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Hoops Heating Up: Daily Sports Digest, Jan. 31, 2012

See what your local student athletes—and their biggest supporters—are up to.

Welcome to Patch's daily snapshot of sports in Pleasantville and Briarcliff Manor.

Girls hoops bracketology

For years bracketology has become a mainstay in the months leading up to college basketball's March Madness and now it has reached high school, thanks to MSG Varsity's Kevin Devaney Jr.

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Bracketology is foreshadowing where a team's seed will be in the postseason, using the various formulas the powers that be use to decide each team's fate.

Currently, Devaney has, if the season ended today, Briarcliff's and Pleasantville's girls basketball squads as the No. 6 and No. 15 seeds in the Class B tournament.

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To see Devaney's entire bracket, click on MSG Varsity

Boys hoop poll

Pleasantville and Briarcliff's boys basketball squads continue to hold positions in the latest LoHud Varsity Insider Poll.

Pleasantville is No. 5 and Briarcliff No. 7 in the Small Schools Top 10 and Pleasantville is No. 4 and Briarcliff No. 6 in the Class B rankings.

For the complete rankings, see Josh Thomson's post on the Insider.

Pleasantville youth hoops

Pleasantville won a thriller, 20-18 on Jan. 27 against Scarsdale, in the boys fifth grade A division of the Tri-County Basketball League.

 

On tap today:

 and :

No games scheduled.

Source: http://sportspakdb.lhric.org

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