Bracketology

I was just messing around at lunch time and went on the NCHSAA.org website and you can pull up the State wrestling championships.  You can actually watch each wrestler's match as if it were on game tracker and every time there is a score or the end of a period the screen will change.  So I am watching the Gryphons Wilson Smith match and he is up 2-0 and all of a sudden his match disappears from the screen.  I then looked at matches complete and Wilson Smith the Gryphons 126 sophomore wrestler has won his first match of the day by pin but as they say in wrestling by fall at 47 seconds.  Too bad I can't just sit here and watch all our wrestlers all day.

If you think back for those of you old enough in 1990 you had never heard the word cell phone. This past 25 years our lives have changed drastically and yes with all this technology our children are smarter than we were.  They  may not be developed brain wise to understand how the world operates but they sure know how to use a computer.  Since there has hardly been any basketball what so ever this week the computer can just about tell us before the Saturday deadline what the brackets are going to be in the state basketball playoffs.

If you have been a watcher over the last several years of ESPN's bracketology first four in last four out you know  that it changes every day due to who played last night and who won and loss.  Since there has been no high school basketball this week the bracketology has not budged one bit and highschoolot.com has their brackets set and if they hold true come 2pm Saturday Monday night there will be a massive game at Northern Nash.

Bracketology says all six Big East boys  teams are in by virtue of all of their overall records.  Northern has the only losing record but by being 2nd in the Big East they are safe. Hunt the Big East champ will be seeded 6th, Northern Nash 15th and by making the top 16 both will earn home games Monday.  Rocky Mount is slotted 18, Fike 22, Nash Central25/26/27th and Southern Nash 29th.

That is a wonderful  thing that all six get in but you know like I know that there has been some match ups in the first round that for some reason the State ignores conference against conference and lets the chips fail where they may.  Now when you were looking at Northern 15th and Rocky Mount 18th Northern as the second seed from the Big East is viewed because of record as the last seeded number two team.  Rocky Mount because of record is a three seed and 18th would match Rocky Mount and Northern against each other Monday night at Northern.

Does anybody think that is fair for anybody?  I doubt it.  This weather situation we have had this week unless you practiced on Saturday February 9th you have not had a practice since Rocky Mount slaughtered Northern on the 8th.  School shutdown early Monday preventing any after school activities and there hasn't been any school since to prevent any organized practice.

Undefeated we already know Northern Girls will be at home and depending on a tie breaker they could play a 3-16 team Monday or a 10-12 team.  Can you imagine the crowd at Northern Monday night if RM/NN boys do wind up facing each other?

The rest of the Big East girls the computer is showing Hunt 13th and they just might grab Fike 20th in the first round.  Nash central is pegged by the computer 27th and Rocky Mount 28th so five teams look in for the Big East.  Northern would have home court advantage throughout the sectional and Hunt would get at least one home game.  Everybody else hits the pavement for road games Monday.  I will post as soon as I can the official bracket sometime this afternoon and we will be able to tell how accurate the bracketology computer  is to the real results.