Are you sure Ames was favored? Ames lost 3 games this year, 2 to M-Town. I would have called it even on a neutral floor.
Ames loses to Marshalltown in Substate.
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during the reg season... they only lost 2 and one coming from mtown.. and mtown had lost 4... so i think they were favored and they were the home team.. so ya..
There are only 48 teams in 4A, expand one more round and than .333% of the teams would make it to state.
It was at Ankeny a neutral floor, what difference does it make which color jersey you get to wear? Actually I felt AHS was favored also, losing in o.t. at M-town and handling them at home. I also think people on this board think just because AHS has Harry Barnes that AHS should be favored and win automatically which obviously is not true. I think AHS was favored but with the rivalry and past history it was by not much.
I actually do not have an opinion but for comparison in 4A girls track 24 qualify for some events (relays) at state thus 50%.
So you are saying that they should earn a trip to state by winning 2 games? Coming from a small school, I have always thought that the ease at which the big schools qualified for state devalued the acomplishment somewhat.
Let me tell you what it was like back in the day.....Nah. I won't bore you, but as a class A school we did have to win 6 games to reach state plus 3 more at state if we wanted to win it all.
Or should I tell you what I and others did to get an advantage to make it to state in my age? Nah, probably not a story you'd like to hear.
I can see it from both sides I too came from a 1A school and always thought it was easy for 4A schools to make it to state. Now that my kids are at AHS I see that in 4A every school is competitive to some extent and there is no easy ways to state, you are going to have to go thru someone to get there even though you do not have to play as many games. When I was in high school we made it to state and were not even tested all year until the substate round which is comparable to 4A and the team we played at substate was the same way.
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I grew up in Baxter in the seventies, but my dad always took us to the Bobcat games at the roundhouse, and it was always fun to see the M-Town vs. Ames games. They were definitely big time rivals back then.
Every team is in the tourney already in basketball. Teams know what they need to do to get to the round of 8 at state. There would be no time in 1 week to have another round of games. Every kid shouldn't have the opportunity to play at state, just like every kid shouldn't have the opportunity to play in the dome. It is for a select few and that's what makes it special.
big ups to waukee... first state tourney berth as 4-A school, in just their second year. upset DM Lincoln 57-53
Actually, I'll have to disagree. Downs (the current coach) was my football D-coord in HS and the man is sharp as I've seen when it comes to Xs and Os. His one downside would be he is not a great motivator.
Agreed. Big props to the Warriors, guys and girls, for making it to state. As a Waukee grad its great to see them making a splash in
4A so quickly.
The first half he was WAY off on shooting, but rebound well.
The second half he showed up and played his game. I think he only missed one shot the second half. With 10 seconds left in the game it looked as if he had hit the game winning shot to put Ames up by one (50-49).
On the night, Harrison easily had a double-double.
Another poster thought he looked like he was forcing it, but I thought he played within himself and played very unselfish- sometimes too unselfish and this was one of those times.
Overall very good game. Marshalltown played hard.
