Boys Basketball Tournament Time

Its boys tournament time and there are some very good match-ups that could take place this week.

I am hoping for an East-Highland Park final in the Highland Park Tournament. Highland Park is ranked number one in class 5A and undefeated. Highland Park is athletic and a perennial power, as is East. It could provide a very entertaining final.

Dodge City's Tournament of Champions, as always, will offer some interesting match-ups you otherwise would not get a chance to see. The most lopsided game on paper would be the Derby-Moscow game on Thursday in the first round. Derby has a classified enrollment of 1453 and Moscow has an enrollment of....37. Derby's basketball team very likely has more boys than Moscow high school. Moscow does have a decent 6-3 record.

The McPherson Tournament offers a potential championship game between Heights and McPherson. Both are currently undefeated. McPherson's road is a little tougher as it will likely have to go through Shawnee Mission East in the second round.

Valley Center's January Jam features a very diverse sampling of schools. Southeast, KC Turner, Topeka Seamen, Valley Center, BV Northwest, KC Schlagle, Junction City and Garden City will all be in attendance.

The other tournament I will be looking at is the Bluestem Classic in El Dorado. Undefeated Collegiate and Trinity are on opposite sides of the bracket and are also the smallest schools in the tourney. Trinity would have to get by host El Dorado and then the winner of Great Bend-Kapaun to make the final. Collegiate needs to beat Campus and then the winner of Wichita North-Gardner Edgerton to make the final.

What games would you like to see this week? Any good tournaments out there I am not mentioning? Let me know.