CHSAA boys basketball will have a slightly new look – and a new schedule – during the 2012-13 season, league chairman Paul Gilvary confirmed with The Post on Monday night.
Headlining the changes will be a move up to Class AA for Iona Prep as All Hallows moves down to Class A. Moore Catholic will also move up to ‘AA’ on Staten Island, switching spots with Monsignor Farrell, which will now be ‘A.’ Like last year, the alignment was put together by a ranking system voted on by league coaches.
“The way that we want to look at it is, nothing is ever set in stone,” Gilvary said. “This year is this year. What we felt was that the changes made worked out wonderfully last year. All three divisions were thrilled with it. I think it benefited the ‘AA’, the ‘A’ and the ‘B.’”
Denis Gostev
Iona Prep will be up in CHSAA Class AA next year after winning the 'A' city and state titles this past season.
Nazareth goes from Class B to ‘A,’ along with Salesian. The CHSAA ‘B’ league will now just have five teams.
Iona Prep won the CHSAA Class A city and state titles this past season and Nazareth did the same in the ‘B.’ Moore Catholic went to the ‘A’ city semifinals and Salesian went to the ‘B’ semis after winning the title in 2010-11.
Another big change came in the ‘AA’ schedule.
This past season, Brooklyn/Queens teams only played Archdiocesan teams in league play with a similar ranking based on the coaches’ vote. For instance, Christ the King was ranked No. 1 in Brooklyn/Queens in the preseason and only played St. Raymond and Cardinal Hayes of the Archdiocesan, the top two ranked teams.
That will no longer be the case next year. Each team will play its diocesan rivals twice and play teams from the other diocese once. Only the Archdiocese will play the Staten Island teams, though, and just once, giving them 18 league games. Brooklyn/Queens will play 16 league games.
“That was just to get it off the ground,” Gilvary said of the format this past season. “The coaches overwhelmingly want to play everyone.”
Here’s how the alignment will look:
CLASS AA
Brooklyn/Queens
Archbishop Molloy
Bishop Loughlin
Christ the King
Holy Cross
St. Francis Prep
Xaverian
New York Archdiocese
Archbishop Stepinac
Cardinal Hayes
Fordham Prep
Iona Prep
Mount St. Michael
St. Raymond
Staten Island
Moore Catholic
St. Peter’s
CLASS A
Brooklyn/Queens
Bishop Ford
Monsignor McClancy
Nazareth
St. Edmund Prep
St. John’s Prep
New York Archdiocese
All Hallows
Cardinal Spellman
LaSalle
Regis
Salesian
Xavier
Staten Island
Monsignor Farrell
St. Joseph by the Sea
CLASS B
Blessed Sacrament
Cathedral Prep
Monsignor Scanlan
Sacred Heart
St. Agnes
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