Lysander

Roncalli is an entirely different beast than they were early in the season.

Weird….

MaxPreps has that score reversed.

I grew up nearby and much prefer the chicken at the Brau Haus.

Unless HH spoils the show for Roncalli, I’m giving odds that the State Championship game will feature the two teams that opened the season against one another: Dwenger v Roncalli.

Agreed. Chatard and Roncalli are effectively .500 against each other over the entirety of their history. Makes it hard to get the needed points to stay up if they are always paired in the same 4A Sectional. To be clear, I don’t want Chatard to be in 3A and I’ve said as much for years…..nobody does including the IHSAA. It’s part of the reason we have a success factor at all…..but the IHSAA just can’t resist putting all the Catholics in the same Sectional whenever and wherever possible. Btw, it’s entirely possible Cathedral, Chatard and Roncalli ALL end up in the same 4A Sectional 3 years from now if Cathedral can’t get past New Pal next year.

Yes…..unfortunately. They only earned 1 point last year and none this year.

Well….you called it. Yep. Congrats…..total domination. Good luck the rest of the season.

Yes.

Hard to say but I doubt it. He completely tore the ACL back in the 1st game against Brebeuf (I believe) so he’s played a lot of ball since then. With that, even with inconsistent play, as a team, they’ve proven talented enough to later make up for it - with the exception of Cincy Elder who was just that good. I just don’t think they can afford to be inconsistent against this much improved late season Roncalli team who will make them pay for it.

I can’t speak to Mississinewa but, by all appearances, Sectional and Regional look like speed bumps for Gibson Southern….admittedly, Semi State could be interesting for them. As in most years, I’m definitely favoring the South to win it all.

On average, I think Roncalli has been playing playing better ball than Chatard for the last several weeks…..they definitely appear to be more consistent. Chatard seems to be playing to the level of the competition as often as not recently (admittedly, I think Chatard was VERY guilty of looking towards Roncalli during the Brebeuf game last Friday). Both MaxPreps and Sags (although I REALLY have some question about Sags this season) have this as #1 v #2 in 4A much like the Chatard/New Pal Regional last year (yes, I know many favor HH but it appeared they had a lot more difficulty v. an average Reitz team last week than I would have anticipated….I’m just not as high on them as I was). Whatever happens on Friday, it DEFINITELY won’t look like the 31-10 game Chatard won in Week 2.

Well…..he managed to lose to Brebeuf. That’s quite an accomplishment.

I was thinking exactly the same about Noblesville under Sharpe. I know many seemed to hate it from the day he came on board and I remember some opposing fans making fun of it but Noblesville was legitimately competing more closely in games…despite the final W/L. Couldn’t agree more.

Ok, I’ll beat this drum again. It’s absurd that one of the quite likely two best teams in 3A will be turning in their equipment on the second week of playoffs instead of potentially meeting in Lucas Oil after Thanksgiving. I get the issues surrounding state-wide seeding but at least seed the top 2-4 teams in the Sectionals.