NYSSWA State Rankings - Week 6

 

 

The sixth state rankings of the season have been released by the NYSSWA.  Below are the WNY teams that made the cut:

 

Class AA

No teams ranked

 

Class A 

Canisius #8

McKinley #11

Williamsville South #12

Amherst #14

 

Class B

Park #5

St. Mary's #17

Fredonia #22

 

 Class C 

Middle College #4

Randolph #9

Salamanca #11

Silver Creek #13

Tapestry #20

 

Class D

Sherman #3

Panama #12

 

 

** According to the rankings...

 

- Last week, I wrote in this space "Middle College is going to Glens Falls".  I got immediate feedback from multiple peole about that, because they took that statement as a bold prediction in January.  But if you read what's in italics above, it says "According to the rankings", meaning, everything I write in this space is just that.  I wrote 'Middle College is going to Glens Falls' because there are no teams from Section VI or Section V ranked ahead of them...hence, according to the rankings, they're going.

 

- Beating McKinley gets you moved up two spots (Canisius is up from 10 to 8 in Class A).

 

- Losing to Canisius gets you moved up three spots (McKinley is up from 14 to 11 in Class A).

 

- Taking care of business against the teams you're supposed to beat in your league will get you noticed.  Williamsville South & Amherst both jumped up six places in the Class A rankings this week.  South went from 18 to 12 after beating Sweet Home & Lake Shore, while Amherst jumped from 20 to 14 after downing Springville last week.  Both teams face their stiffest league competition this week - South plays Starpoint & Amherst battles with Cheektowaga.  Somehow I doubt either team jumps another six spots, should they gain those much more credible wins.

 

- The Class A sectionals are going to be off the charts this year, but we already knew that.  After #11 McKinley & #12 South play in the Class A1 final, #14 Amherst awaits the winner in the crossover.  The winner of that game gets #3 Greece Athena.  According to the rankings of course.

 

- Leadership Academy of Section V is #4 in Class B, one spot ahead of Park at #5.  They share one common opponent - both teams played at Rochester's East High.  Leadership Academy beat them by six last Tuesday.  Park just beat them by 25 yesterday.  It will be intersesting to see if that is considered when the rankings come out again next week.

 

- There are at least four teams from Section V better than anything we have to offer in Class B.  Fredonia is the only Section VI team ranked in Class B at #22.

 

- 45% of the teams ranked in Class C are from Section VI (5) & Section V (4).

 

 For the complete NYSSWA rankings, click here.

 

-centercourt

Comments

[Miguel is God]

The State poll actually is close to dead on finally. Nichols deserved 2 b ranked but because they have 'too many losses' they r in HM only.

I have 2 work on my addition. Canisius got all 10 votes in the poll this week which equals 100 points but somehow McKinley with no first place votes had 92 points...I'll figure it out.