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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2022​

HOOPS: First Top 10 High School Polls of 2022-2023 Season​

With nearly three weeks of action complete and "Holiday Tournament Central" beginning Friday night, let's take a look at the first RVA Sports Network Top 10 High School Basketball Polls of the 2022-23 season!


BOYS:

1) John Marshall
2) Manchester
3) Varina
4) L.C. Bird
5) James River
6) Hopewell
7) Highland Springs
8) Mills Godwin
9) Trinity Episcopal
10) St. Christopher's

On The Cusp: Hermitage, Benedictine, Hanover, Cosby


GIRLS:

1) James River
2) Manchester
3) Thomas Dale
4) Glen Allen
5) Highland Springs
6) Monacan
7) Cosby
8) L.C. Bird
9) Hermitage
10) Mechanicsville

On The Cusp: John Marshall, Mills Godwin, Steward, Hopewell, Louisa




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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2022​

HOOPS: First Top 10 High School Polls of 2022-2023 Season​

With nearly three weeks of action complete and "Holiday Tournament Central" beginning Friday night, let's take a look at the first RVA Sports Network Top 10 High School Basketball Polls of the 2022-23 season!


BOYS:

1) John Marshall
2) Manchester
3) Varina
4) L.C. Bird
5) James River
6) Hopewell
7) Highland Springs
8) Mills Godwin
9) Trinity Episcopal
10) St. Christopher's

On The Cusp: Hermitage, Benedictine, Hanover, Cosby


GIRLS:

1) James River
2) Manchester
3) Thomas Dale
4) Glen Allen
5) Highland Springs
6) Monacan
7) Cosby
8) L.C. Bird
9) Hermitage
10) Mechanicsville

On The Cusp: John Marshall, Mills Godwin, Steward, Hopewell, Louisa




Posted by robwitham at 1:01 PM

Game Points
Teams receive game points regardless if they win or lose, but earn significantly more points for winning. For example, a team will earn 26 points for beating a Class 6 team, but will only receive 14 points for losing to a Class 6 team.

Class/Winning Against/Losing Against
Class 6/26/14
Class 5/24/12
Class 4/22/10
Class 3/20/8
Class 2/18/6
Class 1/16/4

Bonus/Rider Points
Bonus points (also known as rider points) are what separate great teams from good teams. For each opponent a team beats—they’ll receive 2 bonus points for each win that opponent has during the season. For opponents a team loses to—they’ll receive only 1 bonus point for each win that opponent has during the season.

For example, if Team A beats Team B who goes 0-10 during the season, Team A will receive no bonus points at all because Team B doesn’t have any wins (0 wins x 2 points) and Team B will receive 10 points (10 wins x 1 point). And if Team A beats Team C who is 9-1, Team A will receive 18 bonus points (9 wins x 2 points) and Team C will receive 10 points (10 wins x 1 point).

Classification Points
The addition of classification points makes it possible for higher class teams to play lower class team's without creating a disadvantage. Historical districts are still used as a core in scheduling, which creates some districts with different class teams. If a higher class team play's a lower class team, they will automatically receive 2 points for each class jump to make up for the difference in base points. These points are now given whether a team is in your district or not.

1. Louisa County
Returns Poindexter, Steppe, Bell, and a strong nucleus of bench players and players that will move up from JV. They have notched 12 wins in each of the lat two seasons, but this should be the breakthrough year for the Lions, especially because the likes of Austin Katstra and Ryan Ingram are out of the district.

2. Charlottesville
They lose 4 starters (3 to graduation, 1 transfer to Albemarle) but they should be back in full force next season. Sam Neale returns to handle the team, and his scoring average should go way up. Lots of important bench players return, and players from an undefeated JV squad are poised to start their paths to a very promising varsity career at Charlottesville.

3. Western Albemarle
Losing all time leading scorer Ryan Ingram (20 ppg) and two other starters in Josh Coffman and Austin Cress, but Western is always ready to reload. Chris McGahren, who only averaged 10 ppg after an injury riddled season, will be back to lead the team, and Teo Rampini and Jed Strickland will also be back, plus some promising rising sophomores like 6'4 Garrett Payne.

4. Albemarle
Only losing three seniors, but two of them are Austin Katstra (21 ppg, 10 rpg) and Jake Hahn (Hampton-Sydney). Albemarle does return the entire starting back-court with J'Quan Anderson, Cartier Key and Na'ail Arnold, and will get transfer Immanuel Wells from Cville, but the loss of their two bigs will be hard to overcome.

Bottom 4:
5. Monticello
6. Orange County
7. Powhatan
8. Fluvanna County

Losing 4 seniors, three of them starters, but I think they are going to be DANGEROUS the next few years.

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Here is the link to TCIS Football All-Conference selections:

http://hamptonroads.com/2014/11/football-alltidewater-conference-teams

Rappahannock knocks off Sussex 39-28 (I believe) to be the only away team to win that that I have heard of. They said Rapp's Marcus Byrd went wild down there and scored a bunch of TDs. Congrats to the Raiders. Sets up next week Rapp at Essex who won 56-6 over the Dukes.

So 4 of the final 8 1A East teams remaining are from the NND as the top 4 district teams prevail. Well done.

Great job to 107.5 River Country on calling the game and the constant updates on all the 1A East action. mmqp, it does stream online and will be there and streaming next week as well.
This post was edited on 11/14 9:29 PM by uvacavs1