boys basketball top 10

Ranney brings back its entire lineup and then some from a 22-win team with high-end talent. Can anyone stop the Panthers from going end-to-end as No. 1 in the Shore Conference?

After a significant week of results, the Shore Conference Tournament will be seeded on Sunday afternoon. Here is a look at the 24-team field and how the qualified teams stack up within the field. 1. Mater Dei Prep (19-3, 13-1) Division Wins: Asbury Park (2), Henry Hudson (2), Keansburg (2), Keyport (2), Point Beach (2), St...

With the basketball season moving into February, a few Shore Conference teams are on the cusp of locking down favorable postseason position in both the Shore Conference and NJSIAA Tournaments. There is still plenty of basketball to be played, however, and Christian Brothers Academy proved this week that anything can still happen by beating undefeated Freehold Township...

Last week’s top 10 underwent a rather serious makeover from the prior week and the last seven days did not exactly answer all of the lingering questions. The landscape is, however, a little clearer one week later, with nine teams settling into comfortable top 10 spots for the time being...

For the first time this year, the Top 10 is going through a serious shakeup. There is a new No. 1 and beyond the top five, it has become a complete free-for-all. On the whole, those teams have beaten one another, lost to unranked opponents, played with different lineups due to injuries and the result is a group of teams that are rather indistinguishable from one another as far as their resumes go.

It is rare that a top 10 remains unchanged from one week to the next, and while this week’s installment is not completely identical to last week’s, it’s about as close as it gets. While Mater Dei and Ranney each have a loss, both are still a few steps away from falling out of the top two...

With the holiday tournaments in the books, the Shore Conference season moves into 2017 with the preseason pecking order mostly intact. One of the preseason top five teams has struggled enough to fall out of the top 10, but the rest of the field has mostly handled its business – in some cases while dealing with key injuries...

The 2016-17 boys basketball season is upon us. Forty of the 47 Shore Conference teams open up their seasons on Friday night and most of those 47 teams are brimming with optimism heading into the season. And they should be. After all, over the last 10 years, eight different teams have won the Shore Conference Tournament championship and since 2010, there have been six different champions in six yea

Monday wrapped up another high school basketball season in N.J. and although the Shore Conference played its last official game more than a week ago, it was a strong overall season for the conference. The emergence of Mater Dei and Ranney lifted the entire talent level of the conference, giving the Shore a number of teams that could be considered among the 50 best in the state...

The Shore Conference Tournament is set to be seeded Sunday afternoon and after the cutoff came and passed on Saturday, there officially 29 teams in this year's field. More than the sheer number of teams that are actually in the field, the characteristic that stands out about this collection of teams is how many good teams there are...

1. Christian Brothers Academy (13-2, 8-0) Last Week: 1 At this point, there are two No. 1 teams in the Shore Conference. Two people could argue Mater Dei vs. CBA from sun-up until sun-down and resolve nothing. That’s not exactly a ringing endorsement for CBA as the No...

The second half of the division schedule is underway for most Shore Conference teams and the top 10 still somewhat resembles the same one that opened the season. CBA, Mater Dei, Manasquan and Rumson-Fair Haven are all still in the top five and Toms River North has been in the top five since the Holiday tournaments...