Globe Top 20s; CM above Cathedral!?

Here's the list of The Boston Globe's Top 20s for this week.

Boy's hoop

Girl's hoop

Boy's hockey

Girl's hockey 

Notice that Springfield Cathedral is now ranked at No. 3 in the boy's hockey poll. Can I smell a Super 8 berth?

But wait a second here...why is Catholic Memorial ranked above them? Didn't Cathedral beat CM? So why are they No. 2? Interesting guys.

And in girl's hockey, St. Mary's of Lynn is still undefeated and haven't lost a game since the 2006-2007 season.

Western Mass. hoops forum haters

Tonight is the night folks that Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir breaks Rebecca Lobo's high school state scoring record.

We've been digging up some dirt courtesy of the Masslive.com forums and here's what we dug up...

"[New Leadership] is looking at becoming a JV program next year.

So basically she did this playing on a JV level team. Seeing how they win half their games, it appears they are playing JV level competition.

Imagine how many D1 players could score like this if they were playing JV level?" - h00ps

East versus West's response:

Ouch. So now New Leadership is classified as a JV team?

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"It'll take her 8 more games than Lobo. She also is 13 inches shorter, which makes it all the more unbelievable." - AAUcoach50

East versus West's response:

Abdul-Qaadir only stands at 5 foot 3 inches, that is crazy.
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"It took her 5 years to beat a record that was done in 4!! There should be an asterisk next to this record." - msslive124

East versus West's response:

What is this? The Barry Bonds factor?

If you want to join in on this discussion go here.

Do I smell controversy?

According to a post on the masslive.com WMASS girl's hoop forum there's some controversy looming about New Leadership's Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir who is three points shy of surpassing Rebecca Lobo's all-time state scoring record.

Lobo was able to score 2,710 in four seasons. Apparently, Abdul-Qaadir has been tallying points since eighth-grade.

So now the question is, once Adbul-Qaadir breaks the record, will it be legit? Should she be the rightful state's all-time scoring leading with an extra year under her belt?

No opinions yet for me. Lets see what happens once it does happen.