Originally posted by Dacocks23:
In the words of Chris Carter.....Come on man! I know Im biased but lets look at this objectively. Lake Marion played one 4a team all year, one! AND LOST, to sumter by 5. A sumter team that lost by 10 to goose creek, we all saw what Irmo did to Goose Creek on friday. Irmo has played about 15 games against teams better than Sumter this year. Further proof, Irmo scrimmaged Sumter (i know scrimmages can be deceiving) but both teams had all their football players there. Irmo won by 57 (in 8 quarters). Irmo has way more size, more college players, and experience. Max preps rankings have Irmo number one in the state 17th in the country, Lake Marion is ranked 9th in the state, 820 in the country. Those rankings are computer based. I know they are rankings but they are objective. IMO there are about 6-7 teams in 4a better than Lake Marion. Congrats on your championship but lets be real here.
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First of all I'm just asking a question to see what unbiased basketball people think and just for the record I think Irmo would only win because of Coach Whipple. Besides the strength of schedule, I don't think most of the things you pointed out are factors in Irmo's favor at all. Obviously you have not seen Lake Marion play because they actually have more size than Irmo. They have 9 players 6'4 and over and they have 2 seniors who will be playing college ball next year with 3 underclassmen being recruited. When they played Sumter early in the season they were without Mike Williams who was playing in a Football all-star game in Texas. Thats like asking Irmo to go undefeated without Mckie. I don't put much emphasis on polls because games are won on the court. I agree that Irmo's schedule was much stronger and I give them the edge because of the kind of program that Whipple runs but I think this game would be a lot closer than you think.
This post was edited on 3/4 11:59 PM by princeg