Bigeasy

Bear, see you have put out a updated standings. They look good and hard to argue with. My reason for the STM rank over SGS is I watched them play last night and STM controled the game. SGS, with the loss of Mikitinas, played with a lot of heart on Tuesday night but could not muster enough on Wednesday. St. Jude looks like a guard dominated team that likes to shoot the 3 and on Monday night was hot but on Tuesday night was cold. SGS shut down OLOM inside game and OLOM had nothing to offset the double down defense. Let the debate begin.

Calling yourself an expert does not make you one. As someone who was a player and has been around BB for nearly 40 years, I have seen my share of games. My posts are not meant to be taken as an expert but as those of an informed fan of CSAL who has seen the teams in the league and can review to it. These are strictly my opinion and open for debate. Since it looked like u had not seen a game and was only speaking to history I decided to update the standings. You are more than welcome to go to the CYO site get the schedule and see some games to help with your updated review. I look forward to reading your updated standings to see where we differ.

Bear at least I have seen the teams play and can report on what I have seen versus someone who just talks about the last 10 years of standings. I will agree with you that Parkview is not a CSAL team but I noticed you did not disagree with my standings. Parkview, Catholic and Episcapol along with others are regular 8th grade competition to the CSAL teams of Baton Rouge. Maybe if you actually went to a game you would know that.

The CSAL BB leagues of Baton Rouge look as strong as ever. After seeing most of the teams on the list play either Friday or Saturday, here are my up to date standings.

8th Grade..
1. St. George
2. St. Jude
3. Parkview Baptist
4. OLOM
5. Sacred Heart
6. STM

7th Grade...
1. St. George
2. Sacred Heart
3. St. Jude
4. OLOM
5. STM
6. St. Aloysius
7. St. Alphonsus

In 8th grade, St. Jude coached by Tommy Hodson made a big statement today with a victory over a suprisingly big Parkview Baptist team led by J McGinnis and #40 (unknown). St. Jude will meet St. George in the much anticipated SGS tournament 8th grade finals on Monday night. St. Jude is lead by point guard David Losavio and a host of solid role players. St. George is led by Bobby Mikitinas, Christian Brusavich Jordan Long and Christopher Peck.

In 7th grade, St. George still looks like the team to beat but Sacred Heart and OLOM have shown themselves very competitive during the last week. SGS has beaten Sacred Heart once and OLOM twice in competive contests during the last 10 days. St. Jude is a hard team to predict as they have plenty of size but moves down a notch after losing to Sacred Heart on Saturday. St. George has alot of talent and has the most depth of the teams in this division. The team looks to be 10 deep and is lead by a strong backcourt of N Whalen, W Cotten and A Arceneux along with a dominant front court of B Pinner, R Issa and A Theriot. This team could be one of the best seen on the CSAL trails. Sacred Heart is lead by the tandem of R Brundage and Hunter (unk). While St. Jude is led by a talented guard forward combination of Shexnayder and Daniels. St. George and Sacred Heart meet for round 2 in the finals of the SGS tournament on Monday night.

More updates to follow....

Based upon the games played this week so far, I feel the standings in 8th grade are relatively close to accurate and that the 7th grade standings should be modified. This weekend SGS tournament should clarify things a little as OLOM/STM square off and St. Alphonsus/St. Jude square off Thursday night. SGS plays Holy Family and then the winner of OLOM/STM with Sacred Heart playing the St Alphons/St. Jude winner. I will post new standings next week.

Revised 7th standings as of 1.14.09

7th Grade...
1. St. George
2. Sacred Heart
3 OLOM
4. St. Alphonsus
5. STM
6. St. Jude
7. St. Aloysius

OLOM has a good team and with St. George are the top two teams to beat. They will play soon enough but I feel ST. George has a better top 7 than OLOM.

Missed OLOM in the 2 spot for 8th grade