MPSSAA boys’ basketball playoff preview: Complete team-by-team and region breakdown

Freshman point guard Rahim Ali looks to guide Baltimore Poly to its first ever basketball state championship. Photo by Troy Queen.

The high school winter sports season can be a tiring trek.

It lasts from late November to the beginning of March. And if you account offseason workout programs, it’s even longer.

Take a moment and pat yourself on the back, because the playoffs are less than a week away. After two and a half months of high school basketball in the books, and hustling around the state to scout the region’s top talent, it’s time to break down what’s been uncovered and look into the crystal ball as the postseason is on the horizon.

In each classification I’ve predicted a state champion, regional contenders and darkhorses and with my regional champion I added confidence scale to gauge the certainty.

 

Confidence scale

4 — Let’s just say I’d be stunned if this team didn’t win their region

3 — Likely to make it out of the region, but slippage and/or losing to a contender wouldn’t be shocking

2 — Contenders are right on their heels; one hiccup could be detrimental

1 — Complete toss-up. Someone has to make it out of each region, so why not them? 

 

Without further ado, let the in-depth playoff preview content begin.

 

PAGE 2 — CLASS 4A

PAGE 3 — CLASS 3A (coming soon)

PAGE 4 — CLASS 2A (coming soon)

PAGE 5 — CLASS 1A (coming soon)

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Kyle McFadden is a graduate from Linganore High's Class of 2014 and is a sports enthusiast. He got his start as a sports writer in January 2014 for LHS's student newspaper The Lance where he wrote 13 articles. McFadden then launched his own blog in October 2014 called The Beltway Dispatch covering collegiate, local high school, and professional sports. Formally known as The Beltway Dispatch, McFadden and Evan Engelhard merged each other's respective platforms in June 2015 to make what is now Maryland Sports Access. He brings plenty of sports knowledge to the helm of MSA as he has baseball, basketball and golf experience. McFadden covers a wide variety of sports in football, baseball, basketball, golf, hockey, lacrosse, soccer and specializes in the collegiate and high school level's. McFadden is volunteers his time at Damascus Road Community Church -- serving as a mentor to the youth, basketball coach at the varsity and junior varsity levels, and leads a small group of high school sophomores every Wednesday night. Although he has only been around journalism since January 2014, his work has appeared in Maryland newspapers such as The Daily Times (Delmarva Now), The Hometown Observer, Germantown Pulse, and regularly in the The Frederick News-Post. He's also won two Frederick News-Post Mike Powell Excellence in Journalism awards and has appeared on The Best of SNO, which showcases top student work of high school and college journalists. McFadden also holds positions at The Frederick News-Post as a freelance sports journalist, DMVelite as a high school basketball writer and analyst, MocoFootball.com as a Maryland high school football analyst, and as a staff writer for Maryland's Yahoo! Rivals. McFadden currently studies at Frederick Community College and plans to transfer to the University of Maryland in the fall of 2017 to work on a bachelor's degree in business and journalism as he has aspirations to be a columnist for ESPN.
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