NCS D1 D2 ..the haves and have nots

[northbaybbguru]

An interesting thing I noticed about the NCS D1 and D2 sections.

Despite 4 teams being pulled from D1 and 2 from D2 for the Open the 2 teams that won each section (Monte Vista and Acalanes) still smoked everyone. Acalanes won all 3 games by a combined score of 60 pts with the closest being 11. Meanwhile Monte Vista won by a combined 137 pts with the closest game being 14! I mean seriously..they took FOUR TEAMS OUT OF D1 THAT WERE SUPPOSEDLY BETTER.

BOTH section champs were public..so the private narrative doesn't fly on the competitive equity argument.

Im not sure what this all means but it was just something interesting I noticed. Why no close games? Is there really that much of a gap between the haves and have nots?

Unfortunately for Acalanes this means they are bound for D1 after next year as surely CN and Salesian get pulled to the OPEN again and Acalanes rolls every team again..maybe worse as their best players are just babies and should get even better.

 

[Norcal_Fan]

As for Acalanes, from what i heard they had a GREAT freshman class that followed Gardner from her AAU team. So they should be legit until they graduate. It seemed (overall) it was a down year for Norcal basketball as a whole. The top teams were still mostly top teams but the good teams just seemed bleh. The good thing is that it's opened up a lot of opportunities for the have nots.

 

[northbaybbguru]

As for Acalanes, from what i heard they had a GREAT freshman class that followed Gardner from her AAU team. So they should be legit until they graduate. It seemed (overall) it was a down year for Norcal basketball as a whole. The top teams were still mostly top teams but the good teams just seemed bleh. The good thing is that it's opened up a lot of opportunities for the have nots.

Yep... I believe Acalanes will be gifted another D2 section championship next year (after they pull CN and Salesian again). Then they will be moved up to D1. Lucky for them just in time for their stellar frosh class to be upperclassmen.

NCS D2 this year was not good... There were 3 good teams.. Salesian, CN and Acalanes and once Salesian and CN got pulled it was a cakewalk for Acalanes.