Big East top seed wrestling team Rocky Mount 27-2 joined second seed Northern Nash at C B Aycock High School where both face opening matches in the first round of the playoffs. Northern faced the host school Aycock while Rocky Mount met Havelock.
Both Big East teams win their opening round matches. Northern beats the host 40-36 while Rocky Mount beat Havelock 41-30. This set up Rocky Mount-Northern squaring off in round two on the mats at Aycock and Rocky Mount advances to round three with a 44-33 win over Northern.
Rocky Mount will travel to Union Pines Thursday where they will take on Swansboro 43-2.
There has been a shakeup at Hunt as there has been a disciplinary action taken on one of their starters and tonight the Warriors pay the price as Rocky Mount gets revenge on a blowout loss to Hunt at Rocky Mount as the Gryphons win 57-48. Hunt Drops their second conference game in a row and now stands 4-3 in Big East. Rocky Mount ups their record to 3-4 and in back in playoff picture.
Northern Nash gave up an eight point lead in the fourth quarter but scored when they needed to and knocked off Southern Nash 63-61. Northern's win ups their record to 4-3 and a tie for first in the Big East while Southern drops to 3-4 in a three way tie for last.
Fike tonight hosted Nash Central and the Golden Demons didn't act nice toward the Bulldogs as the boys action was 70-55 in favor of Fike.. Fike now jumps to 4-3 in the Big East while Nash Central drops to 3-4. I guess you can see that there is a three way at the top with Hunt, Fike and Northern Nash at 4-3 while Rocky Mount, Southern Nash and Nash Central are 3-4 unbelievable.
Fike girls were not very nice either to the Lady Bulldogs winning 73-63. Fike stands 4-3 in conference play while the Lady Bulldogs tumble to 2-5.. Northern leads at 7-0-Hunt stands at 5-2- Fike 4-3- Rocky Mount 3-4- Nash Central 2-5 and Southern 0-7. The girls action looks like what a normal conference looks like as the season goes forth. Not the boys.
Under the category of a mis-match tonight in girls basketball the undefeated Lady Knights of Northern Nash won their 18th game of the season as they hosted Southern Nash. This was a clash of the winless and the lossless and Northern wins by a 69-19 score.
Rocky Mount girls lose to Hunt 41-40 and drop to 3-4 in Big east while hunt remains two games back of Northern Nash at 5-2.
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Baffled At The Standings
I think everyone is mystified at ACC basketball this year and even on the local level high school basketball. What in the world is going on? Why is it one team can beat a powerhouse one game and lose by twenty to a nobody the next. On the local level why is it that nobody is dominating anybody. Let's see if we can figure this out.
First let's look at the ACC. Now that every network in the world carries basketball on TV every night there is no reason for a player that we will call a top 100 player just go to Duke, Carolina or Kentucky to get on TV 30 times a year. Why, Campbell has been on two national games in January.
Yes all the major powers get three McDonalds All Americans per team but no longer is the bench full of them. They are now going to Wofford, Davidson or to Butler and are not sitting on the bench as freshmen waiting their turn like they would if they were to go to a powerhouse.
Use to be when the season started twelve teams had a chance to win the NCAA championship now 50 could win it. I will use the WolfPack as an example. They are 14-9 and yet if they get hot at the right time they could win the NCAA. Their problem they need to win enough games just to qualify. Even if they are hot they could lose to somebody else in the same boat as them. So now there is no more UCLA breezes through the regional and only has to play two teams to win the title. That first game for everybody will be against a team that could win it all.
There is two weeks left in the high school basketball season and four teams are tied in the standings with a 3-3 record and yet only one game from being in the lead. The most obvious of all answers is there is no team with great size as has been in the past. Hunt the tallest is the leader but everybody in this Big East has athletes that can run, shoot and jump.
Night in and night out every team is lining up and play themselves because everybody looks the same. Tuesday night's game goes down to the wire and Friday you line up against yourself again. Everybody is doing this so much playing teams equal one little lapse and you are blown out.
Miami beats Duke, then loses by twenty to Georgia Tech. Rocky Mount crushes Fike on the road then falls twice at home. We live in a world where because TV pours so much money into it that the ACC stretches from Miami to Chicago to Boston. Travel and playing good teams night in and night out can be hazardous to any team. The new bye word in college basketball should be "just get in".
There is two weeks to go and somebody in the Big East has to decide we are going to take command. The team that wins at least three out of their last four can do it. Should one win all four they surely will be the regular season champ. If it is Rocky Mount that does that they could still tie for the title.
First let's look at the ACC. Now that every network in the world carries basketball on TV every night there is no reason for a player that we will call a top 100 player just go to Duke, Carolina or Kentucky to get on TV 30 times a year. Why, Campbell has been on two national games in January.
Yes all the major powers get three McDonalds All Americans per team but no longer is the bench full of them. They are now going to Wofford, Davidson or to Butler and are not sitting on the bench as freshmen waiting their turn like they would if they were to go to a powerhouse.
Use to be when the season started twelve teams had a chance to win the NCAA championship now 50 could win it. I will use the WolfPack as an example. They are 14-9 and yet if they get hot at the right time they could win the NCAA. Their problem they need to win enough games just to qualify. Even if they are hot they could lose to somebody else in the same boat as them. So now there is no more UCLA breezes through the regional and only has to play two teams to win the title. That first game for everybody will be against a team that could win it all.
There is two weeks left in the high school basketball season and four teams are tied in the standings with a 3-3 record and yet only one game from being in the lead. The most obvious of all answers is there is no team with great size as has been in the past. Hunt the tallest is the leader but everybody in this Big East has athletes that can run, shoot and jump.
Night in and night out every team is lining up and play themselves because everybody looks the same. Tuesday night's game goes down to the wire and Friday you line up against yourself again. Everybody is doing this so much playing teams equal one little lapse and you are blown out.
Miami beats Duke, then loses by twenty to Georgia Tech. Rocky Mount crushes Fike on the road then falls twice at home. We live in a world where because TV pours so much money into it that the ACC stretches from Miami to Chicago to Boston. Travel and playing good teams night in and night out can be hazardous to any team. The new bye word in college basketball should be "just get in".
There is two weeks to go and somebody in the Big East has to decide we are going to take command. The team that wins at least three out of their last four can do it. Should one win all four they surely will be the regular season champ. If it is Rocky Mount that does that they could still tie for the title.
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