Bearsfan wrote:Sorry..... this is not a good comparison..... valley city lost to Fargo North by 20, St. Mary's by 20, Jamestown by 50!! And by the way... the score was 68 - 44. I really don't think it is a good comparison..... shot clock, much more physical under the basket(because the refs let it get that way), and the team depth. I know that a class B team may have won a game here or there.... but to compete means to be more than in a game until the end...... compete means to be .500 or better. Wouldn't happen!!! If I remember right Beulah had some decent players while they were in class A (Becker girls went on to play college ball, Barnett, Just, Boehm) and still would come out with one or 2 wins. There's just too much "meat" that they throw at you and the ref's...well.... lets just say that they don't like the "big" teams getting beat by the little girls on the floor!!!
InTheKnow wrote:Bearsfan wrote:Sorry..... this is not a good comparison..... valley city lost to Fargo North by 20, St. Mary's by 20, Jamestown by 50!! And by the way... the score was 68 - 44. I really don't think it is a good comparison..... shot clock, much more physical under the basket(because the refs let it get that way), and the team depth. I know that a class B team may have won a game here or there.... but to compete means to be more than in a game until the end...... compete means to be .500 or better. Wouldn't happen!!! If I remember right Beulah had some decent players while they were in class A (Becker girls went on to play college ball, Barnett, Just, Boehm) and still would come out with one or 2 wins. There's just too much "meat" that they throw at you and the ref's...well.... lets just say that they don't like the "big" teams getting beat by the little girls on the floor!!!
Good comparison or not that is the only comparison we have to go on as far as i know. What is to say that last years Beulah team would have even made the state B. I know exactly what compete means and there are without a doubt teams in class B that can easily compete with Class A. Like I said win state, no probably not, but finish at least mid pack in the EDC or WDC. Yeah. Why also did I use Drayton/St Thomas, because there star junior point guard and another guard from the same district were on an AAU team that played "the big girls", teams with alot more tallent then anything a Class A school can put together and handeled it quite nicely. You mentioned a couple of names from Beulah. Yes they were good players and went on to college ball but what else did they have for a team? That is the big dfference!
InTheKnow wrote:Well I believe Drayton/St Thomas beat Valley City by like 35+ earlier this year so I would say almost every team that makes the Region in Region 2 could compete. You have the Gillette sister at DP with one already UND bound so she can play. You have Dickson and Baldwin who will be playing college ball some where so they can definately play. Wether or not they would be able to beat the top class A team I have no idea because i dont follow class a closely and can honestly say i havent been to a class A girls game since the Dahlen twins and Jahner were freshman at North. But they would definately be able to compete and represent themselves well.
In general, I would say, although I love Class B basketball, that the depth and benches in Class A would be too much for the average Class B team. But the good players at both levels are good players. If you are so fortunate to have enough in a season, you could compete, not just with the lower and mid-pack Class A's, but with the best. However I would still probably have taken Mandan over Bottineau last year (not 10 games out of 10 games though - so I'm giving Bottineau a shot), but Bottineau could have won the EDC and been in the state title game and been way more competitive.power-aid14 wrote:Bottineau might have been able to win state last year in class A.
The Schwab wrote:with the exception of Mandan how do you think that class b teams would fair against class A as a whole?
bballfan1 wrote:How does Shanley compete than...280 kids 9-12. They are drawing from a very small group of kids and both the girls and boys are #1 in the EDC. Also, Shanley has to deal with fielding a hockey team...something that hardly any class B schools have to deal with.
cdub1 wrote:bballfan1 wrote:How does Shanley compete than...280 kids 9-12. They are drawing from a very small group of kids and both the girls and boys are #1 in the EDC. Also, Shanley has to deal with fielding a hockey team...something that hardly any class B schools have to deal with.
they are having one good year every once in awhile there will be a class b team that would do good in a
bballfan1 wrote:cdub1 wrote:bballfan1 wrote:How does Shanley compete than...280 kids 9-12. They are drawing from a very small group of kids and both the girls and boys are #1 in the EDC. Also, Shanley has to deal with fielding a hockey team...something that hardly any class B schools have to deal with.
they are having one good year every once in awhile there will be a class b team that would do good in a
so...if every couple of years a smaller school will do well in class A, aren't there enough class B teams in the state that you will get a group (or at least a few) teams from class B to compete with teams from class A (maybe not mandan)
bigpoppakdog wrote:Yeah I believe you could have taken Dickinson Trinity(Class B??) and have competed against any class A team the past few years...but other than that, no I don't believe you could get more than 2 or 3 teams girls or boys that could compete with more than the bottom 2 or 3 class A teams....Girls maybe a little different, but not too much in my opinion....New Salem girls were ranked #1 and I don't think they would match up with any of the teams in Class A very well at all.
bballfan1 wrote:How does Shanley compete than...280 kids 9-12. They are drawing from a very small group of kids and both the girls and boys are #1 in the EDC. Also, Shanley has to deal with fielding a hockey team...something that hardly any class B schools have to deal with.
bruins44 wrote:Fargo Souths JV won the Lisbon Chirstmas tournament!! they beat Lisbons Varsity by 20 pts in the championship!!
Most Class B schools could not beat good Class A JV teams
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