mats madness pool play schedules

We promised to post the schedules for this weekend's huge 64 team tournament up in Fresno, the 4th Annual "Mats' Madness" Tournament, sponsored by EBO and adidas, and true to form, Dennis Magro, who works tirelessly to put on this event (and others like the upcoming summer "War on the Floor" tournament hosted by Slymar HS), sent them to us yesterday afternoon. We can't vouch for the schedules as being absolutely, 100% correct, since there are always last minute changes with these things, but these are the Pool Play schedules for Saturday May 27, and Sunday May 28.

This is going to be a great tournament, and for those of you not traveling back to either Kentucky for the Nike Bluegrass or to North Carolina for the Bob Gibbons Tournament of Champions, this is the top tournament on the West Coast, and will feature most of the top rising juniors and seniors from California and other spots on the West Coast.

The tournament will consist of a 64 team pool play format for the first day and a half, featuring 16 separate pools of 4 teams each. Each team will play 3 pool games against teams in their pool. If you want to see the pool assignments, we've already posted those at this link. Pool play will start on Satuday, May 27, at 10:30 a.m. and will continue with the last game getting underway at 9:00 p.m. (so it should conclude at 10:30 p.m. Saturday). Each team will play two games on Saturday in pool play, and then another game on Sunday morning/early afternoon.

There will be a slam dunk contest at the tournament headquarters (Sunnyside HS) on Sunday at 3:00 p.m , and at that time, the brackets for the single-elimination pool will also be announced. There will be four separate 16 team single elimination brakcets (1st place Gold, 2nd place Silver, 3rd place Bronze & 4h place Platinum). The bracket seeding will be done on Sunday and announced between 3:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.

The first team listed is the home team (light uniforms); second team is the away and will wear dark uniforms. Here are the schedules by time, location and team.

Saturday	Sunnyside HS Main Gym	Sunnyside HS Auxiliary Gym	Washington Union HS Main Gym	Washington Union HS Auxiliary Gym
10: 30 a.m.	Alleycats Red v. Belmont West	805 #1 v. Pates	Hustlin Eatles v. BBT	Alleycats White v. Panthers
12:00 p.m.	EBO v. SG Bum Boys	CABC I v. ICH	NorCal Elite v. Monsters	Amer-I-Can #2 v. Oakland HS
1:30 p.m.	Double Pump v. HoopRidaz #2	IEBP Players v. Rockfish Marlins	LA Rockfish v. No Limits	805 #2 v. SF Heat
3:00 p.m.	Lodi #1 v. CBA	Oakland Soldiers I v. Wildcats	BAB #2 v. Capitol Crew	LA Palladins v. Folsom
4:30 p.m.	SG BB v. Alleycats Red	Pates v. CABC I	BBT v. NorCal Elite	Panthers v. Amer-I-Can #2
6:00 p.m.	Belmont West v. EBO	ICH v. 805 # 1	Monsters v. Hustlin' Eagles	Oakland HS v. Alleycats White
7:30 p.m.	CBA v. Double Pump AS	Rockfish Marlins v. Soldiers #1	Capitol Crew v. LA Rockfish	Folsom v. 805 #2
9:00 p.m.	HoopRidaz #2 v. Lodi #1	Wildcats v. IEBP Players	No Limits v. BAB #2	SF Heat v. LA Palladins

Edison HS, McLane HS, Central HS & Roosevelt HS Pool Play Games--Saturday, May 27

Saturday	Edison HS Main Gym	McLane HS Main Gym	Fresno Central HS Main Gym	Roosevelt HS Main Gym
10: 30 a.m.	IEBP Ballers v. Tigers	riverside North v. HoopRidaz I	IEBP All Stars v. Carls' Jr.	West Coast Academy v. Camp Exposure
12:00 p.m.	Rockfish Dolphins v. Belmont East	Next Level #1 v. Highlanders	Sac. Renegades v. CAL/NY	Rockfish Barracudas v. Lodi #2
1:30 p.m.	SSA #1 v. Modesto S&J #2	Inland v. Roughriders	Oakland Soldiers #2 v. SSA #2	Bay Area Ballers #1 .v EBO Alaska
3:00 p.m.	Rockfish Orcas v. CABC #2	Modesto S&J #1 v. Silicon BC	Amer-I-Can #1 v. Grizzlies	Next Level 2 v. Mo-Town Magic
4:30 p.m.	Tigers v. Rockfish Dolphins	Highlanders v. Riverside North	Carls Jr. v. Sac Renegades	Lodi #2 v. West Coast Academy
6:00 p.m.	Belmont East v. IEBP Ballers	Hoopridaz I v. Next Level I	CAL/NY v. IEBP All Stars	Camp Exposure v.Rockfish Barracudas
7:30 p.m.	CABC #2 v. SSA #1	Silicon BC v. Inland	SSA #2 v. Amer-ICan #1	Mo-Town Magic v. Bay Area Ballers #1
9:00 p.m.	Modesto S&J #2 v. Rockfish Orcas	Roughriders v. Modesto S&J #1	Grizzlies v. Oak. Soldiers #2	EBO Alaska v. Next Level #2

The schedules for Sunday's games include pool play in the morning and early afternoon, a 3:00 p.m. Slam Dunk contest, and then single elimination bracket games which will begin at 4:30 p.m. and continue until 9:00 p.m. that night. Here's the Sunday Schedules, again by gym location:

Sunday	Sunnyside HS Main Gym	Sunnyside HS Auxiliary Gym	Washington Union HS Main Gym	Washington Union HS Auxiliary Gym
9:00 a.m	Belmont West v. SG BB	ICH v. Pates	Monsters v. BBT	Oak Hot Shots v. Panthers
10: 30 a.m	EBO v. Alleycats Red	805 #1 v. CA BC #1	Hustlin Eagles v. NorCal Elite	Alleycats White v. Amer-I-Can #2
12:00 p.m.	Double Pump v. Lodie #1	Oak. Soldiers #1 v. IEBP Players	LA Rockfish v. Bay Area Ballers #2	LA Palladins v. 805 #2
1:30 p.m.	CBA v. HoopRidaz #2	Rockfish Marlins v. Wildcats	Capitol Crew v. No Limits	SF Heat v. Folson Pit Bulls
3:00 p.m.	Slam Dunk Contest @ Sunnyside HS--NOTE: Coaches Must Be Present; Tournament Brackets will be posted for Single Elimination Tournament
4:30 p.m.	Games at 4:30, 6:00, 7:30 & 9:00 p.m. --Gold, Silver, Bronze & Platinum Brackets--16 team single elimination tournaments @ all gym sites

Edison HS, McLane HS, Central HS & Roosevelt HS Pool Play Games--Sunday, May 28

Sunday	Edison HS Main Gym	McLane HS Main Gym	Fresno Central HS Main Gym	Roosevelt HS Main Gym
9:00 a.m	Belmont East v. Tigers	HoopRidaz v. Highlanders	CAL/NY v. Carls Jr.	Camp Exposure v. Lodi #2
10: 30 a.m	IEBP Ballers v. Rockfish Dolphins	Next Level #1 v. Riverside North	IEBP All Stars v. Sac. Renegades	Rockfish Barracudas v. West Coast Acad.
12:00 p.m.	SSA #1 v. Rockfish Orcas	Inland v. Modesto S&J #1	Amer-I-Can v. Oak. Soldiers #2	Bay Area Ballers #1 v. Next Level
1:30 p.m.	CABC #2 v. Modesto S&J #2	Silicon BC v. Roughridgers	SSA #2 v. Grizzlies	Mo-Town Magic v. EBO Alaksa

We'll post up the bracket assignments separately; basically, the first place team in each pool will enter the "Gold" Tournamnent bracket; the second place team will play in the Silver bracket; third place teams will compete for the Bronze Champinoship, and all 4th place teams will play in the Platinum bracket. Each tournament will have a separate championship game, and all four of those Championships will be held in different gyms at 3:30 p.m. on Monday afternoon, which will make it somewhat difficult to be in four places at once, particularly at locations which are fairly spread out.

All Gold Tournament games will be at Sunnyside HS.
All Silver Tournament games will be at Washington Union HS.
All Bronze Tournament games will be at Edison HS.
All Platinum Tournament games will be at McLane HS.

Again, we'll post up the brackets later (they will really be meaningless until the bracket assignments are made on Sunday afternoon. We can't promise an update at that time, but we'll try to find a telephone so we can hook up the laptop to bring you the latest. . . if not, everyone will just have to wait until we find the time. . . )

By the way, for coaches or players or others interested in the tournament bracket seeding process, here's the criteria that's supposed to be applied, at least according to the fax we got from Dennis Magro:

Now if your really interested in esoterica, here are the tournament rules, verbatim from the fax which Dennis sent us:

Lastly, a word about hotels and reservations. If you haven't yet made them, you'd better scramble, because most of the better hotels are already sold out.