Here is a list of the teams I think have improved the most since last season.
Did I forget anyone? Tell me.
But remember, a good team, such as Hunterdon Central, is not ranked because the Red Devils also were very good last season.
This top 10 is strictly based on one team's improvement during the past 12 months and has nothing to do with how I think they would fare in a match-up with another team on the list:
1. Mount St. Mary
2. Bridgewater-Raritan
3. South Hunterdon
4. North Hunterdon
5. Rutgers Prep
6. Plainfield
7. Ridge
8. Delaware Valley
9. Gill St. Bernard's
10. Middlesex
FOR MORE GIRLS BASKETBALL: Check out Saturday's notebook. It contains a feature on an assistant coach with a familiar name to women's basketball loyalists, an item on a team that has been decimated by injuries like no other in the area, a bunch of quick hits that you might not know and the real Top 10 rankings.
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Mount Saint Mary has improved, definitely, but they don't deserve to be the most improved team. They have gotten very lucky so far this year, and in my opinion, games against Del Val and Belvidere in the coming week will be a wake-up call for MSM. I expect Belvidere to blow them out of the water. Led by an arrogant coach who has only a 6 girl rotation, MSM is off to a great start but I expect that to head downhill any day now.
I agree with anonymous. I think Del Val will beat MSM and Belvidere is going to beat them badly. They squeaked past Bernards in two early games. Luck has been on their side and it might be running out.
Some of the improvements that you are seeing are a direct result of the declined in the quality of the teams. Teams that were very good are now below average and are being beaten by average teams. So it therefore looks like this average team has improved when in fact because of graduation these good teams have fallen on hard times. Teams that come to mind are Immaculata, Hillsborough, Voorhees.
The only reason anybody is talking about Mount Saint Mary and Gill St Bernard instead of Imaculatta, is that Mount and Gill have had better recruiting years, lately. But don't worry the Spartan nation scouts are out scouring the middle school gyms far and wide for talent. They will return to their accustomed place at or near the top of the rankings very soon.
Have not seen MSM play, but if the "arrogant coach" is only playing 6, eventually the Skylands Conference is gonna wear them down. That's gonna be tough, but it is always better to be lucky than good.
Nice try but there is a reason that MSM does not play the likes of Hillsboro, 'Latta or Voorhees, . . . would not be much of a game, unless they played the JV teams at those bigger schools.
keep it real Dunleavy...
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