Porter gaud lost to Christ school this weekend in a north carolina toury. Christ schools shortest starting player is 6 5. Their tallest player is 7. They are ranked the 9 best team in the nation by max preps. Porter lost 63-57. In porters second game the beat Greenfield 58-52. Greenfield has a couple of d1 prospects. Good weekend for the cyclones. smith scored 22 and 17 and middleton scored 22 and 14. porter was up 52-50 early in the 4th against Christ School. this shows you how scisa teams can compete with anybody

these are some of Christ schools players


http://rivalshoops.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?Sport=2&pr_key=56247

http://rivalshoops.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?pr_key=65463&Sport=2&SR=TSN

http://charlotte.scout.com/a.z?s=428&p=8&c=1&nid=3072720

http://virginiatech.scout.com/a.z?s=191&p=8&c=1&nid=2973694

Congratulations to the Cyclones for a strong showing.

SCISA would be smart to try to bring Christ School and Asheville School on board to create a conference with Christ Church Episcopal, St. Joseph's Catholic, and Southside Christian.

Also, Spartanburg Day's basketball program has really taken off. They whipped a very good Veritas Christian of Asheville and played very respectably against SCHSL AAAA No. 1 Spartanburg H.S. Bringing Spartanburg Day into SCISA to play Spartanburg Christian, St. Joe's, etc. would make a lot of sense. Right now, I don't think Spartanburg Day and Spartanburg Christian even play each other.

But for St. Joe's and Spartanburg Christian, SCISA is basically nonexistent in the upstate.
If SCISA can't bring in schools from Greenville, Spartanburg and maybe Buncombe County, NC, it runs a real risk of losing St. Joe's and SCA.

SCA scrimmaged Spartanburg Day in early november. They would be a very solid AAA SCISA team behind Pinewood and porter and right there with anyone else.

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But for St. Joe's and Spartanburg Christian, SCISA is basically nonexistent in the upstate.
If SCISA can't bring in schools from Greenville, Spartanburg and maybe Buncombe County, NC, it runs a real risk of losing St. Joe's and SCA.

It is a real frustration for SCA old school. The problem is no one in SCA's region is really strong and outside of going to columbia (ben lipen, hammond, Heathwood) SCA has to play a SCHSL A/AA schedule (before conference play_But for St. Joe's and Spartanburg Christian, SCISA is basically nonexistent in the upstate.
If SCISA can't bring in schools from Greenville, Spartanburg and maybe Buncombe County, NC, it runs a real risk of losing St. Joe's and SCA) to feel like they are preparing for the better lowerstate teams for the playoffs. The differnce is in Charleston and columbia you can play a weaker schedule b/c your league is so strong. I think St. Joes feels the same way!

Coach P, I think you're right about Columbia having the lion's share of good teams. But in Charleston, PW and PG have each other (sometimes 4-5x in a season if you count playoffs and tourneys), but that's it. In their defense, both of those teams play pretty strong out-of-conference schedules. But geography is a big problem for SCISA--I know they don't want kids to have to travel too far for academic reasons, but when they lump conferences together based on proximity, there is a real disparity in terms of quality (note that three of the final four football teams were from the Columbia/Augusta region).

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It is a real frustration for SCA old school. The problem is no one in SCA's region is really strong and outside of going to columbia (ben lipen, hammond, Heathwood) SCA has to play a SCHSL A/AA schedule (before conference play_But for St. Joe's and Spartanburg Christian, SCISA is basically nonexistent in the upstate.
If SCISA can't bring in schools from Greenville, Spartanburg and maybe Buncombe County, NC, it runs a real risk of losing St. Joe's and SCA) to feel like they are preparing for the better lowerstate teams for the playoffs. The differnce is in Charleston and columbia you can play a weaker schedule b/c your league is so strong. I think St. Joes feels the same way!

I have been told King is pretty good this year and with Gibson coaching I think they will challenge SCA in that region.