Inopportune Time For a Bad game

Now that the Wildcats laid an egg first game out, what does this mean for the balance of the tournament. The goal of most ( not all) is to participate in the Division One competition. Division One has all the top teams from around the country. In simple terms it means we will not get an opportunity to play the Oklahoma Storm or the HCYA Warriors who have been right above them in the standings and would have meant a lot to the team to play them.

The purpose of the seeding round is to break the thirty two D-1 teams into four brackets of eight. They do this by a simple elimination process. Win first game you will be in 6A or 5A depending on the results tomorrow – winners to 6A losers to 5A. In our case, we lost so the winner on the second day games goes to 4A and the loser to 3A. Our road won’t be easy since Lakeshore beat the Derby Invasion who will be our opponent tomorrow evening at 8:05 pm.

In tonight’s seeding games only five favorites lost to a lower seed: obviously the Wildcats, Derby who lost 63-54 to Lakeshore, Pulaski County (AR) lost to CHAP Warriors 56-52, Crestwood Calvary to OKC Knights 48-33 and Nashville Warriors who lost to Tulsa Noah 59-52. All results can be found at this link: http://www.homeschoolbasketball.com/Websites/homeschoolbasketball/Files/Content/532127/b18%20d1.pdf

We will still play one game each day Thursday, Friday and Saturday regardless of winning or losing tomorrow evening. If we are in the 4A bracket and finish #1 we basically would be considered the seventeenth best in the country, if #1 in 3A then considered the twenty- fifth best team. I have no doubt we are better but that opportunity is past. We have a chance to show we are a team with character, not a team of characters and put this game behind us.

Many times during the season if we weren’t in sync, it didn’t show because the teams didn’t have the talent to take advantage of the opportunity. These are the top teams from around the country-give Memphis credit, they hit us on a day we would like to forget but everyone will be gunning for us no matter which brackets we find ourselves in. Derby beat the Word of Life team from Tennessee by two points. It will not be an easy game, we had better be ready.

Let’s take care of business!! – GO WILDCATS!