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  Back on the ball game, North Jersey sports.com's original
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  multimedia series talking all things hoops across North Jersey
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  and this state tournament is flying by.
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  I am Corey Doviak, being joined by the assistant coach of the
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  Fighting Felicians on the bus again.
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  He is Brad Forest. Theory.
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  Brad, where are we going today? Today we are on the bus heading
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  down to Philadelphia for our last regular season game since I
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  fell college, which I notably called is the Hogwarts of T2.
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  Oh yeah, yeah, no, I walked on there.
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  Denver. I I tell you, I walked in the
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  Hogwarts. I feel like I had fun.
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  I would like to see that it's a old.
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  School building, very nice campus.
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  Yeah, old school building. It really is very hard work,
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  hard work life. So I mean Chestnut Hill along.
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  Feel free to comment, yes. You know Felician has its
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  Hogwart style as well too. I mean you got some funky old
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  buildings. I believe you have a castle
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  there on. Campus.
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  You know a legitimate castle on campus.
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  Yes, that's where they keep the head coach after he wins the
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  school's first ever outright tax championship.
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  So the Golden Throne is in there and everything else, and then I
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  guess you're a subject of the court.
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  That's it. I'm the jester.
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  All right, so all jokes aside here, let's catch up on the
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  state tournament. Now, the weather obviously
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  wrought havoc with the opening round.
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  It pushed everything to later on in the week, and then it gets
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  rolling. And I'm so glad that you
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  suggested a show today because you know it can get away from
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  you. All of a sudden you don't do a
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  show for a week and three rounds go by and you're looking.
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  So I was. Yeah, let's get this one rolling
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  because you know, if you know, it's the semifinals were like,
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  man, we gotta we gotta roll it back two whole rounds.
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  Yeah, yeah. So this is great.
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  So let's, I was at let's we're going to start in North One
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  Group 3, just because that is the bracket that I found myself
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  in last night. I was looking at all the games
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  and I thought one of the most competitive ones would be #5
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  Demarest against #12 Wayne Hills in Demarest.
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  And let's be honest, it was the one closest to my house.
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  So I was, I was, it was the the closest competitive game to my
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  house. I probably should have prefaced
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  it by saying that. But you know, if, if Wayne Hills
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  is the 12 seed in a bracket, you know, it's a, it's a pretty
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  tough bracket because they have some players they just got
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  healthy for, well, a little bit more healthy than they had been
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  all year. And you know, Kevin Grimes does
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  a great job with Wayne Hills. Obviously, Pat Gabriel, one of
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  our favorites, I mean, you very close to him.
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  And I've been covering him for a long time now.
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  And Demarest switched to his own second-half, made Wayne Hills
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  beat him from the outside. It didn't happen.
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  And Demarest got out of there with a 60 to 61 to 50 win.
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  I mean, you can comment on that. But more importantly is the
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  bracket as a whole, I think with what happened with our guest
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  from Lesho Ramapo and Nick Beer. Yeah, you know, you know, for
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  for me, right, looking at that Demarest Wayne Hills game where
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  it has a lot of like undertones, right?
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  You have, you know, Grimes who who coach that Demarest prior to
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  Pat being there. And Chris has younger brothers
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  of The Who are now carrying that torch.
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  So, yeah, I thought that was pretty cool.
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  Like you said, the younger brothers kind of carried the
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  torch there. They LED, they LED, you know,
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  Demarest storing Wayne Hills as a kid who was a junior Brooklyn
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  Zielinski. I I, you know, pretty talented
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  under upperclassmen kind of, you know, power then just didn't
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  have enough. Well, yeah, I mean, I I thought
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  that was the most intriguing first round matchup in this
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  bracket. Yeah, there was an upset, you
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  know, Riverdale, the OPA Penn at OPA Penn.
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  Yeah, but I mean, you know, Morris Knowles, you know, I end
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  up clipping manifold in overtime, which, you know, I
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  don't know if I would really call that an upset.
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  You know, they met last year in the in the 712 game that also
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  went down to the wire. So I mean, those are two
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  familiar toes. And, you know, as we talked
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  about, it was close to here. You know, they're they're a big
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  kid. You know, Braden Hallock had had
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  a sorry, Brody Hallock had a had a big game.
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  He had 28 points for them. So, yeah, just you know, I I
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  couldn't get there. I said we were preparing for our
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  game. But but yeah, I mean, I I just
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  think that, you know, outside of those those two, I mean, the
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  bracket kind of looks the way we thought it would in a flying
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  Wayne Valley will square up Denver and Montville, Northern
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  Highlands now obviously gets Morris Knowles, which kind of
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  changes probably trajectory a little bit.
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  All right, because I think you had Rarefo with Northern
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  Highlands, so that that obviously may change the
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  outlook. Yep.
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  And then you know, Teaneck is Riverdale, which we kind of
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  focus the cost up anyway. We still have to get a good, you
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  know. So yeah, I mean, nothing is
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  nothing much has changed on my end.
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  Otherwise you you read it differently.
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  Well, I had, I had Northern Highlands winning it, you had
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  Teaneck winning it. So we're both still alive there
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  for sure. The interesting thing is that
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  you know Riverdale Teaneck, I don't even know how much of an
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  upset by the seeds. It's an upset Riverdale double
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  digit seed. But certainly you knew that was
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  going to be a tough first round match up for old fan at home.
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  And then it's Riverdale Teaneck in a rematch of the Bergen
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  County round, the 16 game. That was one of the best games
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  I've covered all year. And Riverdale took Teaneck into
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  overtime. So a rematch, although it's
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  going to be a little bit different because that one's
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  going to be at Teaneck, not on our neutral floor at Tenafly.
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  I think Tenafly has, you know, it's been a great story all
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  year. If they started out in 19 and
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  oh, mid Bergen County Final Four.
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  And then it's turned into, it's continued to be a great story,
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  but it's different now with the loss of their leading scorer,
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  the number one seed. They took care of business
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  against Bergenfield. That was expected.
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  But now it's an interesting match up in the quarterfinals #1
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  Tenafly against #8 Wayne Valley. And you know, I'm a little the
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  only, I think my only interaction with Wayne Valley
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  this year is that, you know, Rich Barton covered the Passaic
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  County final for us. And I didn't even realize what
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  we were talking about on the show last week.
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  But Wayne Valley only scored 25 points in that game.
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  So to me, you know, that shows some vulnerability by the
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  Indians. Not saying they're not a live
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  dog because I know you like them, but Tenafly, Wayne Valley,
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  it could be a really competitive quarter final round, but Tenafly
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  still I, I still feel good about Tenafly's chances even without
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  Goldschneider. Demarest, I don't know anything
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  about Montvale basketball, but Demarest when they played
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  defense the way they did last night and Brooklyn Jolinski, you
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  mentioned them. He was hurt.
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  I think he missed 13 games with a foot injury for most of the
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  year. But he's that guy that you don't
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  want to cover at the YMCA 10 years from now because you know
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  he's going to set hard picks. He's all elbows.
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  He sticks, you know, the the foot out on the jump shot,
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  trying to draw fouls every way possible.
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  I love the fact that he uses the glass extensively.
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  He's an old school type player up and unders.
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  He can make the, you know, the open 3 pointer.
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  He's physical and aggressive. So I really liked him and Wayne
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  Hills has a lot of talent coming back.
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  I did talk to Kevin Grimes on the way to the bus yesterday
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  and, you know, he was optimistic in the future of Wayne Hills as
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  well as should be. So I think that even speaks more
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  to the fact that Demarest had a, you know, a good game against
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  them. They're going to visit Montville
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  should be a competitive game. Northern Highlands now back
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  fully healthy with a home game against Morris Moles.
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  I like their chances. And then Teaneck, Riverdale, you
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  know, I have Highlands winning. You got Teaneck.
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  So we're live and N one. Group 3 is back to its
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  unpredictable. Spell.
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  Even though you know, with two double digit seeds moving on
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  into the quarterfinals. Yes, it's turning out to be the
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  blunt list, he said. It would be, I think, you know,
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  I didn't look at Central and South Georgia, but I that could
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  be the most competitive right here.
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  Yeah, agreed. Should we move on here to where
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  do you want to go? You want to go?
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  I, I, I like N one Group 1 because that's, you know,
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  another one that we said was going to be competitive.
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  And it really starts now because it was chalk in the first round.
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  Cressfield took care of New Milford, Park Ridge took care of
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  Indian Hills. That's up sets up the 1/8
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  Cressco at home against Park Ridge 2 rivals that we've been
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  talking about all year that should be playing each other.
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  This should be their third match up of the year rather than I
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  don't know if they I think they did play once, but you got
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  Midland Park Pequannock in the five four-game, Waldwick
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  Wallkill Valley in the three six and then we had Johnny Ziemba on
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  the show last week too. And Emerson is through with a
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  win over Booton and they will play college achieve of
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  Patterson. So the Group 1's well accounted
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  for here. The Bergen County Group 1's well
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  accounted for here still. Yeah, and you know, you know, a
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  little shout out to to Tony Murphy at college and Chief
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  Hanson, who also plays in the police and stream league.
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  You know, they're they're, you know, that's I think that's
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  their first state firm and wins in program history.
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  So, you know, kudos to them. But yeah, I mean, it's shaking
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  out the way we thought it would. Definitely more intriguing
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  matchups in this in this quarter final.
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  She has like a 6768 kid in the middle.
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  So it'd be interesting to see how Emerson handles that.
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  You know, I know John is he always has some some type of
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  game plan, knows how to scheme for those kinds of things.
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  You know, Waldwick, you know, I didn't think so, you know,
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  celebrates the 14. You know, I was expecting
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  Waldwick to be handle that game more than an 8 point win at
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  home. Yeah.
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  So, you know, little, little worse in there.
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  You know, Delray had 28, you know, he had 22, you know, but
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  yeah, I mean, I, I would have expected, you know, the 314 to
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  be a little more handle. So as far as that score, yeah.
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  But yeah, I mean, outside of that, you know, JJ Graham went
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  for 25, you know, the, the the leading scores in this, you
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  know, in this bracket handles business.
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  But you know, for Chronic over Horthorn, Horthorn was having a
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  good year. Chronic had a kid, Breeden Van
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  Lanton went for 2020 plus and like 15 rebounds, something like
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  that, you know, so big time double double from him.
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  So, yeah, I mean, I, I just think, well, this, you know, my
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  favorite bracket was one Group 1, which I'm partial to is
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  shaping up to the pretty competitive.
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  So I like this so far. Yeah.
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  Well, let me tell you, both our pictures still are alive, you
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  know. Yes, I have Cresskill.
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  You have Cresskill. So we're good there.
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  But let me tell you who I'm not rooting for.
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  Can I tell you I'm not rooting for Johnny Ziemba and Emerson?
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  Because didn't we, didn't we have a good time on the show?
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  I mean, wasn't that fun? Yeah, I thought, I thought it
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  was. A good time, Yeah.
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  Great guy, right? So, you know, he sends me a text
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  the next day, you know. Thanks, it was great.
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  Can I have a link? I want to send it to my son.
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  Everything's good. Then I'm out the other day at
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  the pier. I'm Piermont.
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  I'm walking my dog. It's the only place around here
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  where you can get any steps in at all.
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  So I'm, I'm taking a nice long walk with the dog.
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  The old phone buzzes. I look down.
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  It's a text from Johnny Ziemba with a screenshot from a story
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  that I wrote on Fort Lee in 2002.
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  And you know what the caption of his screenshot is?
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  Boy, are you old. Yeah, Thanks, Johnny.
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  But you know what? You know what?
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  You were there too, pal. So what does that make you?
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  Let's go, College of Chief Patterson.
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  Let's move on. North One, Group 2.
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  We got some interesting stuff here, too.
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  I have Ramsey, you have Jefferson.
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  Just to remind of the pitch, both are still alive, but I
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  regret to inform you Brad, that your beloved alma mater, the
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  number 7 seeded Crusaders of Elmwood Park, went down at home
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  to a Sussex County team. Vernon makes the long ride down
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  route 234637 and another, another out of area double digit
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  came into DuMont Parsippany Hills in the 11 and they're
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  walking through. So you got Jefferson, the two
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  against 10, Vernon and Westwood, the three against #11 Parsippany
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  Hills. What happened, Brad?
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  Yeah, I don't know. I I might have to give, you
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  know, Steve, Steve Herger to call.
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  And I can see what's going on over there because we don't we
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  don't, we don't lose at home. I mean, you can't lose at home.
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  Yeah, like they have an hour ride out.
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  I mean, they took an hour ride down and then beat you and drove
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  an hour back. Not good.
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  Unacceptable in my book. I'm sure he's listening.
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  He's waiting for a second message too, and I wonder if I
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  can get one. We'll address that later.
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  Yeah, no. And not only not only is
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  Jefferson through, Jefferson is through to the semi already.
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  Oh, right. I do not know how, but because
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  even though things got pushed back, I assume they kept that
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  quarterfinal game on schedule. So they.
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  Went back-to-back. So they went they went past that
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  hill Thursday and ran it back against Vernon, who is, you
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  know, it's a it's a, you know, the neighboring county game
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  right such here then 5549. So Jefferson on to the semis.
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  Well, they'll they'll play the winner of Westwood and.
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  Far Hills, Yeah, That's Mark by Jefferson.
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  That they, you know, gave himself an extra day of rest.
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  Yeah, now they, they got yeah, 2 days of rest, yeah.
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  And, and you know, and you know, shout out to Coach Parsons and
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  the Cards for convincing 30 point win against the Union.
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  Yeah, double the no. Glen Rock Glen Rock handles
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  Lakeland, which you said what happened Hashtag Valley hand
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  handled the Falcons in Manchester, which I'm glad to
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  see former rival in the VPS. Yep, that Mahwah for simply game
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  right, that 98 that was crossed up, but you know the T birds
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  representing taking care of the high point.
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  So you know familiar foes Ramsey Mahwah spared up you know the
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  19. I think that.
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  Hashtag Valley. Glen Rock.
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  Game is going to be very good. Both of those teams kind of kind
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  of have a very similar style, you know, So I say guys that
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  come down to the lower Bergen County and see if they can give
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  him a run and Westwood get to be helpful at home against Morris
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  County, Far Hills. So yeah, we're all still alive.
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  I had Jefferson, you had Ramsey. Yep.
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  I, I, you know, I'm already through.
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  So, you know, there's really no, no stress for me in this, in
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  this, this, you know, phase matchups.
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  You're the leader. You're the leader in the
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  clubhouse. I am the leader in the
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  clubhouse, sitting at at one under.
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  I did, yeah. I did mention that in our
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  preview show that Pascack Valley was dangerous here.
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  I mean, 14 and 14 on the season, but you know, they played in a
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  very tough division, going up against Demarest twice, Teaneck
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  twice, Tenafly twice. So battle tested.
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  Yeah, I mean, so my thing is and and we've talked about this in
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  length, New York Times, you know, it's funny, but it's true.
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  Like in the state tournament, you get you get here to the
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  tournament if you get in, no matter what your record is,
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  everybody is. So what else, you know, trying
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  to believe in that. I believe one of the one of the
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  coaches we were talking to last week that I also kind of made
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  that same representation. And it's true, you know, no, I
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  think I was looking at a Central or South bracks.
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  So that I sometimes I just, I just go through all the scores
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  and, you know, see who did. And there were this eight in
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  eight in 19-8 and eighteen, that national 15, that was 500.
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  So yeah, you know, February, March, basketball, anything can
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  happen. And.
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  That brings you through here. Yeah, I mean, Pascack Valley is
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  a Group 3, has Group 3 infrastructure in a group 2
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  bracket. So there, you know, I, I, I
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  understand it goes by enrollment and everything else, but I don't
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  think a Pascack Valley is a traditional N one group 2
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  partition. You know, they're more of a N
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  one Group 3 up against. Yeah, I think they have the
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  advantage here. I think they have the upper hand
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  here. Yeah, absolutely.
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  All right, let's go to North. Park just like, just like Edwin
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  Park being in Group 2 and South up and down.
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  But you know, I think they're traditionally.
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  Yes, yeah, no, it's true. I mean, you know, it's just the
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  the way it's, it's the fields for sure.
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  You know, Glen Rock is a, you know, traditional group 1-2.
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  They're moving up to to group 2. You know, I, I know it goes by
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  enrollment, but in basketball especially, you get some wacky
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  movement up and down because of all the charter schools that
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  play basketball that don't play football or soccer or other
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  sports. So, you know, they slide in at
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  the bottom and other people move up.
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  So it changes a lot of things as far as, you know, groupings
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  going, you wind up with somebody like beloved charter or
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  something like that across from you on the you know, never,
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  never heard of them. Never.
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  Heard. North One Group 4.
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  This is in my opinion the site of the most vulnerable number
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  one seed and Passaic almost made me a profit as what are they
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  Passaic Indians almost took out. My flair.
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  Yeah, Passaic was was I, I think they were up by three after the
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  third quarter or no, I think they were down 2 after the third
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  quarter. And you know, this is a 16
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  seated Passaic team that came into the tournament having lost
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  four straight, including one to Bergen Tech and one to
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  Pequannock, So not exactly on fire.
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  And then they took top seeded Montclair on the road at
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  Montclair, right down to the nub in a 6259 Montclair victory.
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  So the Mounties hang on, but you know, I, I'm starting to feel
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  like maybe Union City is the maybe the, the favorite going
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  forward here. Although you picked East Orange.
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  I picked, I think I picked Hackensack because no, I picked,
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  I picked east side. So actually the park Tavern
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  pizza, really, the stakes are high.
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  Or tonight's game, the 5:00 PM E orange #5 visiting #4 Patterson
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  East Side. Yeah, you're absolutely right
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  and and absolutely correct. Could be A2 slices of wing right
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  there. It it very well could be.
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  And yeah, you know, this is this did shake up the way we kind of
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  expected it to. I think we even we even hinted
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  that we wouldn't be surprised if Bridge would let the Morris have
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  and beat Morris have which occurred.
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  So yeah. And convincingly.
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  Yeah. Convincingly.
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  But yeah, I mean, Bridge wouldn't hack a text later.
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  Your opponents, Union City, Bloomfield, they have their
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  hands full. You know, like I said, they have
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  a junior 23rd on Piranha who just hit 1000.
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  I think in their in their that first round win.
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  It's solid. But I, I just don't know if they
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  have enough to go into Union City, that East Orange, you
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  know, east side Union can be very good.
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  Like I'm also part of you. Know.
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  Harold East had a mother and father are graduates from East
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  Side. So OK, I have no qualms get
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  away, but I come down to the Silk City and take care of.
• 21:23
  So the Jaguars are listening and, you know, make me make me
• 21:28
  look smart. And I wouldn't, to be honest
• 21:32
  with you, and I wouldn't be surprised if Livingston goes
• 21:35
  into Mark Fair and I saw Mark Fair.
• 21:37
  Yeah, I mean, I kind of expect that.
• 21:38
  How about Livingston beat Mount Olive 3829 in the first round
• 21:42
  like. Car burner out there.
• 21:45
  That that's tough, I mean. Like Group 4, like Group 4 and
• 21:48
  you guys are putting up putting up 76 total total.
• 21:52
  What's the what's the what's the nj.com sports book over under on
• 21:56
  that one? Yeah, I would have.
• 21:58
  I would. Have not have taken the under in
• 22:00
  that one. Yeah, 60 is the I mean, if 60
• 22:03
  was the over other in the game, that's crazy.
• 22:06
  Yeah, I, I mean, I don't know. I I think, you know, group 4IN
• 22:09
  so many like Morristown in football.
• 22:12
  I I, they made the state playoffs and I don't remember, I
• 22:14
  remember screaming about the fact that we need to cut down on
• 22:17
  the amount of teams that make the playoffs because Morristown
• 22:19
  got in with like one or two wins on the season, you know, splice
• 22:24
  in a couple. Although basketball lends itself
• 22:27
  better to a bigger field because you can play three games in a
• 22:30
  week, which, you know, I love the tempo of the high school
• 22:35
  basketball playoffs because of that.
• 22:37
  You know, every other night you're going into a packed gym
• 22:39
  and seeing good games. So once we get to this point, I
• 22:41
  mean, Ridgewood Hackensack is going to be interesting.
• 22:43
  That's today as we tape this early afternoon on Saturday.
• 22:49
  If I could, that would be the game I would go to because they
• 22:52
  split the regular season series with both teams winning on their
• 22:55
  own home floors. Hackensack has the obvious
• 22:58
  advantage because they're home for Ridgewood.
• 23:00
  Hackensack. You know it's a toss up every
• 23:02
  time they play. 2 great coaches too with Mike Troy and Aaron
• 23:05
  Taylor, so that's a good one. All right, let's move into I'm.
• 23:09
  I'm just. I'm just, I'm going to end it
• 23:11
  here with I'm, I'm actually going to root for Aaron Taylor
• 23:13
  because Mike Troy is a Dominican, Dominican alum.
• 23:16
  So I'm going to. So I got to stick with, with
• 23:19
  with with. Thomas here.
• 23:21
  Oh yeah, forget it. Forget.
• 23:22
  I used to like Mike Cho. I didn't realize he wasn't
• 23:24
  Dominican College. I'm a Felician guy.
• 23:28
  That's. Right.
• 23:30
  Felician. Felician E Southburg.
• 23:32
  That's right. Yes.
• 23:33
  How can I root for both of them? Talk about having the weirdest
• 23:36
  favorite teams in America. My two favorite teams are
• 23:39
  Felician East Southburg. Yeah, I was talking to Michael
• 23:42
  Pedo, the athletic director at Demarest yesterday, and he's a
• 23:45
  huge University of North Carolina fan, which makes sense.
• 23:48
  You know, they're a national brand and everything else.
• 23:50
  So he's like, did you see when we beat Duke?
• 23:52
  Papa and I feel like going there?
• 23:54
  No, I'm more worried about the trip to Chestnut Hill College
• 23:57
  tomorrow morning. So.
• 24:02
  North north, let's start we'll go to north too, but let's start
• 24:05
  in north to Group 2, because that's where the one that's
• 24:08
  where we have the most local interest and interesting
• 24:12
  opening. Like I I thought Richfield Park
• 24:14
  had a tough opener against Snyder and again Snyder, I think
• 24:17
  seven wins on the season, but against the tough ACIL schedule,
• 24:22
  Richfield park won the BIC at home.
• 24:26
  Yes, you know they're they're not you knew Snyder was not
• 24:28
  going to be afraid to come into Richfield park on a you know, on
• 24:31
  a not any rush right, right. So Richfield Park, it's a good
• 24:38
  win in the first round and then you know, they're the three seed
• 24:42
  and they host Caldwell and that's a pretty marquee matchup
• 24:45
  for 1/4 final. Lyndhurst taking care of
• 24:48
  business against McNair. So go on track for Lynnhurst.
• 24:51
  Richfield Park rematch of last year's Richfield Park buzzer
• 24:55
  beating win. But N Two Group 2 has a has a
• 24:58
  it's chalk except for Hillside's win over Voorhees.
• 25:01
  But still a lot of local interest and I think the best is
• 25:04
  yet to come in North Two Group 2.
• 25:07
  Yeah, no, absolutely like that. I would agree.
• 25:12
  Well, I mean, I, I think both of those match ups, the Colville,
• 25:15
  Ridgewood Park in on the Lyndhurst Hillside.
• 25:16
  Obviously Hillside is also not going to be afraid to, to, to go
• 25:21
  into Lyndhurst. They, you know, they always
• 25:24
  play, you know, a tough schedule and Colville's a perennial power
• 25:29
  here. You know, Colville's into a
• 25:32
  group final. They've won a couple sections.
• 25:36
  So, you know, I don't think they're going to be nervous
• 25:42
  going into RP, but but yeah, I think I'm sticking to my guns.
• 25:48
  I think whoever, whoever comes out of those those four teams is
• 25:53
  probably a good opportunity to win the section.
• 25:56
  Yeah. Lindhurst putting up 94.
• 25:59
  You know, Tsunami went for 28. I think Glasgow went for 20 plus
• 26:05
  as well. And snow was all over the place.
• 26:07
  But you know, he had like 11 or 12 points and probably about
• 26:12
  three guys with a bunch of steel he finds.
• 26:14
  But yeah, you know, I'm, I'm very intrigued at today's games
• 26:23
  so that they should be interested.
• 26:24
  Yeah, no doubt about it. N to Group 1.
• 26:28
  I mean Shabazz seems to be the class of brackets.
• 26:34
  There's your beloved Charter. Yeah, Thank you for coming,
• 26:37
  beloved Ed Charter. Shabazz, 80.
• 26:41
  Yes. Who's Ed and who was he guarding
• 26:44
  because he got smoked last night?
• 26:47
  Shabazz, 8 to 35 N Arlington of Bergen County.
• 26:52
  Interest lost to something called Newark Global Studies.
• 26:56
  Yeah, another, another that. Probably charter school.
• 26:59
  Yeah, American, American history took out Seacock.
• 27:02
  It's it's. I'll tell.
• 27:03
  You what? It's a lot of work that final.
• 27:05
  Oh yeah, I watched that one. I, I, you know, I saw, you know,
• 27:08
  scroll through my Instagram. Obviously it's a lot of a lot of
• 27:11
  basketball stuff. And Yep, it was a tie game with
• 27:14
  .4 on the top. American history had a baseline
• 27:19
  out of bounds and basically ran a play to get a lob to the rim
• 27:24
  and the kids just went up and tipped it in and knocked it off
• 27:27
  the glass. Buzzer beater gain over.
• 27:30
  See you later, see caucus patriots.
• 27:32
  Oh and American history. American history comes in and
• 27:36
  runs to the locker room with a 2 point win at the buzzer.
• 27:39
  The weight of American history runs deep.
• 27:42
  Yeah, yeah. Newark Tech took care.
• 27:46
  Wallington, the Glen Ridge over Whippany Park and then the
• 27:50
  beloved, beloved Chris Kasparian and the Palisades Park Tigers
• 27:54
  saw their season come to an end. 7141 on the road at Cedar Grove.
• 28:01
  Verona and Arts also advanced. Woodridge had a tough one, only
• 28:06
  scored 22 points in the open round and pretty much Bergen
• 28:10
  Town well N our North Jersey, Bergen, Hudson and Passaic out
• 28:14
  of north to Group 1 as Essex County seems to have taken over.
• 28:20
  Pretty much, yeah. Yeah, it's basically basically
• 28:22
  that's where that's where it's heading.
• 28:26
  But yeah, you know, my hat's off this very.
• 28:32
  Yeah, I'm. Probably getting ready for
• 28:34
  baseball season. Whatever else, I'm sure he.
• 28:37
  Does well let's pal Park has no lacrosse.
• 28:40
  Brad, first of. All that's like, that's like,
• 28:42
  that's all right. It's like the old.
• 28:43
  Park and second of all, they Co-op in baseball, I'm sure.
• 28:48
  So the days of wearing is it a is it a pal Park Leonia?
• 28:53
  I I probably yeah, yeah, probably is it is in it is in
• 28:57
  wrestling, probably is in baseball.
• 29:01
  I was I did a Leonia girls game the other day.
• 29:04
  First of all, just to break in here.
• 29:06
  I saw the the girl Angelica do or doe.
• 29:09
  How how is Co is her last name. She's going to Queen's College,
• 29:14
  which is good division too, right.
• 29:15
  I mean, you know, Yep. So 2000 point scorer, the all
• 29:20
  time leading point scorer for girls in Leonia history.
• 29:24
  And it was funny. Yeah.
• 29:28
  And the chickens are really coming home to roost for me this
• 29:30
  week because, you know, Johnny Z Amba sent me that nasty text
• 29:33
  telling me how old I was. And then I go into Leonia and
• 29:37
  I'm talking to, you know, whose record did she break as the all
• 29:40
  time leading girl scorer? And they're like, oh, yeah, That
• 29:42
  was all the way back. It was a girl named Christine
• 29:44
  Powers. Christine Powers, who was one
• 29:47
  year younger than me when I graduated.
• 29:49
  From Leonia, they're. Like they're looking at her as a
• 29:52
  legend on the wall and I'm like, Oh yeah, I know.
• 29:54
  Christine Powers. I know her well.
• 29:57
  Yes, I, I watched her play in high school.
• 30:00
  When you, you know, for them, you know, it was like their
• 30:04
  Christine powers was like my Bob Cousy.
• 30:07
  You know, I've heard of him, but I never saw him play.
• 30:11
  Yeah, that's like, yeah, you saw yourself.
• 30:14
  Who will you play? No, but I know who he is.
• 30:17
  Yes, yes. So Christine Powers got, you
• 30:21
  know, got some run at 35 years on the wall at Leonia.
• 30:24
  We brought her down off the wall for a couple minutes to write
• 30:27
  the story on Angelica Do and and it it's a fun story, though.
• 30:31
  Again, we're off on a tangent here, but Leonia has seven girls
• 30:35
  on the varsity roster and they got the one girl fouled out and
• 30:41
  the other girl jammed her finger.
• 30:42
  So they were playing with five, and then the girl who jammed her
• 30:46
  finger came back in the game, and then another one found out.
• 30:49
  So they were dangerously close to playing with four players for
• 30:52
  the final three minutes of the game, and they won.
• 30:58
  So yeah, very. And you?
• 30:59
  Know, and you know what's funny to say too?
• 31:01
  And, and here's a here's another recruiting Fitbit, right, for
• 31:04
  these all these high school kids, right, whether it's boys
• 31:07
  or girls basketball, right? Here's a girl who scores over
• 31:10
  2000 points and is going to this too.
• 31:14
  Yeah, that's thinking right on the on the girls side scored
• 31:18
  2000 and is going to still playing scholarship basketball.
• 31:23
  Looking me wrong. Yeah.
• 31:24
  That that's, that's the, that's where we are as far as the
• 31:27
  proving standpoint is. That's where it is like you
• 31:32
  scored 2000 points and you're going B2.
• 31:34
  Yep. So take note of that.
• 31:37
  Take note of that, you know, kids listening like there's
• 31:40
  nothing wrong with Division One, Division 2, like any any any
• 31:44
  level. Yeah, plus Queens, Queens
• 31:47
  College is a, you know, great academic school.
• 31:49
  It's part of the City University of New York setup.
• 31:52
  I mean, and you're going to go there for free and you're going
• 31:55
  to get a great education and you're going to.
• 31:57
  And if you go there and crush it, you can move up If, if, if
• 32:00
  that's what you want. Portal.
• 32:01
  You can jump in the portal and then and go somewhere else.
• 32:04
  Yep. So it is a good lesson too,
• 32:07
  because again, we go back and forth to this and I don't mean
• 32:11
  to take it into a girl's tangent, but it's just so
• 32:13
  topical now because last weekend I covered the Bergen County
• 32:16
  final and you had Demarest, which has the top seven in their
• 32:20
  rotation. Six of them are from outside of
• 32:23
  ascending district Demarest. Now they're part of the Bergen
• 32:26
  County Academy set up. They're not doing anything
• 32:29
  wrong. They're not hiding the fact.
• 32:31
  They're not sneaking players in and getting them apartments.
• 32:33
  And Demarest, it's all above board.
• 32:36
  It's not transfer whatever. So but those girls, Zoe
• 32:41
  Wasserloff is one of them who's a unbelievable point, you know,
• 32:45
  point guard, backward player for Emmeris, a great athlete, you
• 32:49
  know, quick, great balance, great feel for the game of
• 32:52
  basketball and really came and made a huge difference.
• 32:55
  Now, she could have stayed at Tenafly and been a, you know,
• 32:58
  2000 point scorer and probably still gone to whatever college
• 33:02
  she wanted to go to or that was recruiting because you don't get
• 33:05
  recruited out of high school anymore.
• 33:07
  But, and, and, and no shade at all.
• 33:10
  Like it's everybody's own sensibilities.
• 33:15
  Whatever you want. Do you want to stay home and,
• 33:17
  and be a part of that and be the best player in the history of
• 33:20
  wherever you come from or score 2000 points at the high school
• 33:23
  that you come from? Or do you want to go and become
• 33:26
  a part of a program that puts itself by bringing in some
• 33:30
  players at the level that it can win a Bergen County
• 33:33
  championship? She chose that.
• 33:35
  Angelica Do, on the other hand, chose to stay home at Leonia and
• 33:39
  play with six other girls on the varsity team for 2000 points.
• 33:44
  And she got to where she's going anyway.
• 33:46
  So times are changing. And you know, I think I think
• 33:52
  the best thing for kids is options.
• 33:53
  And these kids nowadays have more options than ever before.
• 33:58
  Only family, but three guys. Yeah, the high school portal,
• 34:01
  it's just a. High school portal.
• 34:04
  It's just that I don't know where we're going.
• 34:07
  But you know, I remember what, you know, I wanted to try and
• 34:10
  transfer, you know, if I was like, oh, I'm a really good
• 34:14
  junior year, I'm gonna, I'm gonna transfer out.
• 34:16
  You know, we got to sit 30 days. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 34:21
  I mean, I did. I played three years, you know,
• 34:22
  I went to Pal Park for three years and in my senior year I
• 34:25
  transferred to Leonia. But that's because I moved.
• 34:27
  So you know, it was like that. Was like the only loophole,
• 34:30
  Yeah. Like, in order for you to, like,
• 34:31
  be Ellis where I get to move. And I was like, yeah, you know.
• 34:37
  Yeah, Yeah, that's a different story for a different day.
• 34:39
  All right. Where are we?
• 34:40
  We're at North to. Group. 33 Colonia, the top seed,
• 34:46
  the only, all chalk except for #9 Somerville.
• 34:49
  And my only connection to Somerville is that it is about,
• 34:52
  I don't know, 16 years from now that I will be watching.
• 34:57
  Crew. Wong Fallon play in the front
• 34:59
  court for Somerville. That's my nephew and he's about
• 35:02
  3 months old and my niece and her husband live in Somerville.
• 35:05
  So I'm rooting in Somerville because Crew Wong Fallon is on
• 35:09
  his way through the pipeline. Well, I'll be looking forward to
• 35:14
  that. I don't think I will be in New
• 35:16
  Jersey by that. I think I will be tired and get
• 35:19
  them somewhere warmer. But on the other hand, I did
• 35:24
  pick pain techs. Oh.
• 35:26
  Right. I did pick pain techs because of
• 35:29
  the the the talent and roster that I I saw that they had, but
• 35:34
  I also found out that the head coach was also suspended for the
• 35:37
  state game. So maybe that had some
• 35:39
  undertones that, you know, they they work, you know, after that.
• 35:43
  But yeah, either way, Mendham, who I think gave them a problem
• 35:48
  in last year's state came as well.
• 35:50
  Even if they wanted got some revenge on their homecourt and,
• 35:55
  you know, feed them by addiction doesn't.
• 35:57
  So you have one up in this bracket.
• 36:02
  I don't remember who you picked. I believe you probably picked
• 36:03
  Colonia. I took Colonia.
• 36:06
  Yeah, shocker. There was one seed and.
• 36:11
  But yeah, but. You are, you are, you are
• 36:15
  officially one O 1 O on our state firm predictions.
• 36:22
  Score, no doubt. And let's not let's be fair.
• 36:24
  I did take Don Bosco prep too because I felt the pressure with
• 36:27
  Ivan sitting next to you the other day in the car.
• 36:29
  So yeah, that's where I that's where I even it up.
• 36:31
  I mean, that's good. I'll definitely even it up
• 36:33
  there. All right, let's go to North to
• 36:37
  Group 4. What was that?
• 36:40
  That one I think was pretty chalky as well.
• 36:42
  Here 1. One upset and and.
• 36:45
  That's that was two Yeah. Oh, big upset.
• 36:47
  Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, I mean, I had, I had, I
• 36:51
  had Dickens. I had Dickens.
• 36:52
  There's two or two big upsets. But I had I did have Dickinson
• 36:55
  in advancement, like I said, also a Felician Spring League
• 36:58
  team. I know what they have.
• 37:00
  But I also saw Columbia play at the the Stone Shootout, the OK
• 37:08
  at Saint Mary's and they were pretty talented.
• 37:11
  So I'm sure that game was was definitely competitive with them
• 37:15
  getting interest. Everything else was status quo.
• 37:19
  And then we get to Elizabeth and Ridge and obviously a state from
• 37:25
  retirement. We have a lot of Jersey kids on
• 37:26
  our roster and and had a nice little conversation with former
• 37:31
  Minutemen. Jordan JoJo Torres is a freshman
• 37:36
  for us. And I said, hey, look a little
• 37:41
  down today. I said, you want, you want to
• 37:42
  talk about it, talk about, talk about what could be.
• 37:45
  I said, you know what you know, you know what he said down.
• 37:48
  I said, you want to have your team losing in the first round.
• 37:54
  I graduated already. You want to hang your hat on to
• 37:59
  Ridge. Morristown Ridge High School
• 38:03
  went to the Dunn Center and said thank you, see you next year.
• 38:09
  Does is? He out there on the bus, you
• 38:11
  want to get him as a guest here? On the ball game he is he is on
• 38:15
  the bus. I don't know where.
• 38:16
  I don't know where on the bus is.
• 38:18
  He has no interest. Crazy.
• 38:21
  Yeah, JoJo was not happy and I, I didn't like I said.
• 38:25
  But now that also came down like the last five or six seconds.
• 38:27
  One of their guys had a good hard drive left-handed, hit him
• 38:34
  with a hockey stop, turn around jumper and knocked it in and and
• 38:37
  that was it. But yeah, I think this is
• 38:41
  probably the first time I couldn't tell you how long that
• 38:43
  Elizabeth is out in the first round.
• 38:45
  No, no kidding. I mean, to lose that home to
• 38:48
  Ridge is crazy. Yeah.
• 38:51
  All right, so we got I have in that bracket, I have Linden, the
• 38:54
  number two seed, and you have Plainfield.
• 38:57
  So we're both still alive there. Bayonne's still alive as the
• 39:01
  number 5 seed. They took care of Scotch Plains
• 39:04
  Fanwood. I mean, talk about the edge of
• 39:06
  the North Jersey sports.com coverage area.
• 39:09
  Yeah, Bayonne. I don't make it to a lot of
• 39:11
  Bayonne games. I got to be honest.
• 39:16
  Burning edges here, getting into the in the gulf of the we have
• 39:18
  burning. Edges here yes All right so that
• 39:21
  leaves the the non public's non public a in the North Dwight
• 39:28
  Englewood that's a good win you know the 8-9 game for Dwight
• 39:30
  Englewood at home against Newark Academy and they move through
• 39:34
  and then they get to bump up against top seeded Burton
• 39:36
  Catholic Paramus Catholic a good win as the number 12 seed on the
• 39:41
  road taking out del Barton I mean that's a.
• 39:43
  Yes, huge win. Shout out to to my boy Tim
• 39:46
  Thomas. You know, we we speak somewhat
• 39:50
  often, but yeah, it's a very good win for him and his
• 39:52
  program, He said. He wants to go into into PC and
• 39:57
  try and turn it around and you're on the right back
• 39:59
  obviously going into Del Barton, who's was a very good Morris
• 40:03
  County team. Go into Del Barton and win.
• 40:09
  A tough time to do. Yeah, and Tim Thomas is doing it
• 40:13
  a different kind of way at Paramus Catholic.
• 40:15
  You know, like, not that they would have made it anyway, but,
• 40:18
  you know, he declared early that he was not going to play in the
• 40:21
  Bergen County Jamboree, opting for, you know, more of a
• 40:24
  showcase event to. So, you know, it's a different
• 40:29
  path. And I think this is the first
• 40:34
  real sign that it's paying off because or at least moving in
• 40:39
  the right direction here. I don't know perhaps them and
• 40:42
  see what their records. Look like 7 and eight piece but
• 40:45
  but they've you know, they've. Got out.
• 40:48
  Yeah, they they played like, you know, a crazy schedule.
• 40:51
  They weren't interested in any, you know, like, let's get a
• 40:54
  couple here to boost our Jambo resume.
• 40:56
  They're like, you know, we're going to test ourselves.
• 40:58
  And however it falls, it falls. So I think probably the best way
• 41:02
  to say it is the fact that they upset Del Barton on the road as
• 41:06
  the 12 seed shows the growth of the team and program from the
• 41:10
  start of the season to now. Yeah, absolutely.
• 41:13
  Like I said, you know, they you know, they they didn't play in
• 41:17
  the Jamboree or or Oxford to play in different from whoever
• 41:20
  it was. But yeah, I mean, they they now
• 41:23
  that they play in the Iverson Classic, which is a.
• 41:27
  Pretty. Prestigious, you know, tri-state
• 41:30
  area event. Getting to be more East Coast as
• 41:34
  well, but they hosted it. So, you know, I think it's the
• 41:41
  drumming up, the setting it up for for, you know, getting it
• 41:45
  back to to success, maybe back to where it was when I was
• 41:50
  there, back in the flight intervention where they won the
• 41:54
  Burton pen in January. Yeah, then.
• 41:57
  So I mean, maybe they'll get it back for those days.
• 42:00
  So yeah, it's interesting to see how that goes.
• 42:03
  Who was the head coach of those Paramus Cab teams?
• 42:05
  Greg. Greg Barnes.
• 42:08
  Greg Barnes was the head coach. Yeah.
• 42:09
  He was a nice guy, too. He was.
• 42:11
  The guy we worked together in Patterson, okay?
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  That's how I, that's how I end up coaching with him because I,
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  you know, but yeah, good guy. Good.
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  Guy All right, so that down at the bottom of the bracket, you
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  got #3 Hudson Catholic with their first round bye.
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  And they're in for a world of hurt because my Don Bosco Iron
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  Men are coming for them. Bosco with a 71 to 30 victory in
• 42:32
  the opening round. Kevin Deverio a guest on the
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  ball game earlier this season. Ivan Lewis, who has a relation
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  on the team this year, a guest on the ball game.
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  Move over, Felician, move over. East Stroudsburg.
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  I'm a Don Bosco Prep fan nowadays, and we are about to
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  run through the Hawks of Hudson Catholic.
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  I'm telling you, Brad. Yeah, I mean, I was at the game.
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  It was, I believe it was a four point game in the 1st 4I think
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  it was 1816121814 somewhere along those lines.
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  And then you know, Jaylen Lewis flipped up the switch.
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  It comes to 23. He shot it pretty low and was
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  was done after the third quarter.
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  Yeah. But yeah, like I said, I mean,
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  we'll see what happens. And we'll see what happens last
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  quarter you got. Burton County guys, going to the
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  Hudson County is always tough. Yes, yes.
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  And you know, I've been known to change allegiances rather
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  quickly as well. Seton Hall Prep, the number two
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  seed, is going to host DePaul. DePaul, the Passaic County
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  champion, took care of Pope John in the first round.
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  And that's really all I know. I mean, Depaul's on a pretty
• 43:51
  good run. So maybe they give Seton Hall
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  Prep a go in this quarter final round.
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  But you know, this bracket, as we've been saying all along, is
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  Burton Catholics to lose. Yes, absolutely agreed.
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  And then we go to non public B in the north, Saint Mary
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  Rutherford set to begin its tournament on Monday as the four
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  seed hosting Morristown Beard Gill St.
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  Bernard has its official quarterfinal opponent after
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  something called the Pioneer Academy beat Ward Law Hartridge.
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  Which is like on the on the absolute cusp of Bergen County.
• 44:32
  Yeah, yeah. Like way out there.
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  All right, which I've maybe heard of one one other time in
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  my life. They're not very well versed on
• 44:40
  that. You got Mars Catholic.
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  They had the first round. Bye.
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  They'll host Montclair Kimberly, which got by the Franklin School
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  in Jersey City High School. Sounds like an elementary school
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  in any town, USA and then some. I grew up with a kid named
• 44:57
  Timothy Christian. Now there's a high school named
• 44:59
  after him, which is crazy. Yeah.
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  Timothy Christian from Pal Park, who was, Yes, there were seven
• 45:07
  Christian, well, five Christian brothers and seven Christian
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  children in Palisades Park in the mid 80s and early 90s.
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  And then. So Timothy Christian beat coin
• 45:19
  kelp me. Brad, who is that?
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  Yeah, Koenona is out of the state playoffs after a 20 point
• 45:30
  loss and Timothy Christian is about to get bombed by Roselle
• 45:33
  Catholic in the quarterfinal. Yeah, sorry Tim the the school
• 45:38
  you found is is going to is going to lose by 40.
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  Yes, but it was a pleasure growing up with you in
• 45:42
  Palisades. Yeah, absolutely.
• 45:44
  Morris Catholic wins handedly. Yeah, I think there's, I think
• 45:48
  there's Saint Mary's, Morris Town beer game will be a little
• 45:51
  closer than people expect, Really.
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  You know, Morris, MO Beard is coached by one of my father's
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  best friends, Marquis Webb, who's who won a group title,
• 45:59
  group four title at Paterson Eastside.
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  Yeah, decent players. He's pretty, Yeah, pretty decent
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  player, former Big East Defensive Player of the Year.
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  But yeah, I mean, he's got a kid, MJ Jarrell, who who who
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  scored. So yeah.
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  But they still, you know, they're still coming into the
• 46:25
  chip on their shoulder and you know, some of those kids are
• 46:28
  some of those kids that Morris sound weird are also a little
• 46:31
  local to this area. So it should be streaking match
• 46:35
  up that 5. 4 All right, well, we are caught up on the first round
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  and a half of the 2026 boys basketball state sectional
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  playoffs. That's great stuff.
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  We're going to keep it going. Now, I'm going to dip out here
• 46:51
  for a couple of days. I am heading South to meet the
• 46:55
  other two. Yes, the warmer weather, and I'm
• 46:58
  going to meet the other half of the family down there for a
• 47:01
  couple days, but I will be back. So our next show will be on
• 47:04
  Wednesday. We will resume our coverage of
• 47:07
  the basketball tournament. And it's pretty good because
• 47:10
  I'll give some time for some things to happen and then we'll
• 47:12
  have plenty of time to talk about.
• 47:13
  But Brad, good luck closing out the CAC season on the road today
• 47:17
  at chess not help. Appreciate it.
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  And then, you know, hopefully when we get back live, I'll have
• 47:23
  some more good news. As you know, our first round
• 47:25
  home playoff game is Tuesday night.
• 47:27
  So hopefully we can part lay that into our next show,
• 47:31
  catching up with all things quarterfinals and probably
• 47:33
  semifinals by then. Yeah.
• 47:35
  But yeah, enjoy, enjoy your trip to the warmer weather.
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  Say, Brad, see you next time on the boat.
• 47:42
  Follow the leader.