The Maine Basketball Rankings Podcast

It's the 50th Anniversary of Foxcroft Academy's sole Gold Ball, a championship covered by a young sports reporter who was discovered in the grocery store, of all places. 50 years later, Dave Albee has written the definitive book on the subject. He joins me to talk about the process behind his book and share stories from that by-gone era.

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This week we had not 1, not 2, but 3 incidents of fans getting ejected from games, which is awful. What are we even doing? And how do we stop it?

Just two weeks after snapping a 122-game losing streak, Wiscasset fired their girls basketball coach in a bizarre move. Then, the results of a Mr. & Miss Basketball straw poll and an update of the top 10.

This week, the Windham/Falmouth game was a classic, I go into reclassification a little, summarize some highlights from the week, and update the power rankings!

Some said the Lincoln Academy/Spruce Mountain boys game wasn't a good fit for Game of the Day, but they were wrong. Lincoln won on a jumper by EJ Hunt with 0.7 seconds left, but there was controversy. I dig into that, celebrate the Wiscasset girls' historic win, and go over the new Top 10 in the Power Rankings.

This season, Adam Robinson made the lucrative move from sports reporter to JV basketball coach at St. Dom's. We talk about that, the things he learned, the surprising things about the first month, and which chairs make for the best Bobby Knight moments.

Plus: can we stop fighting in the stands? What are we doing?

The Tourney Odds are one of the most popular features on the site and they're back! Find out if your team is IN, OUT, or has work to do.

Also, let's take a look at the football play in the Camden/Medomak game, the updated top 10, and more.

This week Windham beat Cheverus in a thriller in front of a packed house. On Saturday, Oxford Hills blew out Brunswick, but the Dragons were missing 4 starters.

But the big story Saturday was the two dunk technicals, both of which were pretty soft. It's not a great look.

Then, I go over the top 10 boys and girls teams in the Power Rankings.

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I've got your first look at the reclassification plan for the next two seasons.

Every two years we go through this whole cloak-and-dagger thing where I'm getting what seems like state secrets sent to me anonymously and I've got to try and verify it and that's an adventure and there's hand-written notes and it's a whole thing. And every two years I make the joke that the MPA could just send it to me directly, since I'm going to get it anyway. This year, they just sent it to me.

The Easton fans got rowdy during their blowout win over Ashland and then they wanted people to pretend it didn't happen, which is never a good thing. Plus, we're a week into the season, so it's time to start looking at the power rankings.