My middle school season started bak on Septmeber 18th and marks my 25th year in basketball.
Most of our local middle schools merged with an adjoining league, so we are trying to adjust to the new rules. The biggest differences being:
(1) We now have a single 7th grade game and a single 8th grade game. No more A & B teams.
(2) We now play 5 periods. First half is three 4:00 periods where every player must appear at least once in the first half (barring injury, etc) and that no player can appear in more than 3 periods.
Yesterday we traveled to a (new to us) team in our new league that only has black uniforms that they wear home and away. I sure hope nobody else in our league wears black road jersies or that will be a disaster waiting to happen.
Also, yesterday, my friend got his first direct T in his MS coaching career. He went almost 3+1/3 seasons without one, so I'm impressed.
In terms of interesting scores so far, our 7th grade team won a game 28-3 Tuesday and then lost Thursday, 11-8.