The St. Thomas Aquinas girls’ basketball team will be the No. 1 seed in the upcoming Greater Middlesex Conference girls’ basketball tournament, while the Trojan boys will be the top seed on the boys’ side. The Red Division Champs were chosen by the seeding committee Thursday morning at the annual gathering at Spotswood High School.
On the girls’ side, Monroe, which split with Aquinas but had a second division loss, picked up the second seed, while Colonia, which won the White Division title this year for its first-ever division title, was third.
Old Bridge was awarded the fourth seed, followed by East Brunswick, Blue Division Champion Middlesex in sixth, South Brunswick seventh, and Gold champ Woodbridge Academy 8th. Seeding rules call for all four division champions to be seeded among the top eight, which get byes through the play-in and preliminary rounds to the round of 16.
On the boys’s side, the top eight seeds went to the White Division champ Aquinas, Red Division winner St. Joseph-Metuchen – which Aquinas beat head-to-head – Colonia and Monroe fourth. In fifth is South Brunswick, followed by Edison, Blue Division winner South Plainfield and Timothy Christian, which has at least a share of the Gold, but has not completed its division schedule yet.
Rounding out the top 16 are Piscataway ninth, followed by South River, East Brunswick and JP Stevens. The 13th team is Old Bridge, followed by Sayreville, Spotswood and Middlesex.
The boys’ seeding continues. Follow us on twitter @CJSportsRadio for live updates all morning long.
Below are the full girls’ matchups for the tournament through the first round (round of 16):
- #17 JFK vs. #2 Wardlaw-Hartridge (winner at #16 Sayreville, winner at #1 St. Thomas Aquinas)
- #18 South Plainfield vs. #31 Carteret (winner at #15 Piscataway, winner at #2 Monroe)
- #19 Metuchen vs. #30 Perth Amboy Tech (winner at #14 Edison, winner at #3 Colonia)
- #20 Calvary Christian vs. #29 New Brunswick (winner at #13 Spotswood, winner at #4 Old Bridge)
- #21 Highland Park vs. #28 South Amboy (winner at #12 JP Stevens, winner at #5 East Brunswick)
- #22 Perth Amboy vs. #27 Piscataway Tech (winner at #11 South River, winner at #6 Middlesex)
- #23 Mother Seton vs. #26 Timothy Christian (winner at #10 Woodbridge, winner at #7 South Brunswick)
- #24 Somerset Tech vs. Dunellen (winner at #9 North Brunswick, winner at #8 Woodbridge Academy)
The girls’ play-in rounds are this Friday or Saturday. The preliminary round is next Monday, followed by the first round on Wednesday. All those rounds are at higher seeds. The quarterfinals will be at Middlesex County College in Edison on Saturday, February 19th. The semifinals will be at Monroe on Tuesday, February 22nd, with the finals there on Friday, the 25th at 6 pm before the boys’ championship at 8 pm.
Below are the full boys’ matchups for the tournament through the first round (round of 16):
- #17 Perth Amboy vs. #32 Dunellen (winner at #16 Middlesex, winner at #1 St. Thomas Aquinas)
- #18 New Brunswick vs. #31 Somerset Tech (winner at #15 Spotswood, winner at #2 St. Joseph-Metuchen)
- #19 Metuchen vs. #30 Piscataway Tech (winner at #14 Sayreville, winner at #3 Colonia)
- #20 Woodbridge vs. #29 East Brunswick Tech (winner at #13 Old Bridge, winner at #4 Monroe)
- #21 North Brunswick vs. #28 JFK (winner at #12 JP Stevens, winner at #5 South Brunswick)
- #22 Wardlaw-Hartridge vs. #27 Carteret (winner at #11 East Brunswick, winner at #6 Edison)
- #23 Highland Park vs. #26 South Amboy (winner at #10 South River, winner at #7 South Plainfield)
- #24 Perth Amboy Tech vs. #25 Calvary Christian (winner at #9 Piscataway, winner at #8 Timothy Christian)