By CLAIRE CRUZ, Staff Writer
The Brownsville ISD boys and girls basketball tournaments tip off today, and there’s an exciting three days of competition in store as teams from across the Rio Grande Valley participate.
The girls bracket features 24 teams divided into eight pools. Each team will play two pool games today, with contests starting at 8 a.m. and the final slate of games tipping off at 8 p.m. Five courts will be used across Brownsville Hanna and Brownsville Pace high schools.
Teams will play one warmup game early Friday before beginning bracket play. Squads will be split into platinum (top seeds), gold (second seeds) and silver (third seeds) brackets based on pool play results and will each play one bracket game Friday afternoon.
On Saturday, the silver bracket gets the action started at 8 a.m., and the silver bracket championship game is scheduled for 11 a.m. at the Hanna auxiliary. Gold bracket teams will begin at 9:30 a.m., and the championship game will be played at 2 p.m. at Hanna’s “B” gym.
The platinum bracket games start at 11 a.m. Saturday, and the championship contest is scheduled for 2 p.m. at Hanna’s main gym.
Brownsville Hanna, Harlingen High JV and Brownsville Jubilee make up Pool A. Pool B is comprised of Brownsville Lopez, Edinburg Vela and Donna IDEA. Pool C includes Brownsville Pace, San Perlita and Santa Rosa. Port Isabel, Progreso and PSJA High are in Pool D.
Pool E features Brownsville Porter, Rio Hondo and Edinburg Harvest. Brownsville Rivera, Brownsville Veterans Memorial JV and McAllen Rowe will compete in Pool F. Pool G is made up of Brownsville IDEA Riverview, Los Fresnos and Lyford. Brownsville St. Joseph, McAllen High and Mission IDEA are in Pool H.
The boys BISD basketball tournament features 16 teams split into four pools and will follow a similar schedule as the girls.
Pool play for the boys begins at 8 a.m. today, with the final slate of games tipping off at 5 p.m. Two courts each at Hanna and Pace will be utilized. Boys teams will play two pool games today and one Friday before beginning seeded bracket play Friday evening.
Teams will be split into platinum and gold brackets based on pool play. Saturday bracket games begin at 8 a.m. and will be played at Hanna, Porter and Pace.
The gold bracket championship game is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. at the Hanna auxiliary, and the platinum bracket championship game will be played at 3:30 p.m. at Hanna’s main gym.
Brownsville Hanna, Brownsville Jubilee, Port Isabel and Brownsville Porter will compete in Pool A. Pool B is made up of Brownsville Rivera, Edinburg Economedes, PSJA Southwest and Mission Veterans Memorial. Pool C features Brownsville Pace, San Benito, Brownsville St. Joseph and North Mission IDEA. Brownsville Veterans Memorial, McAllen Rowe, Brownsville Lopez and Mission High make up Pool D.