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1. Christian Brothers Academy (10-2, 6-0) Last Week: 1 The Colts made a pretty profound statement this past week by beating Middletown North, Middletown South and Bergen Catholic by at least 25 points each, including Saturday’s dismantling of a Bergen Catholic team ranked in the NJ...

In most years, it doesn’t take long for the basketball season to make mincemeat of the preseason Top 10. This season, the preseason Top 10 has held up pretty well, with only and injury to Brendan Barry throwing a major wrench into the preseason installment...

The Holiday Tournament scene is always a fun one and we learned quite a bit about a lot of the teams in the Shore Conference from the five days of games spanning from Saturday to Wednesday. With that said, in the grand scheme of things, we haven’t learned much...

As Brendan Barry rained threes on Christian Brothers Academy at the Monmouth Activities and Athletics Center and Rumson pulled away for a stunning rout of the top-seeded Colts in the Shore Conference Tournament final last year, the Shore Conference entered the height of an age of parity in the history of its tournament...

For since this writer can remember, there is no sure answer to the question, “Who is the No. 1 team in the Shore for the past season?” Typically, the Shore Conference Tournament hashes that out, but a No. 11 seed won the tournament while the No. 1 s...

The Shore Conference Tournament is a little more than a week away, which means we are a little more than a week away from figuring out what in the world is going on in this year’s Shore Conference. It’s not unusual for a few teams to have a claim to the No...

With less than two weeks until the Shore Conference Tournament seeding meeting, it appears that there is guaranteed to be a spirited debate for the top seed, as well as for each of the next seven spots. There is still no clear No. 1 team in the conference, and this week, a familiar name returns to the No...

There is a case to be made that the No. 1 ranking has been up for debate over the last couple of weeks, but this is the first week that the preseason No. 1 team lost a game to a Shore Conference team and made this a real argument. With Christian Brothers Academy’s loss to Freehold Township on Friday, the Colts join the rest of the field as teams with some good results mixed in with at least some d

At some point every year, ranking the top teams in the Shore Conference requires one to discount head-to-head results to a degree and just focus on the overall results. Admittedly, I am a week late in recognizing that and the latest week of madness is a good lesson that when there are a lot of similar teams in a given landscape, teams will sometimes lose to lesser teams...

The Shore Conference Tournament is getting closer and yet, answers to the tough top 10 questions are farther out of reach than they have been all season. While no team has emerged as an obvious contender to knock off CBA, the Shore’s preseason No...

It’s just about time to ring in a new year, and that means ripping up the preseason top 10 and starting over. While this week’s Top 10 has a new look, there is still some stability thanks to the Shore’s No. 1 team and a scattered number of preseason Top 10 teams who have handled their business...

The high school basketball season tips off statewide and Shore-wide Friday, with 44 of the 47 Shore Conference teams taking the court for opening-night action. Shore Sports Network has a preview of each division and an overall preseason top 10 to open the year, complete with players to watch and stories to follow as the season gets under way...