SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ–At the beginning of this season, it wasn’t anticipated that GMC Hoops would have seen this many games at this point in the season, but it has been done. As of Thursday night, when the web site traveled out to East Brunswick High School to take in the Championship Game of the 2008 E.B./GMC JV Tournament between fifth seeded Bishop Ahr, and second seeded Cardinal McCarrick, it was the 90th game covered by the site this year.
If you take a look at the GMC Hoops Trophy page, you will see that the web site has covered 26 of the 29 member schools at least twice this season with 20 of those teams seen at least three times. In addition, GMC Hoops has covered eight regular season games at both the Freshmen and JV levels in addition to solid coverage of both of the respective tournaments. Last season, the web site covered a record 96 games including all four of the public state finals for the first time ever. The year before, the site covered 87 games.
In addition to the abundance of coverage of high school basketball this season, the web site has also covered seven college games and nine scrimmages involving GMC teams in the pre-season. There was also some football coverage for the first time ever as GMC Hoops became GMC Gridiron for the state playoffs and Thanksgiving Day games. All time, the web site has seen a total of 607 high school hoops games. Add the seven college games and six high school football games, and you have a grand total of 620 contests seen since the inception of the web site.