Ranking the Top 10 Large & Small: 2024 Season - Week 2

 

Large Schools

1. Timon (AA) - Jaiden Harrison became the newest member of WNY's illustrious 2K Club, reaching the milestone in a rout over visiting Maritime.  This week brings road trips to Lackawanna and Pioneer. 

2. Health Sciences (AA2) - Opened the season with a win in a packed house at St. Joe's on Friday.  The Falcons take on Middle College Tuesday night, ahead of the opening round of the Live Like Luca Tournament at St. Francis, where they open with Williamsville East.

3. Canisius (AA) - An 18-point win over Cathedral Prep makes it four straight victories to open the season for the Crusaders.  Their closest game so far was a 15-point win over Jamestown.  Friday is rivalry night at St. Joe's.

4. Niagara Falls (AAA) - Nick Estell scored 20 of his game-high 33 points in the second half to lead the Wolverines past Nichols on Friday, improving the team to 3–1 with a trip to North Carolina for a pair of games coming this week.

5. St. Joe's (AA) - Watched a two-point lead slip away with just over a minute left to play in their home opener against Health Sciences.  This Friday evening will be a truly special night on Kenmore Ave.

6. Jamestown (AA1) - I put my eyes on Jamestown for the first time this season and came away impressed watching their victory Park.  The team chemistry was noticeable and junior Jaydian Johnson has definitely brought his game up another level.

7. Orchard Park (AA1) - Like the Red Raiders above, Orchard Park also took on The Park School this week and earned a very similar victory, then defeated Vertus, 68-49, at Rocket Mortage Fieldhouse in Cleveland.  They face Cardinal O’Hara this week before opening against St. Mary’s at the Depew Tournament on Thursday.

8. Nichols (AA) - Coming off a 44-point win against City Honors, the Vikings got clipped at home by Niagara Falls on a Friday night battle.  Another tough matchup comes this week when they travel to Main Street to face Amherst on Friday.

9. Williamsville East (AA2) - The Flames 4-1 start to the 2024 campaign includes the win over Clarence, and most recently, Williamsville North.  They’ll take a swing at the #2 large school when they take on Health Sciences at St. Francis on Wednesday.

10. Lancaster (AAA) - Wins at Park and O’Hara have the Legends off to a 4–0 start on the season with games at East Aurora and CSAT scheduled this week.

 

Small Schools

1. Randolph (C) - The defending state champions are 3–0 after cruising past Silver Creek by 31 points.  They visit Portville before wrapping up the week at home on Friday night against Allegany-Limestone.  

2. Salamanca (B2) - Following the season-opening loss by the Warriors, they found their mojo back in a big way during an 18-point victory over Williamsville South and followed it up by dropping Depew by 25 points Saturday at SUNY Fredonia.  They’ll need that mojo on hand when they visit Niagara Wheatfield this Thursday night.

3. Newfane (B1) - Earned a 27-point win at Maritime on Thursday night to improve to 4-1.  The Panthers host Emerson to begin the week and then travel to Albion to wrap it up.

4. Fredonia (B1) - Fell to Harbor Creek (PA) this weekend.  The Hillbillies look to get back on track heading into the holidays with games coming at Lake Shore and against Buffalo Arts.

5. Falconer (B2) - Picked up another win this week by 23 points at Sherman.  The Golden Falcons will host Cassadaga Valley & Maple Grove this week.

6. Westfield (C) - After earning a 9-point victory at Panama, the Wolverines made it three wins in three nights after rolling Frewsburg by 33 points, and then Southwestern by 14 to win the Westfield Tournament.  They face Clymer this week, and then get a rematch with Southwestern.

7. Akron (B1) - A 41-point victory against JFK, followed by a 28-point went over Albion has the Tigers off to a 4-0 start to the season.  The annual Jack Silvernail Tournament hosted by Akron tips this week.

8. Burgard (B1) - The Bulldogs are all over my radar and quite possibly not high enough on it.  Now 4–0 after following up an 18-point victory over MST Seneca with a 50-point shellacking of Emerson.  Trekwon Guilford has scored over 20 points in every game for Burgard this season, averaging 24.5 PPG.

9. Middle College (B1) - After knocking off I-Prep, the Kats were tripped up by Hutch Tech.  They'll head to Villa Maria to take on Health Sciences this Tuesday night and end the week with the game against East.

10. Eden (B2) - Another definite first for me in my high school basketball days, ranking Eden.  The Raiders are now 5–0 this season, most least recently delivering Tapestry a 29-point loss.  The team travels to Springville this week.

 

-centercourt

Comments

[Mor]

Niagara Falls improved to 3-0, huh?!? Are you trying to help them forget the thumping they took in “The Jungle”?
All love, CC
Go Tigers!

[centercourt]

Yikes! I need an editor. And Carlos needs to have all of his games on that section site lol.

I will be sure to mention that result a couple more times throughout the season to make it up to The Jungle.

Thanks for the correction, two shots and possession for Timon.

[Moe]

👍🐅👍

[Claude S.]

Why is Timon playing such an easy non-league schedule with the most talented team in WNY?

Bennett, Maritime, Pioneer, Lackawanna

I’d like to see them play more top teams like they did against Niagara Falls.

[TML1000]

Surprised that Timon is not really playing any out of area games either. On the girls side, O'Hara has been the top program for about a decade now and they regularly test themselves by playing both the best WNY teams and numerous out of area/out of state games...they already played two very good teams in DC and are currently playing at the Tarkanian Classic in Vegas.

[Troll]

Willl East loses to Health Science by 2 W/O best player …..interesting

[the watcher]

health science loses to frontier. What does this do to Frontier and more importantly, Health Science.