Another Basketball Playoff Crisis

I know there are several Big East teams that now that their basketball seasons are over wish that they could have somehow or other managed to get their games played on Sunday.  Guess what?  Those teams in Wake County that decided to wait till Sunday got a big surprise Sunday morning.  Ice cover roads force postponements of several games which has the 4-A basketball bracket in shambles heading to  Monday's second round.

Now that the state has committed to playing second round games on Monday those that still have 1st round games to finish will need to play Monday pushing some second round games to Tuesday and anyone needing to play Wednesday will just have to miss the News conferences in Fayetteville on Wednesday.  As I write this Sunday night there has been no word from the NCHSAA as to what they can do.  What can they do other than play the remaining first round games on Monday?

Nash County's four high school boys were 0-4 in the opening round while the girls were 1-2.  The only team left standing  from Nash County is the undefeated Lady Knights of Northern Nash 22-0 and they will host Williams high who stands 20-4 so this is not an easy second round game for the Lady Knights.  Game time is 6pm Monday at Northern.

The weather has already played havoc for high school baseball and the season starts officially on Tuesday for most.  Rocky Mount Gryphon's home opener was scheduled for Thursday but Kent Cox and Ron Vincent have already decided to dangerous to put pitchers and batters and fielders on a baseball field when they haven't had any on field practice at all this year so far.  No word as of yet when the makeup will be.  Unless the schedule changes between now and then the Gryphon home opener is now set for Tuesday March 10th at 4pm against SouthWest Edgecombe.

You have probably heard that the Big Ten is trying to start to  make all freshman athletes in all sports ineligible in order to give freshman a full year of college before  putting them on the athletic fields.  I doubt that will ever get off the ground.  Seems funny to me that the power Five conferences were in such a rush to break away from rest of the NCAA in order to try to get all the TV money for themselves.

Do you suppose now what was have Texas A&M playing Kentucky in the SEC, Miami playing Notre Dame  and Penn State having to travel to Nebraska for conference play that the conferences are too  big an area or that this new pay  the players deal is going to cost way more for each school  than income from the Power Five deal.  The Power Fives just maybe in their rush for greed priced themselves right into losing money instead of making more.