A celebration to honor the senior players on the Bridgewater-Raritan High School Unified Basketball Team will be staged on Tuesday, February 11.
The Unified Basketball Team’s Senior Night will start Tuesday at 3:45 p.m. in the Vaughn Stapleton Gymnasium at Bridgewater-Raritan High School.
After the 15 seniors/age-out players are recognized, Bridgewater-Raritan will bid to enhance its standing as the top NJSIAA power-point team in New Jersey when these Panther hoopsters play Hillsborough High School in the final regular-season game before the state tournament begins.
The NJSIAA power points are a system used to determine how teams in scholastic sports in New Jersey qualify for and are seeded in the state playoffs. The system is based on the sum of a team's quality points, residual points, and a strength of schedule factor.
This winter signaled the first year that the NJSIAA included Unified Basketball in its power-points system. There are 37 Unified Basketball Teams playing this year in New Jersey.
As of Friday, February 7, Bridgewater-Raritan sits atop of the power-point standings with 12.582 points. While Bridgewater-Raritan is 5-2, Bloomfield High School is 11-0 but is in second place in the power points with 12.335. Bridgewater-Raritan's more vigorous schedule of quality teams helped it out-point Bloomfield.
If Bridgewater-Raritan finishes No. 1 in the power-point standings, then it will serve as the host throughout the upcoming state tournament until the state championship games that will be played at Rutgers University’s Jersey Mike’s Arena in Piscataway on March 15 and 16.
Even a high finish would guarantee a home game for the first round of the state tournament that is scheduled to start within a few weeks.
Bridgewater-Raritan fell in the semifinal round of the state tournament last season when the Panthers ended 7-3.
Click on the link below for the NJSIAA power-point standings in Unified Basketball as of February 7, 2025
Unified Basketball State power points