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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Obviously, height is important in basketball.  But on my son's private school team there are a surprising number of very skilled shorter kids on the team.  My son is a legit 6-2 (meaning he is about as tall as many basketball recruits in the DMV who claim they are 6-4), and he was taller than all but a few kids on the team last year.  Granted, he is not at PVI, but this is a real team.  All of these super-skilled little guys are serious AAU players, and most of them them do not play much on varsity, but they are on the varsity.  The local publics are loaded with shorter players (say 6-1 and under).  Many teams have no size at all, probably because almost all the bigs have been recruited to the private schools.    [/quote]

Isn't it much easier to make most private school basketball teams vs. public school teams? A 3000 student public high school has a lot more kids trying out than a 400 student private school. [/quote]

The issue is that private schools can recruit to fill their rosters from anywhere and the public schools (at least in theory) have to pull from the local area.

The result is that the hardest teams to make by a mile are the private schools that recruit for basketball. 
The large public schools are the next hardest to make. 
Then much much easier are the private schools that don't recruit for basketball.  
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