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Zags to leave WCC

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ayalar09 said:
As important as basketball is, football is 5x as more lucrative as any basketball program, so I’m surprised by this.

I know Gonzaga basketball is a top 10 program around the country, but without a football team I don’t understand how this makes sense for the Pac 12
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It seems like this could be the making of the west coast version of The Big East conference. But, agree...where does this leave football?
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NCP Pick'em Week 7 Games

Streak One
Streak One said:
Here are the games for this week. Picks are due by 7:00 PM

Los Gatos at Pittsburg
Palma at Soquel
Christopher at Santa Teresa
Riordan at St. Ignatius
Summerville at Calaveras
Escalon at Hughson
Twelve Bridges at Yuba City
Sacramento at Rodriguez
Ukiah at Carlmont
East Nicolaus at Pierce

Game of the Week Poll - https://norcalpreps.forums.rivals.com/threads/week-7-game-of-the-week-poll.30783/
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10. Pittsburg
9. Riordan (28-21)
8. Twelve Bridges
7. Hughson
6. Summerville
5. Soquel
4. Pierce
3. Christopher
2. Sacramento
1. Ukiah
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NCS Open..

THEOC89
Cal 14 said:
It does.

The NCS “base” divisions are not like those in other sections. They just matter in two ways:

1. The section has always had a 0.500 rule where you had to finish at least that overall, in league, or… against teams within your “base” (i.e., enrollment) division. The base division includes non-NCS teams that have enrollments within those divisions (all like-sized schools they played).

2. If a team does not qualify for D-Open/D-1, then a base division may limit how much higher or lower they can compete in the playoffs. For example, Cardinal Newman has a base division of 6. If they are not among the top 8 teams in the section, they can still make the playoffs, but in no higher than D-4. Deer Valley, being a member of base division 2, cannot play lower than D-4.

All teams are eligible for D-Open/D-1. The top 8 teams are placed there, then the next 8 are in D-2 (with the above stipulation). The divisions and seeds are supposed to be determined by the Maxpreps (really, Calpreps) ratings.

That said, there can still be a human element “for the good of the bracket”.

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Thanks for the Breakdown!…. That makes a lot more sense…. Will be interesting to see how it all plays out!….
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Valkyries and expansion draft

ClayK
So first, there will be no good players in the draft because no team in the league has seven players who are starting-level talent.

That said, teams must protect their unrestricted free agents who can be cored (that is, forced to sign with their existing team for a max contract, which is about $250,000). If they don't protect them, Golden State can draft one of them (from the entire league) and core them. Even then, the other UFAs could be pursued by the Valkyries in the free agent period, in February.

The big names:

Kelsey Plum (Las Vegas): Don't think Vegas will core her, but they will likely protect her. If not, available for GS at the max.

Kelsey Mitchell (Indiana): Will be protected and unlikely to leave a perfect situation for an expansion team. But you never know ...

Breanna Stewart (New York): Grew up in New York, on a great team. And will be protected.

Courtney Vandersloot (New York): Might not be protected, as GS would have to core her and pay her the max, which she is no longer worth. The Liberty have the only roster with a strong player who will be available for the draft.

Satou Sabally (Dallas): Will be protected, but Dallas is awful.

Alyssa Thomas (Connecticut): Will be protected, but she and DeWanna Bonner (her partner) could conceivably come west in February. Bonner is an uncoreable (been cored before) free agent.

The biggest name out there for GS is an uncoreable free agent who cannot be negotiated with until January, and that's Nneka Ogwuminke. Seattle is aging and didn't play up to potential.

Golden State has no bad contracts, an empty salary cap and could sign a few UFAs in 2025. That includes the ones who are protected in the draft and the uncored UFAs:

Bonner
Brionna Jones (Con)
Tina Charles (Atl): Please no
Natasha Howard (Dal)

The expansion draft will be about which UFA Golden State drafts and cores, if there is one available. Otherwise, it will be a lot of people most casual fans have never heard of. (Jaelyn Brown will be available, very likely.)

The rest of the draftable players will be fungible with available free agents in 2025. Some will make the team, but are unlikely to be difference-makers.
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CalPreps to cease operations

M.C. fan
kiddman32 said:
I've heard of Freeman ratings for football, but not for hoops.
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calpreps.com's Freeman Ratings is a one-of-a-kind service designed to relieve high school sections and states of the difficult, costly, and time consuming task of selecting and seeding teams for post-season sectional/state tournaments*. We do power ratings for every sport in existence. Best of all, the cost is negligible-- as low as ONE DOLLAR per school! *Note: We also do youth and college sports.

The author of the ratings system, Ned Freeman, has been doing computer power ratings for numerous sports for over 45 years and has won prediction contests as well (Sports Watch and The Sports Monitor). The computer system that we use has been honed to perfection over time.
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Zags to leave WCC

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colhenrylives said:
Gonzaga will join the revamped Pac 12 in 2026, it was announced today, leaving a gaping hole in the WCC. It was also reported that the Pac 12 has been talking with St. Mary's about joining.
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As important as basketball is, football is 5x as more lucrative as any basketball program, so I’m surprised by this.

I know Gonzaga basketball is a top 10 program around the country, but without a football team I don’t understand how this makes sense for the Pac 12
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NCS Open..

Cal 14
THEOC89 said:
That would be a Joke…. I thought I read that the the top 8 are put in the Open regardless of Division and the Open runner up drops into the D1 final?….. 🤣
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It does.

The NCS “base” divisions are not like those in other sections. They just matter in two ways:

1. The section has always had a 0.500 rule where you had to finish at least that overall, in league, or… against teams within your “base” (i.e., enrollment) division. The base division includes non-NCS teams that have enrollments within those divisions (all like-sized schools they played).

2. If a team does not qualify for D-Open/D-1, then a base division may limit how much higher or lower they can compete in the playoffs. For example, Cardinal Newman has a base division of 6. If they are not among the top 8 teams in the section, they can still make the playoffs, but in no higher than D-4. Deer Valley, being a member of base division 2, cannot play lower than D-4.

All teams are eligible for D-Open/D-1. The top 8 teams are placed there, then the next 8 are in D-2 (with the above stipulation). The divisions and seeds are supposed to be determined by the Maxpreps (really, Calpreps) ratings.

That said, there can still be a human element “for the good of the bracket”.

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NCP Pick'em Week 7 Games

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Streak One said:
Here are the games for this week. Picks are due by 7:00 PM

Los Gatos at Pittsburg
Palma at Soquel
Christopher at Santa Teresa
Riordan at St. Ignatius
Summerville at Calaveras
Escalon at Hughson
Twelve Bridges at Yuba City
Sacramento at Rodriguez
Ukiah at Carlmont
East Nicolaus at Pierce

Game of the Week Poll - https://norcalpreps.forums.rivals.com/threads/week-7-game-of-the-week-poll.30783/
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10 Pitt
9 Twelve Bridges
8Rodriguez
7 Calaveras
6palma
5 carlmont
4 st ig
3escalon
2 santa teresa
1 Pierce
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CalPreps to cease operations

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CBS and its parent company and Paramont Global and the convoluted entities that makeup the entertainment conglomerate are undergoing restructuring and layoffs for some time. Cost cutting happening in order to package the company to merge with another company. This has been going on for some time. I would expect all core businesses were cutting. Unfortunately they should honor their contracts. Hopefully Calpreps will be able to cut a deal with someone.
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