modesto holiday hoops

As if there weren't enough tournaments going on in SoCal, there's yet another taking place in the Central Valley (well, it's actually in NorCal according to the CIF's magic dividing line) up in Modesto at Modesto Christian HS. The Modesto Holiday Hoops Classic will feature two days of pool play and then two more days of bracket play, a unique format where the pools are used to determine the seeding in the brackets. Here are the teams participating:

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C	Pool D
Bret Harte Fresno Central Inglewood	Brookside Christian San Jose Bellarmine Modesto Christian	Samuel Hancock Bakersfield Centennial Washington	Canyon Fresno Edison Long Beach Poly

We're not sure whether "Washington" is Fresno Washington Union (likely) or LA Washington (less likely, but possible), and Canyon we're assuming is Anaheim Canyon, but again we could be wrong about this one. There's no mistaking Inglewood or Long Beach Poly, and they will certainly be two of the favorites in this tournament. Inglewood's play has been spotty at best lately and in the Rim Rattler they struggled. Long Beach Poly is still searching for its rythym, looking to see which of the football players returning will fit. Both teams have been inconsistent at the point guard spot, Inglewood largely because of an injury to Jason McKinney (5'-11" Jr. PG) which we have heard may keep him out for the rest of the season, and Poly trying to get consistency from Isaiah Freeman (5'-11" Fr. PG) and Carlos Rivers (5'-11" Jr. PG), and not playing one other guard at all (Mike Washington (6'-0" Jr. PG).

We won't be up in Modesto for this tournament, so results will be spotty, but we can suggest either the Modesto Bee or NorCalPreps, and maybe even SacAreaHoops. . . of course, there's also the traditional sources for news on how a team is doing, i.e., the local newspapers for each team (e.g., the Long Beach Press-Telegram for LB Poly, etc). Of course, if someone up at the tournament is traveling with a computer, they are more than welcome to post the results on the message board or e-mail them to us. . .

Wed. 12/27
3:30 p.m.	Bret Harte v. Central
5:00 p.m.	Canyon v. Edison
6:30 p.m.	Samuel Hancock v. Centennial
8:00 p.m.	Modesto Christian v. Brookside Christian
Thurs. 12/28
9:00 a.m.	Washington v. Samuel Hancock
10:30 a.m.	Bellarmine v. Brookside Christian
12:00 p.m.	Inglewood v. Bret Harte
1:30 p.m.	LB Poly v. Canyon
3:00 p.m.	Centennial v. Washington
4:30 p.m.	Central v. Inglewood
6:00 p.m.	Edison v. LB Poly
7:30 p.m.	Modesto Christian v. Bellarmine

Based on the seedings from pool play here's what the bracket play will look like:

Sat. 12/30	Sat. 12/30	Fri.12/29	Fri.12/29	Sat.12/30
Winner G9 G13 Fifth Place 4:00 p.m. Winner G 10	Loser G1 G9 10:00 a.m. Loser G2	1st Pool A G1 10:00 a.m. 2nd Pool C	Winner G1 G7 7:00 p.m. Winner G2	Winner G7 G15 7:30 p.m. Championship Winner G8
		1st Pool B G2 11:30 a.m. 2nd Pool D
	Loser G3 G10 11:30 a.m. Loser G4	1st Pool C G3 1:00 p.m. 2nd Pool A	Winner G3 G8 8:30 p.m. Winner G4
		1st Pool D G4 2:30 p.m. 2nd Pool B
				Loser G7 G14 5:30 p.m. Third Place Loser G8
Consolation Bracket
Loser G5 Sat. 12/30 1:00 p.m. G11 Loser G6		3rd Pool A G5 4:00 p.m. 3rd Pool C	Winner G5 Sat. 12/30 2:30 p.m. G12 Winner G6
		3rd Pool B G6 5:30 p.m. 3rd Pool D

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What:	Modesto Holiday Hoops Classic
Where:	Modesto Christian HS
When	December 27-30, 2000 Wednesday-Saturday
Who:	12 Top HS teams from all over California