“We’re #1! We don’t have a team, but we’re #1!!!”
Psst, someone tell the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association its basketball rankings system is still broken.
It was just days ago that the WIAA finally corrected — after three weeks — the fact it had a boys’ hoops squad ranked #1 despite that team not actually existing this season.
You can read about it here:
And now the cucumber sandwich eatin’ scalawags are back at it.
A scan of the WIAA’s RPI rankings Tuesday reveals the sudden emergence of something called Firm Foundation Christian as the new #1 among 1B girls.
Not Neah Bay, not Crosspoint, not Mount Vernon Christian — the triple threat trio of the division.
Firm Foundation Christian.
The Eagles boast a 1-0 record, with a win Jan. 9 over the Washington School for the Deaf, which is 2-2, and … oh, here we go again.
When you click through from the WIAA, you find Firm Foundation Christian doesn’t even list a girls’ basketball team on its site, just a boys’ team.
Look over at the Washington School for the Deaf, and its girls’ team shows a 2-1 record, not 2-2, with no record of any contest against Firm Foundation Christian.
So off I went to the actual school website for Firm Foundation Christian … and, yep, no active girls’ hoops program.
The Eagles currently offer volleyball and boys’ basketball and plan to offer girls’ basketball in the future.
And when that first team arrives at some later date, it’ll be nice to know the program has already been ranked #1 in the state.
So, they got that going for them, which is nice.
The WIAA, which uses those RPI rankings when it goes to seed teams for the state playoffs?
Them folks still need to put down the cucumber sandwiches and keep a closer eye on their computers, which appear to be going haywire worse than SkyNet.
Otherwise, we all might start thinking the organization isn’t very good at this whole ranking thing.
Coupeville Sports 
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