When I said that Ridge and Bridgewater-Raritan should have been seeded better than 12th and 13th, respectively, in the Somerset County Tournament.
I made a case for those two schools to get the eighth and ninth seeds in a recent blog entry, and then said both got the short end of the stick in my post-meeting notebook analysis.
Several coaches privately said they hoped this would be the year that the debate over whether to give better seeds to big public schools with bad records and tough schedules or smaller public/private schools with good records and weak schedules would be settled.
After Ridge's 63-34 victory against Bound Brook and Bridgewater-Raritan's 62-34 victory against Pingry, it seems pretty clear those two teams should not have been playing first-round games.
Hopefully, we all remember this come next year.
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2 comments:
Word Ryan.
North Plainfield, Bernards, and Gill shouldn't be seeded ahead of Ridge and BR...Why should Somerville or Rutgers Prep be seeing the big schools in the quarters? The first round games weren't even interesting today or last night, now you got North Plainfield hosting Bernards - you were right that North Plainfield was a winner at the seeding meeting; and Somerville and Rutgers Prep gotta host the big schools? What is up with that?
Well done. Never doubt the Hoops Guru.
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