Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Division Two Preseason Rankings

In Division two nearly everyone, outside of the Wisconsin High School Yearbook, considers Northwestern to be the #1 team. The made it to the final four a year ago and return two of their top three players in 6'5 Steve Tecker and 6'8 Donnie Hissa. Tecker averaged 21 points a game a year ago while Hissa recorded a double double with 12 points and 10 boards a game. There are a ton of great players in the division two team but, not a lot of dominating teams so the state field is very wide open at the start of the year.

Division Two
1. Northwestern- Already stated the reasons above.
2. Wisconsin Lutheran- Defending state champs bring back there top player in 6'4 senior Flavian Davis.
3. Port Washington- Badger recruit 6'4 senior Josh Gasser is primed for a big year.
4. Catholic Memorial- Disciplined team that has one of the top backcourts in a pair of senior guards in 6'4 TJ Bray and 6'0 Derek Schell.
5. Seymour- Thunder appear to be returning to glory behind their strong junior class highlighted by 6'7 Phil Romback.
6. St. Johns Military- 5 of their top 7 players return and add a transfer that was a double digit scorer a year ago in a D1 conference.
7. River Valley- Should finally get over the hump and make it to state behind a pair of juniors in 6'1 Noah Baryenbruch and 6'4 Alex Richard who were both double digit scorers a year ago.
8. Waupun- High scoring team led by big time scoring 6'3 senior Austin Armga.
9. Reedsburg- Maybe not a real common pick but, I think the Beavers could be a team that could challenge some people with 6'3 junior Chad Mazur a sharpshooter and 6'2 senior Jordan Van Cleave who attacks the rim very hard and can jump outta the gym.
10. Monroe- Lost a lot but, have a great backcourt in a pair of 6'1 juniors in Bryan Tordoff and Michael Barrett.

HM
New Berlin Eisenhower
Prairie du Chien

There are my final picks. I'll admit that I had some trouble picking teams after eight so I was reaching a bit and couldn't really think of any teams that really stood out to me.

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