NYSSWA State Rankings - Week 7

 

The state rankings have been released by the NYSSWA.  Below is my weekly post for the 2019 the season and the WNY teams that made the cut:

 

Class AA

Niagara Falls #7

Honorable Mention:  Williamsville North

 

Class A 

Park #1

Lew-Port #18

Honorable Mention:  South Park, St. Francis, St. Joe's, Canisius, Amherst, & Sweet Home

 

Class B

Olean #1

Cardinal O'Hara #3

Allegany-Limestone #15

Southwestern #21

Honorable Mention:  Nichols, Fredonia, Medina, & Wilson

 

Class C 

Tapestry #6

East #16

Middle College #17

Randolph #18

Honorable Mention: Silver Creek, BASCS, & Salamanca

 

Class D

No teams ranked

Honorable Mention:  Clymer & Panama

 

******** According to the rankings above........

 

- In NYS Class AA, Niagara Falls moves up one spot to #8.  There are now only three public schools ahead of the Wolverines and the highest ranked team from Section V is McQuaid at #15.  

 

- The Park School is once again the top ranked team in NYS Class A.  Albany Academy comes in at #2, the team the Pioneers defeated to win the 2018 Federation Championship.  Park travels to face those Cadets this Sunday. 

 

- Lew-Port falls all the way from #10 to #18 in NYS Class A, following the Lancers first loss of the season at the hands of Niagara Falls - a pretty harsh punishment, in my opinion.  The Lancers remain the only Section VI public school to be ranked from Class A, while Section V has three teams ahead of them and two teams behind.

 

- Olean and Cardinal O'Hara remain ranked #1 and #3 respectively in NYS Class B.  They are two of 18 teams in the state that remain undefeated.  Schalmont from Section II, who is the team between them, ranked #2 in NYS Class B, is also unbeaten.

 

- Allegany-Limestone moves up two spots in NYS Class B to #15.  The Gators face #25 ranked Wellsville of Section V this week.

 

- Despite a 36-point loss to Olean, Southwestern managed to move up one spot to #21 in NYS Class B.  Imagine the jump the Trojans would've made had they only lost by 22 points...

 

- Meanwhile, East fell back two places to #16 in NYS Class C, following a road loss at NYS Class A #8 Northstar Christian from Section V.  Gimme a break here, the Panthers were leading after three quarters against a top 10 team two classes higher than them.  If anything, they should've moved up.  I'm beginning to see traces of hamster activity.

 

- No seriously, you can tell there's been hamsters around here -- Randolph won two games last week and Middle College lost, yet the two flipped places with the Kats moving ahead of Randolph.  

 

For complete State Rankings, visit NYSSWA rankings page by clicking HERE

 

-centercourt

Comments

[MMAFan]

Ohara looks scary good magical year , saw them last night again very impressed. Ohara/Park game for all the marbles end of the year. Would not mind seeing them play Falls also.ALtough Falls lost to Park early it seems they are playing on top level. Those three teams are clearly top of the heap in WNY with Frannies and Olean game lurking.That would decide top 4 teams in the area . Then I will go Will Notth, Canisius, Lewiston, Amherst in that next tier playoffs will be fun.Watch out for WSW also big win last night .

[DV stars]

https://buffalonews.com/2019/01/25/buffalo-wny-high-school-da-vinci-basketball-losing-streak-2019/

Now that I've read this article, I think that DaVinci should be ranked...they've been trying hard. I didn't realize that we should praise the efforts of coaches and teams that lose every game by 60-80 points and have coaches who don't know the sport.

[Mad Mike]

No need for that comment at all DV stars. They go out there and play their hearts out. Sure they are not on the level as my Frannies or other MMA teams but glad they showed some love.

[DV]

Lol I'm sure the taxpayers are happy to shell out the amazing cost for those 7 kids to play "varsity" basketball. Let's do the math...head coach (who even by his own claim, doesn't know the sport)$6,000, assistant coach (who played on a great DV team from the past) $3,000, section 6 membership (no idea what that costs), officiating fees, gym usage (wherever it is that they practice, since they don't have a gym of their own), equipment, home game management personnel. Seems like they'd be better off paying for the kids to play at the Y or in a boy's club league. Surely their opponents are also gaining a great amount when they play against a team that gets beat 100+ to <10.

[DV]

Why is DaVinci opting out of sectional play if the kids are having so much fun and learning so much? I guess taking one more beating must be too hurtful for the kids. Sort of how they filled out their non-league schedule...since the kids were having so much fun playing in the games. I'm glad the coach and AD gave them all of their allocation of opportunities to "learn the sport" and "have fun".