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[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Rich

Our JV is actually JV in the state to the north. For most schools, it's the level right below varsity.

Anything other than varsity is usually hired by the schools here. And what they get as far as officials go runs the gamut. Leagues only assign varsity contests here. Officials associations usually don't assign games.

That all sounds like personalized classifications that only mean something really to the schools.

They play sophomore games here before the varsity. Those are the kids that will become varsity players in the next year if they stay on the program and progress. JV is usually played on Saturday mornings where a few of the varsity bench players and sometimes a sophomore team player or two might play as well to get more playing time or playing time with better players. Freshman teams will just have freshman teams and often have an A and a B team depending on the size of the school. All those games are typically assigned by the assignor of the conference. Schools or ADs do not want to be bothered with that duty so they give it to the assignor. It is not unusual to get some of the same people to work that level in a conference if they live in the area as the games often are earlier in the night than varsity games.

And with the big schools, they can play 2 freshman games in a field house or auxiliary gym, one sophomore in the main gym before the varsity all in the same night. I have worked one of the freshman games as a fill in before a varsity game in an emergency because someone could not show up at the last minute. But usually that means 7 officials are needed for a single night of basketball in conference for sure in many conferences in this area.

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[Rich]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

That all sounds like personalized classifications that only mean something really to the schools.

Yup. Same thing as you have in Illinois. Classifications that only mean something in your area.

[so cal lurker]

Originally Posted by Rich

Yup. Same thing as you have in Illinois. Classifications that only mean something in your area.

Around here, as I understand it (though some may be league specific), we have Varsity and JV, and many schools have Freshman. Varsity is, well, varsity. Freshman, kinda self explanatory. JV is pretty competitive and schools handle differently. Some schools limit to sophomores and freshman (with, perhaps, an occasional special case for a junior) on the theory that if you haven't made varsity by junior year, it just ain't gonna happen. Others have a handful of juniors. I'm pretty sure the rule is that players can't go down levels in the same season -- you can come up from JV to V, but if you do, you're done playing with JV (and same for Frosh/JV). As best I can tell (I'm a Dad not a hoops ref), JV and frosh get a two-man team and varsity get a three-man crew.

[crosscountry55]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

JV is usually played on Saturday mornings where a few of the varsity bench players and sometimes a sophomore team player or two might play as well to get more playing time or playing time with better players.

When I was in high school in Southeast WI in the late 90s, we used the much sexier term, "Varsity Reserve" for this. Do they still call it that anywhere?

[BillyMac]

Pretty simple here in Connecticut. If one is good enough to play varsity, they play varsity. If not, and they're not a freshman, they play junior varsity. If not, and they are a freshman, they play on the freshman team.

Some prep schools use fancier names for subvarsity games: seconds, thirds.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Pretty simple here in Connecticut. If one is good enough to play varsity, they play varsity. If not, and they're not a freshman, they play junior varsity. If not, and they are a freshman, they play on the freshman team.

Some prep schools use fancier names for subvarsity games: seconds, thirds.

I'm glad it is simple here. Varsity, JV, and middle school. That's it, 3 levels of public school ball. 8th graders in middle school are allowed to moved up to their future HS's JV team.

Private schools have V, JV, JJV.