Flames-Warriors @ Mars
Women: Norwoodd need to win and will comfortably.
Men: After what West did to the Warriors, I fear for what the Flames are going to do, Norwood by plenty, will be good to see Webber v Wilson though!

Tigers-North @ Siberia South
Women: Time for the Rockets to start peaking and after a good win last round will get the Tigers by over 10.
Men: Massive game, if Erik plays, Rockets will win, if he doesn't, it's a toss of the coin.

Sabres-Mavs @ The High School
Women: How will the hills girls respond to a loss to the Lions? Sabres easily.
Men: Won't be as big of a beating as many would expect, entertaining match up but Sturt will win by 20+

Lions-Panthers @ Siberia North
Women: The Lions winning streak will stop at one.
Men: Will be an intense, up tempo game, South have a big advantage inside if Carlin doesn't play but the Lions have the edge in the back court with Cioffi, Clarke, Atkins and Todd. Central to keep the playoff dream alive

Eagles-Bearcats @ Dogshow Hall
Women: If this game is half as good as the last time they met then it should be a ball tearer. Eagles in just a bit better form and West will suffer loss number two.
Men: After Spadavecchia couldn't finish the Eagles off last time, all the mental edge goes to Forestville and the Eagles will bring their A game for this one and get the points.

The Journo, Daniel Carlin has gone to the AIS did not play the last game for Centrals, in fact played SEABL for AIS Sat night vs Pioneers and doing so again this weekend in double road trip.

Thanks mavs, that is a huge loss for the Lions but all the best to Daniel.

it is a big loss but Andrew Bolton seems to have grabbed the opportunity with both hands, one game mind you but doubled his yearly minutes in that game.
and tripled his stats

Bolton has bolted out of the blocks

saucer of milk for 604, Meow!

Mavs had a NOT-so-long drive home, losing by 13 vs Sturt after the shock loss last week.

South beat Centrals.

Forestville beat West... is the dream start beginning to turn into a horror finish? West lacking form at the business end?

South Not that convincing vs Centrals



Big Match up next week. South vs North.

Norwood women 129 - 53 Woodville


Thats 76 pt Margin OMG!!!!!!!!!!!



When did a women's team last score 129????

North men and women won, Southern men now two games behind North.

Was it Centrals men or (gasp) women who won tonight?

Lions men beat South by 1pt.

Well thats a few games just in 2004, so I would expect that there has been higher score than 130 at some point.

Other mens results??


Any talk on eagles women beating west? how ? why?

Men results

Sturt over Mavs by 13
North over Southern by 18
Norwood over Woodville by 19
Eagles over West by 19
Lions over South by 1

Lions most men's wins in sometime, 2004 was 6, it is now 7 with 2 games to go.

Would suggest the final 5 is just about set. North (8 & 8) would need to be slaughtered at Marion next week for Lions (7 & 9) to get a sniff.
A win next week will seal the deal for the Rockets as a WW for the Lions will get the level of points, but Rockets finish on %.
Norwood, bouyed by the Coops signing, will be difficult for the plucky Lions to overcome at Marden next week. Another buzzer beater coming up?
Tigers (6 & 10) are out of finals action this season and can only look to pester the Feagles and the Bearcats in the remaining two games.

when two teams finish equal on win/loss it has nothing to do with %, it goes on head to head clashes. Centrals play north in the last game and all ready own the split by beating them at starplex, if they tie on win loss the Lions will take 5th.

for Lions to make it

they win win both of their last 2 (flames/rockets)

or if they drop the norwood hame and north drops south, the winner of the last game at Hillcrest takes 5th.

now that would be a sweet game of the week.

either way it may come down to the last game of the round Lions v Rockets for 5th spot.

wonder if Easy will play his week?

go panthers I say, love to see Lions beat North in the last week to finish 5th.

in the women now foleys playing there is a change of a three way tie. anyone now how they work out which two of hte three would get 4th and 5th ???#*!!!

Fiba rules and regulations

http://www.fiba.com/downloads/Rules/2008/OfficialBasketballRules2008.pdf

classification of teams page 68.

D.1.1 If there are two teams in the classification with equal points, the result(s) of the
game(s) between the two teams involved will be used to determine the placings.
D.1.2 If the points and the goal average in the games between the two teams are still the
same, the classification will be determined by the goal average of all the games
played in the group by each team.
D.1.3 If more than two teams are equal in the placing, a second classification will be
established, taking into account only the results of the games between the teams
that are tied.
D.1.4 If there are still teams tied after the second classification, then goal average will be
used to determine the placing, taking into account only the results of the games
between the teams still tied.
D.1.5 If there are still teams tied, the placing will be determined using the goal average
from the results of all their games played in the group.
D.1.6 If, at any stage, using the above criteria, a multiple team tie is reduced to a tie
involving only two teams, the procedure in D.1.1 and D.1.2 above will be applied.
D.1.7 If, at any stage, it is reduced to a tie still involving more than two teams, the
procedure, beginning with D.1.3 above, is repeated.
D.1.8 Goal average will always be calculated by division.

As south beat Norwood 2 times they will finish ahead of Norwood if the games are the same, If South beats north Norwood advance on head to head over north, if North beats south then North Advance on head to head over south

so for norwood to advance to finals south must beat north and the flames must beat centrals and the sabres

for north to advance to finals they must beat south and Centrals? (it think that is their opponent)

for south to advance they must win one of their games against North or woodville

Placings are in the air depending on results and scores

Is this the tightest season for a while?

Can't remember so many ifs and buts for ages.

Would be good if it got down to final games in both the mens and womens comps. It's healthy to have all teams of a similar strength - it's too boring if it was too predictable.

The key game will be North South, if North win (and they have been hot lately) then Norwood gets knocked out of finals, if that happens I doubt very much that Foley and Duke play round 18 with their upcoming WNBL committments, without Foley and Duke there is no chance that the young flames beat Sturt. If South beats North then Norwood is into finals and will most likely have Sturt in the first round as well as round 18.

This of course is dependant on a win in round 18 for South (vs. Woodville) and North (vs. Centrals)

if sturt lose their last 2 games and norwod win their last two games and they beat sturt by more than 13 norwood will get in

but if north lose one of their last 2 games they will also be tied with sturt and norwod (if the above occurs)

and if south lose their last two games and all the above happens then we will have a 4 way tie

interesting last two rounds

also if sturt beat west west will loose top stop assuming eagles keep winning

sorry did not read my loosery spelling above