Four new teams crack this week’s GrassrootsHoops.net FAB 50, including fast-rising Etiwanda (Etiwanda, Calif.), which has advanced to the semifinals of the loaded CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs, where they face No. 7 Mater Dei (Santa Ana, Calif.) on Tuesday evening. State titles have been captured in North Carolina and Florida with some of those winners and other top-ranked independents eyeing an invitation to Dick’s Nationals in New York at the end of the season.
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New FAB 50 National Rankings
Two new teams crack this week’s GrassrootsHoops.net FAB 50 national rankings and both have been previously ranked. Some games around the country last week were cancelled because of snow and icy weather, but the playoffs are beginning to heat up regardless.
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Updated FAB 50 National Rankings
Three new teams crack this week’s GrassrootsHoops.net FAB 50 national rankings, including one that fell out for just a week. The state playoffs around the country are coming into focus and for some of teams that don’t participate, such as No. 1 Montverde Academy of Florida, the focus shifts to the end-of-season Dick’s Nationals Tournament in New York.
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New FAB 50 National Rankings
Only one new team cracks this week’s GrassrootsHoops.net FAB 50 national rankings. It’s longtime NYC power Lincoln (Brooklyn, N.Y.), but it came at the expense of another Big Apple squad. Read along for our explanation and understand why local consensus is so important — and why as veteran pollsters we sometimes have to go against it.
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Updated FAB 50 National Rankings
Only three new teams crack this week’s GrassrootsHoops.net FAB 50 national rankings, but there are also three new teams in the top 10. The recurring themes are to not harshly penalize teams that lose to another ranked foe, reward teams that have played tough schedules and reward teams that are still unbeaten at this point of the season.
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Updated Mr. Basketball USA Tracker
Ben Simmons, the most versatile player in the country and the leader of the nation’s top-ranked team, leads voting in updated Grassroots Hoops Mr. Basketball USA Tracker. On the eve of the McDonald’s All-American roster announcement, the voting process produces an expanded set of national player of the year candidates from the preseason.
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Updated FAB 50 National Rankings
There are 10 new teams in this special MLK edition of the GrassrootsHoops.net FAB 50, which includes results through Monday’s games. Montverde Academy of Florida is still No. 1 with two teams hot on the Eagles’ tail for the top spot. Linden (N.J.) leads the newcomers at No. 22 after two big wins last week with Iowa City West of Iowa cracking the FAB 50 in the final spot in the new rankings.
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New FAB 50 National Rankings
There are only four new teams in the GrassrootsHoops.net FAB 50, but for the second consecutive week there is a new No. 1 after previous No. 1 Oak Hill Academy (Mouth of Wilson, Va.) went down at the Penny Hardaway HoopFest. The new No. 1 is a familiar team to coaches, players and fans who follow the rankings. Among the four newcomers, Montrose Christian (Rockville, Md.) is the highest ranked at No. 44.
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Updated FAB 50 National Rankings
The New Year brings big changes to the GrassrootsHoops.net FAB 50, as Oak Hill Academy (Mouth of Wilson, Va.) takes over the No. 1 spot. The big rankings question this week is what to do with previous No. 1 Montverde Academy and the Wheeler (Marietta, Ga.) team that beat the Eagles. There are 14 newcomers to the rankings with the highest being No. 16 Patrick School (Elizabeth, N.J .), which could be in hot water with the NJSIAA.
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No. 1 Goes Down, So Now What?
Grassroots Hoops FAB 50 No. 1 Montverde Academy (Montverde, Fla.) goes down in the championship game of the City of Palms Classic, preventing a third consecutive title for the Eagles and shaking up the national rankings. So what does the loss mean? Who is No. 1 now? What does the loss mean for the rest of the season?
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