{"id":136098,"date":"2026-02-17T13:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136098\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T13:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:38:09","slug":"staten-islands-5-psal-boys-basketball-teams-learn-their-city-first-round-playoff-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136098\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island\u2019s 5 PSAL boys\u2019 basketball teams learn their city first-round playoff opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ZM26ZXZUZRFNLOLXUTED74YZTE\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Four of the five Staten Island PSAL boys\u2019 varsity basketball teams who qualified for the city playoffs will play first-round games at home when the postseason opens next week, the Advance\/SILive.com has learned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"PPXUIYOWSBE4FF2AQEAMJRNE4Y\">Susan Wagner (17-9), the lone Island team to earn a spot in the PSAL 4A playoffs, earned the No. 9 seed and will host No. 24 DeWitt Clinton on Feb. 27 beginning at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"SJWRXAYWKRE7LPIFIXSEVCCCYU\">The winner of that contest will advance to the second round and will visit Eagle Academy III of Queens on March 3. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"EVFV2K2655B73GQKDXAGMJWLS4\">Eagle Academy II of Brooklyn earned the No. 1 seed. There are 24 teams competing in the 4A playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"AVAITMCLCFFGFERGKZBQRMORAM\">Each of the Island\u2019s four PSAL 3A teams, meanwhile, will open postseason play on Feb. 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"HBXRBKUWNJCHZKJEEWJGP5APLM\">Staten Island PSAL 3A regular-season champion New Dorp (17-6) earned the Island\u2019s lowest seed at No. 12 and will entertain No. 21 Newtown (5 p.m.). <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CVOCRNGVOZDPXLAPH6QBGSOTQY\">No. 13 McKee\/Staten Island Tech (17-9) will host No. 20 Franklin K. Lane (6 p.m.); No. 16 Tottenville (15-10) will welcome No. 17 Evander Childs (5 p.m.) and No. 31 CSI\/McCown (12-13) will trek to the Bronx to visit No. 2 Truman (5 p.m.).<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"3YTEB7OYFNHKXB6W7AO6QK3CKQ\">Westinghouse of Brooklyn landed the No. 1 seed in the 3A division. There are 32 teams competing in the 3A division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YCMYERUFNZEBJB3IBD5HLN7LDA\">The 3A second-round playoffs will take place March 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Four of the five Staten Island PSAL boys\u2019 varsity basketball teams who qualified for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-136098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}