Conference 36 Title game: East Rock VS R.E.Lee

[leemen]

This a battle of two final four contenders on Saturday night for the C-36 Championship in Staunton. I think a lot of fans have wanted to see this match up this season. Both teams will host regional games against the 3rd and 4th seeds from C-35.

East Rock is playing well and survived a good Page team last night. To be fair East Rock has been banged up and is expecting their key gaurd Rogers back for the game Saturday night. The Eagles are a veteran team and have all the pieces to make a deep run. They are also a well coached team

Lee is coming off a school record 123 point performance against Stuarts Draft in winning 123-87. Lee is also playing well and seem to really clicking lately. Lee had one of their key gaurds Jayden Williams out with sickness for two games last week but...he seems healthy and played well last night.

Should be a good one Saturday night with the title on the line and the regional no.1 seed. Before that game Page County and Stuarts Draft will play for the 3rd and 4th seeds in the upcoming region tourney. That game also in Staunton.

Thoughts?

Also how is C-35 looking as far as match-ups with C-36. At least potential match-ups?

 

[gtownfencecrew]

Conference 35
Semifinals – Saturday, Feb. 11
Clarke County vs. #1 Madison County
#3 seed Central (Woodstock) at #2 George Mason

 

[longtimerhsfan]

Gtown:

You must have been reading my mind because I was considering posting some playoff questions, but I think you may have answered most of them. So let me review just to make sure I understand.

I do understand that all four of the teams you have just discussed will advance to the regionals and that they are essentially playing for seeding. So am I correct that they will only be matched up against the Conference 35 teams? In other words, 35 and 36 will do their thing while 33 and 34 will be doing theirs, right?

Assuming I am right thus far in what I am saying, do I also have it right that the top two teams that come out of 35/36 will advance to JMU that first weekend in March along with the top two that come out of 33/34, along with four teams that come from the West Regional?

I guess what I am REALLY getting at is that the playoffs are structured in such a way that one conference if it were truly head and shoulders above the other three still could not get more than two teams into the state tournament. If that is in fact the case, then I guess I don't have a problem with it, because Lee and East Rock have pretty much shown on the court that they are the dominant teams in the conference, and anything Page and Draft accomplish from here on out will have to be considered "upsets." I guess Madison is considered the top dog in 35, so three of the four favorites are pretty clear.

Like I said, it all makes sense, but there is still a small part of me that would like to see at least a possibility for one conference to have all four spots in the state quarters, because hypothetically, one of these four conferences could have the "best four" teams in the East, but yet they would eliminate each other along the way before they get to the really big stage.

I guess it is my same line of thinking that would cause any ACC fan to want to see the conference have three, maybe all four teams in the Final Four. I think either the Big East or the Big Ten have had three before but nobody has ever had all four.

Anyway, thanks for your clarification and good luck to your Panthers the rest of the way. I give them a good shot to knock off Draft tomorrow, because playing the Cougars is all about familiarity and making adjustments to what they do.

 

[longtimerhsfan]

Oops my bad. When I read the above the first time, my brain thought Gtown had posted everything, but I now see that he and Leemen were working as a tag team. So thanks to both of you.

 

[gtownfencecrew]

I sure hope Page has a "good shot" against Draft tomorrow. Seems Draft has had our number both times this season....the first time winning by 31 @ Page and then @ Draft by 11. It all depends I believe on Draft and how they're shooting from downtown. The game @ Page, they literally could not miss beyond the arc.

 

[longtimerhsfan]

I sure hope Page has a "good shot" against Draft tomorrow. Seems Draft has had our number both times this season....the first time winning by 31 @ Page and then @ Draft by 11. It all depends I believe on Draft and how they're shooting from downtown. The game @ Page, they literally could not miss beyond the arc.

Well if you do the math, you are due to win by 9 this time! You are correct that the Draft's success depends almost entirely on how well they shoot from behind the arc. When they played Riverheads the second time, I think they hit maybe 5 or 6 for the game and they could not throw it in the ocean (or even hold on to it for that matter) during a miserable six-point second quarter. Some teams have even held them under 50 points this season.

 

[southerntester]

Longtimerhsfan, I believe 4 teams from each side of the 2A brackets will advance to JMU. So 4 teams from 2A west and 4 teams from 2A east with #1 seed playing #4 seed and vice versa. Hopefully I am reading that correctly but that's what VHSL has posted.

http://www.vhsl.org/doc/upload/bkb-2017-2A-supersite-schedule.pdf

Which means if you win your first round regional game you should be in at JMU. Right?

 

[longtimerhsfan]

Here I am trying to sound like an expert when I have been asking a ton of questions myself, but I think in the East at least, you will have to win two games in the regionals to make it to the quarter-finals at JMU. Am I right guys?

The East Regionals is a 16-team affair, so therefore the first round of games would only cut it down to 8 teams. That would therefore mean that a second round (to cut it from 8 down to 4) would have to be played and those four winners would be the ones to advance to JMU. As discussed earlier, that would have to be two teams from the 33/34 side of the bracket and two from the 35/36 side.

Now if you are a West guy, then what you are saying could be right. I seem to recall reading somewhere that 2-A West starts out with only 8 teams. If that is the case, then yes, winning one regional game would send you to JMU.

Am I right folks or did I further complicate an already-complicated situation?

 

[leemen]

If you're in the East you have to win two games to clinch a state tourney berth. Then I believe the remaining 4 teams that will have clinched state tourney bids play in the 2A East region semifinals and then a championship and consolation game to decide seeding. Just like the conference 36 tourney is operating. Once you win your first two games...you're in the state. You will have two games remaining in regional

On the west you need one win to get a state bid and then it plays out the same way seeding wise as the east.

When you get to the State quarterfinals you will have the no.4 seed from the East play the no.1 seed from the West, no. 3 East Vs no. 2 West, No. 3 West against no. 2 East and No. 4 West against no. 1 East.

I'm pretty sure that is accurate.