Schedules, ground rules as Sweet 16 gets started
The Sweet 16 weekend of Delco Madness is about to begin. By Monday, the mythical boys and girls tournaments to determine the best high school basketball teams in Delaware County history will be down to two Final Fours.
Here are some tournament ground rules:
• As in the NCAA Tournaments, all rounds are single elimination.
• Doubleheaders will be played at neutral sites. The No. 1 seed in each tournament shall be scheduled to play close to home.
• The current 3-point line will be in effect for all games, even if teams from the pre-3-point era are playing each other. That will give earlier teams the opportunity, at long last, to show that their players would have shot well from distance.
• Referees will be from New Jersey, eliminating the perceived risk of bias from regular officials from certain leagues.
• The higher-seeded team will be considered the home team.
BOYS
• Noon, at Neumann University: No.10 Haverford School
(2019) vs. No. 7Chester (1983)
• 2:30, at Neumann University: No. 2DarbyColwyn (1963) vs. No.
15Bonner (1983)
• 6p.m., at Widener: No. 8Carroll (2009) vs. No. 9 Chester (1967)
• 8:30at Widener: No.
16TCA (1992) vs. No. 1 Chester (2012)
• 4:30p.m., at Finneran Pavilion: No. 6Penn Wood (2009) vs. No. 11 Haverford (1958)
• 7p.m., at Finneran Pavilion: No. 14 Darby
Township (1967) vs. No. 3Chester (2008)
• 5p.m., at Cheyney University: No. 12 Darby-Colwyn (1972) vs. No. 5Chester
(2005)
• 7:30p.m., at Cheyney University: No. 4 Chester (1989) vs. No.
13 Yeadon (1953
GIRLS
IN THE DAILY TIMES
• The boys tournament will open Friday, with results hitting delcotimes.com and papreplive.com late Friday night and in the Saturday Daily Times.
• The girls tournament will start Saturday, with results hitting delcotimes.com and papreplive.com late Saturday and the Sunday Daily Times.
• The Elite Eight games for both tournaments will unfold Sunday for publication in the Monday Daily Times.
The boys Elite Eight will meet Sunday at Hagan Arena at Saint Joseph’s University. The girls Elite Eight will play Sunday at the Palestra. Schedules will be printed in the Daily Times. Both Final Fours will be played at the Wells Fargo Center the following weekend.
Keep those bracket sheets handy.
• 11a.m., at Swarthmore: No. 10Collingdale
(1979) vs. No. 7Carroll
(2012)
• 1:30p.m., at Swarthmore: No. 2 O’Hara
(1993) vs. No. 15Notre Dame (1992)
• 5:30p.m., at Jake
Nevin Field House: No.
8Penncrest (1978) vs. No. 9O’Hara (1997)
• 8p.m., at Jake Nevin Field House: No. 16 Garnet Valley (2019) vs. No. 1Carroll (1979)
• 4p.m., at Cabrini: No.
6O’Hara (1969) vs. No.
11Carroll (2019)
• 6:30, at Cabrini: No.
14Prendergast (1985) vs. No. 3Darby-Colwyn
(1976)
• 4:30p.m., at Haverford College: No. 12 O’Hara vs. No. 5Nether Providence (1983)
• 7p.m., at Haverford College: No. 4Carroll
(2009) vs. No. 13 Chester (1981)