Here's a list of what I think are the top games to follow this week:
Monday, January 13th
Salamanca @ Allegany-Limestone - 7:30 pm
Clarence @ Lamcaster - 7:30 pm
Sherman @ Clymer - 7:30 pm
Tuesday, January 14th
Holland @ Lackawanna - 7 pm
Canisius @ Bishop Kearney - 7 pm
Iroquois @ Williamsville South - 7:30 pm
Sweet Home @ Hamburg - 7:30 pm
Williamsville East @ Frontier - 7:30 pm
Wednesday, January 15th
McKinley @ East - 6 pm
Thursday, January 16th
Lackawanna @ Alden - 7 pm
Williamsville South @ Hamburg - 7:30 pm
Friday, January 17th
Nichols @ Park - 6:30 pm
Niagara Falls @ North Tonawanda - 7 pm
Iroquois @ Sweet Home - 7:30 pm
Williamsville North @ Clarence - 7:30 pm
MLK Classic at City Honors High School
Tapestry @ City Honors - 4:30 pm
IPrep vs. Maritime Charter - 6 pm
Middle College vs. Cheektowaga - 7:30 pm
Saturday, January 18th
MLK Classic @ City Honors High School
St. Francis vs. Hutch-Tech - 11 am
East vs. Sweet Home - 12:30 pm
Canisius vs. McKinley - 2 pm
Game of the Week - McKinley @ East on Wednesday, January 15th
- The Yale Cup is the name of Buffalo's city league, and also the name of the trophy every team competing in that league covets. East and McKinley have combined to win five of the last seven Yale Cups, including the last three. East won it in 2007, 2009, & 2011. McKinley hoisted it back-to-back the last two seasons, 2012 & 2013. The Cup was won by Grover in 2008, before McKinley knocked them out of the playoffs...only to have its season ended by East, who advanced to Glens Falls in Class A that year. Needless to say, these two programs are the gold standard of city basketball.
Both teams will enter the game undefeated in league play. In fact, McKinley has been unbeaten in the Yale Cup in each of the last two seasons and enters the game with a 29-game winning streak in the Yale Cup. That would be a remarkable feat for any team in any league to win that many in a row, but especially in a talent-laden league like the Yale Cup. The Macks winning streak is closing in on history - Riverside holds the benchmark at 34 games dating back to the Mike Williams era in 2005 & 2006. If you include postseason & nonleague games against Yale Cup schools, McKinley has won 33 consecutively versus Buffalo Public Schools.
The Macks were ranked sixth in last week's large school poll, and will likely move up, possibly as high as #2, following a win over Williamsville North on Friday. McKinley is also considered a top 20 team in NYS in Class A. East will enter the game as not only the top ranked small school in WNY, but in all of NYS.
-centercourt
How about Nichols at Park Friday ?
Posted by: Gang Green | Sunday, January 12, 2014 at 06:00 PM
Updated it - thanks.
Posted by: centercourt | Sunday, January 12, 2014 at 08:45 PM
Yo FYI: the overall schedule (the arbiter used by schools/officials) says three MLK games at City Honors Sat -- the first two, then Canisius-McK listed at 2 (Canisius site also says 2). Cheek-City Honors not listed.
Arbiter also has three games at City Honors Friday -- Cheektowaga-Middle College at 7:30 ... City Honors-Tapestry is first game at 4:30 (which matches maxpreps). I-Prep/Maritime listed at 6.
gotta love high school schedule-induced headaches.
Posted by: Keith McShea | Sunday, January 12, 2014 at 09:50 PM
Thank you!
Posted by: centercourt | Sunday, January 12, 2014 at 10:50 PM