This was something I wrote about last year, and I was very circumspect about the number of regular season basketball tournaments in the state and the effect their abundance was having.
So after all was said and done ...
Welcome to The Lady Jaguars Tournament!
Just check out the following matchups:
First round
Bernalillo (a Class AAAA school) vs. Questa (AA)
Monte del Sol (AA) vs. Taos ( AAAA).
Don't those send a thrill down your spine! What purpose does this serve? And how does this help Bernalillo and Taos? If they find themselves battling for one of the last spots in the AAAA state tournament, how will those games affect their chances? They could dash the Lady Spartans' or the Lady Tigers' chances of making it into the 16-team bracket.
And what do we have here? The Brian Gallegos Shootout in Las Vegas, N.M., with ... six teams!
The number of tournaments that northern teams are competing in this week is eight. Also, 32 Albuquerque teams - 16 each for boys and girls - are taking part in the Albuquerque Metro Tournament, which used to be the APS Invitational. Such a monstrosity takes all of the city schools out of the equation for any other tournament this weekend, so you can eliminate about 22 percent of the big schools (AAA and above).
One casualty succumbed to the tournament frenzy, at least for this year. Moriarty's Bruce King Invite, which would have been next week, was suspended because the school could not find enough teams for it. The Alice King Invite will continue, as will 26 other boys and girls tournament next week.
Do you think that's enough?
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