J. top 20 poll with records through Wednesday.

And Show time for Taquan Dean.

2/4/01 Newsday:  PSAL Basketball Playoffs Not Set Yet.

St Dominics routs FDA on the Newsday February, 2001 Game Summaries page.

2/4/01 Nathan Blue:  'Blue Ribbon -- Mark Felder 6'3 Roosevelt HS is a Senior, Anthony Laylor 6-7 Clinton HS is a Senor headed to George Washington University.'

2/3/01  Blue Ribbon lists 54 sophomores from this region, 24 from New Jersey, 34 from New York on the class of 2003 page.

2/3/01  Remington Rebels team profile on the AAU team page.

2/3/01  Kevin Boyle Basketball Camp.

2/3/01 Saturday morning at IS8 -- Wolfpack's biddies, Brooklyn USA's biddies and midgets win.  Details on IS8 Winter, 2001 page.

2/3/01 The Apple's Best High School Ballaz -- Lincoln vs. St. Raymond.

2/3/01 Miguel Rodriguez:  'St.Raymonds led by Julius Hodge (35pts 16rebs) defeated a pesky Lincoln team by 11 (77-66). St.Rays was up by as many as 14 in the first half before #10 John Quintana (29 pts on 10-29 shooting) kept the Railsplitters in the game and they eventually went into the half up 5 points. In the second half Sebastain Telfair got over his first half jitters and went to the hole at will with very impressive finishes which kept Lincoln in the game. But Coach DeCesare with Chris McRae in foul trouble for most of the game went into a triangle and 2 and he put Julius Hodge on Quintana which virtually eliminated his scoring in the second half due to a 5 or 6 inch height advantage. He might have had 4 points in the second half if that. Louie McClosky played an excellent game for the Ravens on the boards. Allan Ray is coming into his own as the next good one to go major D1. Well you have to if you wear the (#14 Terrence Rencher-Texas class of 91').  Sebastain Telfair is the real deal. Lincoln is my bet on winning the PSAL but their lack of size will be a problem. They have great guard play and are very stingy on defense. The Ravens next play in a rematch All Hallows on Tuesday before they get it on vs Camden on Saturday.'

2/3/01 BRO  Bergen County Tournament & Passaic County Tournament.

2/3/01  Insiders Report:  Brian Preston Update.

2/3/01 Newsday: 'Anthony Lopiano hit his only basket of the game with 45 seconds left in overtime to give St. Dominic a 64-60 lead en route to the 66-63 win over Chaminade in CHSAA. Jim Bebry's layup with 25 seconds left in regulation tied the score at 56. Bebry had 16 points and 12 rebounds, and Mike Grinnon added 20 points and six steals. Tim Doyle led St. Dominic (7-1) with 21 points. Steve Arena led Chaminade (4-4) with 25 points.'

2/3/01 EM krispy:  'CK beat Loughlin by 7 but it was really a bigger win.'

Pdiddy:  'Christ the King defeated Bishop Loughlin 72-65. Rob Barrett had 19 for CTK while Peedy Nelson added 14. Loughlin was lead by Curtis Sumpter with 24 points. Teddy Munford and Timeke Mitchell added 13 and 10 respectively for Loughlin.'

2/3/01  Daily News:  Holy Cross Stuns Molloy; CK Tops Loughlin    

2/3/01 BERASM:  'FDA beat LI Lutheran 57 to 33, behind the efforts of Samuel Edwards, 19pts., 10 reb.,who controlled the interior and Tahan Engram who did an excellent job holding Arthur Onoura, LI Lutheran's best player to 10pts.'

2/3/01 Coach Will Stasiuk:  ' PSAL Playoff Schedules & Results - 2001. All PSAL tiebreaker games (4 of em' on Monday 2/5), the B league outbracket (2/8) and 1st Round (2/13 & 2/14) matchups. A league matchups will be available Wednesday night when I return from the seeding meeting.'

2/3/01 DLG51564:  'In response to toms@postandpartners.com, neither Coach Cimmino at Mt.Vernon nor any other coach in section 1 has any input into what league thay are going to play in.  So his idea that Mt.Vernon is ducking White Plains holds no water. I applaud Mt.Vernon for playing the schedule they did.  It's good for them and it's good for Section1 basketball. Hopefully White Plains and Mt. Vernon will meet in the County Center, it could be in the semifinals though based on Mt.Vernon's seeding right now.  W.P. is going to be the 2 seed (Poughkeepsie is now the #1,though they have a game with All Hallows next week). I am a coach in Class A and I am looking foward to the sectional and I know that any dreams of my Walter Panas team of getting to the center have to include a major upset along the way. Next year there will be a new alignment of leagues to deal with . I know that we will go back to class B. The realingmant issue is going to rear its ugly head every year with a majority of all of th decision making be done by principals and athletic directors. Thats why we play the games.'

2/2/01 Newsday: Edison coach Floyd Bank's Career Ends After 45 Years.

2/2/01  Newsday  All Hallows 66, LaSalle 52: Ricky Soliver had 16 points, Bobby Santiago had 12 and Marvin Mccullough added 11 for All Hallows (14-2, 4-0 CHSAA New York I). Khalid Rumph led LaSalle (8-11, 0-4) with 20.

2/2/01 NJO  St. Benedict's Prep with a 51-40 upset victory over St. Patrick's, No. 5 in The Star-Ledger Top 20, yesterday in Newark.

2/2/01 The Blue Ribbon College Preview edition no longer includes high school information.  It is in their Early Season Update edition which is now available.  Dajuan Wagner and Lenny Cooke make their national first team along with seniors Eddie Curry,  Ousmane Cisse and sophomore LeBron James.  From our area Julius Hodge is on the second team while Ben Gordon and Ernest Turner are included in their top 44 profiles.  Six NYC, NJ players make their 100 More Stars list - Kenny Adeleke,  Randy Foye,  Jason Fraser,  Chris McRae,  Simplice NJoye (6-11, senior at Masters in Dobbs Ferry) and Adrian Walton.  The nineteen freshmen from NYC, NJ who made the Blue Ribbon list are on the class of 2004 page.

2/2/01 South Jersey News:  Dajuan Wagner's second-half surge lifts Camden to win.

2/2/01 Inquirer: Dajuan Wagner saves Camden with huge 2d half. Camden Catholic led by 16 at one point, but the Panthers star led the way back with 36 after halftime.

Inquirer: Sam Carchidi on Dajuan Wagner.

2/2/01 Glenn Bynes on Dajuan Wagner.

2/2/01  BRO:  Cooke-in'.

2/2/01 NJO:  Jared Hillman keys Plainfield, 64-61 ... over Newark East Side.

2/2/01  Daily News:  Lincoln Gets Payback.  

On Tap: Lincoln visits defending CHSAA champion St. Raymond's at 6 p.m. tonight. The game was recently added to both teams' schedules.

2/2/01  Coach Will Stasiuk's 2001 Playoff Reports.

2/2/01  bonfire12 with an FDA update on the team page.

2/2/01 Brooklyn Scout:   NYC JUCO Update, Big Apple Sports link is http://www.eteamz.com/bigapplesports.

2/1/01  Web note: It should be fun to see the NYS rankings next week when St Mary and St Dominic are ranked in class A.

2/1/01 Burt Beagle's NYC rankings as of 1/28 with record and state ranking in brackets:  

Public -- 1. Robeson (17-1, 2),   2. Grady (19-2, 5),   3.  Boys & Girls (20-3, 10),   4. Roosevelt (17-2, 13),   5. Lincoln (16-4),   6.  FDA (17-3),   7. Cardozo (15-4),   8. Curtis (17-2),   9. Campus Magnet (16-4),  10.  Park West.  

Private -- 1. All Hallows (12-2, 3),  2.  Molloy (13-3, 4),   3. Rice (10-6, 9),  4. St Raymond (8-7, 12),   5.  Holy Cross (13-4, 20),   6.  Loughlin (12-5, 6),   7.  CTK (9-8),    8. Xaverian (12-4, 11),  9.  Poly Prep (10-3), 10.  St Peter (17-1).

Others in the state's Class A top 15:  Schenectady (15-0, 1),  White Plains (14-1, 9), Mount Vernon (10-5, 14) and Hempstead (10-1, 17).

NYS Class B includes St Mary (13-2, 1),  Amityville (11-1, 2)  Ben Banniker (20-2, 5),  St Dominic (10-4, 8),  JFK Somers (14-2, 11) and Bx. Science (20-1, 20).

NYS Class C has Buffalo Traditional (11-2, 1),  Poly Prep (10-3, 3) and Regis (16-2, 5).

NYS Class D lists Hamilton (13-1, 1), Greenport (11-1,2) and Tuckahoe (12-3, 13)

.2/1/00 privateschools@hotmail.com:  'The Dodson-Draughon duo of Trevor Day School has been falling short as of late. Trevor lost a heart-breaker to Horace Mann earlier this week by 2 in overtime. Kevin Draughon scored 23 points and added 7 assists. Billy Dodson scored 11 and also added 7 assists. Trevor also came up short last night against Loyola in a 55-53 ballgame. In that game, Draughon struggled from the field, but made up for it on the defensive end, giving the Loyola guards a lot to handle. Billy Dodson scored 22, but it wasn't enough to pull Trevor over Loyola.'

2/1/01  BRO  Lenny Cooke  --  Manhattan transfer to debut.

2/1/01 Eddie Oliver:  'Get ready for the best high school event of the 2000-2001 season -- Prime Time Shootout,  February 8-11 - Trenton, New Jersey.

2/1/01 Daily News:  Holy Cross 69, Xaverian 67 (OT).  Miguel Gonzalez hit two free throws with :5.8 to play in overtime for the Knights (14-4, 4-2 CHSAA BQ) late Tuesday night. Joe Marino had a game-high 29 points for HC.

2/1/01 LFBALL: 'I am scheduled to be on radio station WLIB 1190 AM at 3 PM Thursday to talk about HS Hoops. I plan on talking a bit about this site and various contributers. I will be talking about NYC and NJ HS hoops. So if anyone has a radio near by, listen in. I received the call today so it is a bit tentative depending on my schedule, and I do have a few meetings to move around. It is The Larry Hardasey Show (sp). I was also on last year because Marion Boykin, a well known boxing writer checks this site out and enjoyed my insight.'