NW4A Conference Tourney...

After yesterday's drawing, AC Reynolds gets the first round bye. Here are the matchups for the NW4A Conference Tourney...


#1 AC Reynolds
BYE

#4 South Caldwell
#5 East Burke


#6 Watauga
#3 Freedom

#7 Alex. Central
#2 McDowell

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The quarterfinals start Monday at 7pm at the Higher seed. The semifinals are played Wednesday Night at 6:30 and 8 pm at McDowell. The finals will be played Friday Night, 6:30.

My initial thoughts on the brackets are that I wanna see a South Caldwell and Reynolds matchup on a neutral court. Reynolds won both matchups this year, by 3 at home and by less than 10 at South Caldwell. As much as I like Freedom, I don't wanna see them a third time. Perfect opportunity for Freedom to pull one off in the semis against McDowell. I'm not saying it will happen, but to beat Freedom 3 times in one season is a tough order.

 

My initial thoughts are DAMN....we are going to have to play South Caldwell AGAIN!!! They play so well against us for some reason, I personally had rather see Reynolds play Freedom a 3rd time as to play South a 3rd time. I know McDowell might would rather see South a 3rd time as to see Freedom a 3rd time, tough to be a rival 3 times in a year, but you are playing on your home court so I see McDowell taking out Freedom again, and with relative ease! I think had this tourney been played ANYWHERE but McDowell, AC Reynolds in my eyes, might could win their first Conference Tourney Title, because it would be tough for McDowell to beat us twice in a matter of a week. However, us having to beat South, a team that plays us really well, and then turning around and having to beat McDowell on their floor for the title, I don't see that happening. Of course ANYTHING is possible, but ACR will have to play some great ball, and who knows maybe McDowell playing 3 games this week will catch up to them! One last question, the last 3 tournaments have been at Freedom, East Burke, and McDowell. Now does that mean next year the tournament will be at Watauga, South Caldwell, Alexander Central, or AC Reynolds. I heard someone say it won't because of all the travel, but then I look at the baseball schedule and I see the conference tournament is where....WATAUGA! Now explain why that doesn't involve travel for the teams? If baseball can do it the why can't these other teams host the basketball tournament?

 

Hey Bigdan....I know this isn't the boys basketball thread, but I can't find the NW4A boys tournament pairings ANYWHERE, and no one ever post anything about them on the boys thread on here. Could you post them if you happen to know them. I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks!

 

next year its at South Caldwell.......in alpabetical order! Good luck to all NW4A teams!

 

The boys pairings are located under the thread #1 goes down.

 

Negative, the Nw4A Conference Basketball Tournaments are held by McDowell, Freedom, and East Burke. The reason is because of the size of the gyms. This is the biggest stage for the conference and it would be too cramped to have it at Watauga, South Caldwell, and Alexander Central. And, you wanna have a big crowd to see the champions crowned. The Silver Dome at McDowell seats 8,000 full, and Freedom & East Burke's identical gyms seat around 3,000 full. Ive been the to tournaments at Watauga, South Caldwell, and Alexander Central and it was very cramped to say the least. At times talks was being conducted to move the tournaments to ASU (While hosted by Watauga), and to Shuford Gym (while hosted by SC and AC). Whereas you dont have that problem at the big 3 cause their gyms are big enough to host.

 

thanks for the correction but the other sports still rotate, wont they?

 

The other sports are close to stopping also. Word has it that the softball tournament will be held at Alexander and after this year the baseball will be held at South Caldwell.

 

Not trying to cause a problem here, but ACR holds 3000 full, with the upper sections out on each side. I know this because we just held a Cheerleading Competition here yesterday, and had 27 teams from WNC, Tennessee, and South Carolina all come and with both sides full and based on the money taken in at the gates we had more than 3000 in attendence.

 

I just cant wait to see this tournamnet....I mean just look at the way the games are gonna fall, they should all be close, and thats the way a conference tournament shoud be cause at this point no records even matter any more and everyone gets one last chance to make their mark...what can I say, I'm just excited :flipgrin:


So with all that being said, how do u guys think its gonna go?