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New Midwest Region Top 20 Rankings

February 18, 2014 by Ronnie Flores Leave a Comment

We go 20 deep from five separate regions of the nation. During the season, we rank 100 teams and nobody across the country ranks as many teams as StudentSportsBasketball.com. No. 1 teams are Washington D.C. St. John’s (East), Montverde Academy (Southeast), Chicago Curie (Midwest), Prime Prep (Southwest) and Rainier Beach (West).

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Filed Under: Blog, team rankings Tagged With: Apple Valley, Curie, Midwest Region, regional rankings

Updated FAB 50 National Rankings

February 17, 2014 by Ronnie Flores Leave a Comment

FAB 50 576Loyola of Los Angeles and Arlington Country Day of Jacksonville fall from the top 10 after on-court losses last week. Arlington Country Day’s loss was later ruled a forfeit victory while Loyola loses final game of the regular season before jumping into the loaded CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs this week. Top-ranked Curie of Chicago could meet No. 8 Whitney Young on Friday for Chicago Public League title if both win Wednesday semifinal contests.    

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Filed Under: Blog, team rankings Tagged With: Chicago Public League, Curie, FAB 50, Montverde Academy, Whitney Young

Midwest Region Top 20 Rankings

February 11, 2014 by Ronnie Flores Leave a Comment

We go 20 deep from five separate regions of the nation. During the season, we rank 100 teams and nobody across the country ranks as many teams as StudentSportsBasketball.com. No. 1 teams are Washington D.C. St. John’s (East), Montverde Academy (Southeast), Chicago Curie (Midwest), Prime Prep (Southwest) and Rainier Beach (West).

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Filed Under: Blog, team rankings Tagged With: Curie, Midwest Region, regional rankings, Whitney Young

New FAB 50 National Rankings

February 10, 2014 by Ronnie Flores Leave a Comment

Paul VI (Fairfax, Va.) falls from the top 10 after a Washington Catholic Athletic Conference loss to newcomer O’Connell (Arlington, Va.). The Panthers remain in the top 25 because of their overall strength of schedule and a victory later in the week over DeMatha Catholic. The upcoming WCAC playoffs and other section post-season games are sure to cause changes in the next two weeks after this week brings only four newcomers to the FAB 50.    

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Filed Under: Blog, team rankings Tagged With: Curie, FAB 50, Mater Dei, Montverde Academy, National Sports News Service, Rainier Beach, White Station

Like Cliff: Memorable Individual Performances

January 23, 2014 by Ronnie Flores Leave a Comment

Power forward Cliff Alexander put together a memorable performance to help Curie (Chicago) knock off the No. 1 team in the Student Sports FAB 50 over MLK weekend. It was the best solo performance on a big stage in recent memory. Naturally, we dug in our memory bank and archives for the other top individual performances against a top-ranked team since the turn of the century.

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Filed Under: Blog, national player of the year, team rankings Tagged With: Cliff Alexander, Curie, Kevin Love, Louis Williams, Monta Ellis, Montrose Christian, Oak Hill Academy

Updated FAB 50 National Rankings

January 21, 2014 by Ronnie Flores Leave a Comment

For the second consecutive season, the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday hoops bonanza has seen the nation’s No. 1 ranked team lose in a showdown of top-ranked teams at the Hoophall Classic in Massachusetts. On both occasions, the team on the losing end was Montverde Academy (Montverde, Fla.), but this year the scenario was a bit different because the Eagles were unbeaten coming in and the No. 2 ranked team also lost at the same event. Check out the new national pecking order with results through games on MLK Monday and our explanation for placing Curie (Chicago) as the newly crowned No. 1.    

By Ronnie Flores & Mark Tennis
Contributing: Doug Huff

It usually takes a superb performance to knock off the nation’s top-ranked boys basketball team in the Student Sports FAB 50 rankings.

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Filed Under: Blog, team rankings Tagged With: Cliff Alexander, Curie, FAB 50, Hoophall Classic, Jahlil Okafor, Montverde Academy, White Station

No. 1& No. 2 Go Down

January 20, 2014 by Ronnie Flores Leave a Comment

The Hoophall Classic in Springfield, Mass. shakes up the Student Sports FAB 50 national rankings as No. 1 Montverde Academy (Montverde, Fla.) and No. 2 Oak Hill Academy (Mouth of Wilson, Va.) both go down on MLK Monday. Both the Eagles and Oak Hill lose to top 10 ranked teams from Chicago with dominant big men.

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Filed Under: Blog, boys basketball event, team rankings Tagged With: Cliff Alexander, Curie, FAB 50, Hoophall Classic, Jahlil Okafor, Montverde Academy, Paul White, Whitney Young

Quick Shots: FAB 50 Updates

December 4, 2013 by Ronnie Flores Leave a Comment

While some nationally-ranked teams have yet to play, others already have 10 games under their belt. We take a quick look at some of some of the key wins so far and preview the Chicago Elite Classic set for December 7.

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Filed Under: Blog, team rankings Tagged With: Bishop Gorman, Chicago Elite Classic, Cliff Alexander, Curie, FAB 50, St. John Bosco, Whitney Young

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