New C-P T20

Once again, the top part of this sucker was simple. It started getting hard at No. 10 and by No. 15 or 16, it was as difficult as it gets:

1. CCath
2. Gami
3. Wilson
4. Spirit
5. Boro
6. AC
7. RV
8. CH East
9. OC
10. Eustace
11. PVI
12. WTwp
13. Willstown
14. Cumberland
15. Cherokee
16. SHeart
17. Mainland
18. EHT
19. Haddonfield
20. Glassboro

Almost: Collingswood, Heights, Moorestown, Timber Creek, Sterling, Haddon Twp., Cinnaminson, Pleasantville, WWCath.

I decided to put BE at 10 because I needed to move PVI up and BE beat PVI. Plus, BE has not lost to anybody outside the T10 with Lazos in the lineup, and she's playing some great basketball of late.

SHeart getting clobbered by a JSykes-less Spirit team was troubling, but not enought to drop them out of the T20 altogether. I'm wondering what will happen when the Hearts play Wildwood Catholic. That CAL National II Division is deceptively tough, with just one easy win in five squads.

The Colonial continues to be a pain in the neck. Somebody from Heights asked me before the HField game if the Garnets would stay ranked if they won, and my knee-jerk answer was, "Yes, of course." But the more I looked at it, the more bothersome it became, what with the interwoven league losses and that defeat to Mainland at the Cougar Classic. Plus, I think this week it's Collingswood's turn to be playing the best basketball in the Colonial, and they beat HH to prove it.

So, I put Mainland back in for having beaten EHT and HH earlier in the season and kicking the crap out of Hammonton 66-17 on Friday. Then I decided to leave Haddonfield at 19 despite two straight losses and a two-overtime scare at Audubon before that, mostly because the Dawgs are the only Colonial team with real, quality out-of-conference wins, which came against No. 8 CH East and No. 16 Sacred Heart. I'm not sure how good that SH win really is, but the CHE victory looks better and better, even if it is getting farther and farther in the past.

I'm fairly certain there will always be a Colonial representative in the T20, but the days of the league having five teams in there have taken a vacation. Collingswood was probably the next team in, but next week it could be somebody else from the Colonial Big 5.

Finally, at No. 20 I put Glassboro there because they only have two losses, and have strung together 10 straight wins. If the Bulldogs get Rachel Fowler back, they might well be the SJ Group 2 favorite, in addition to being the top seed.

Anyway, I'll be at CC-Wilson II on Tuesday afternoon, and I might try to get to Shawnee-Timber Creek later that night, since I haven't seen TC in a while and I haven't seen the Renegades at all. Plus, that game is basically for the Olympic Patriot title. Hopefully there will be room in the paper for both games.