Intramural Basketball..... The League of Fierce Competition?

This year, I formed an intramural basketball team that will partake in a short season over at the Jorgenson YMCA.  Last year, I competed in intramural basketball as well.  There are two leagues that teams can compete in; Teams can compete in the B league for underclassman, or the A league for upperclassman.  My team played on the B league last year and we went win less.  This year, I had a new mindset that I would try to form a more competitive team and take on the talented teams in the A league.  Going into the season, I felt I had formed a team that would be able to compete with other teams in the league.  Basically, my mindset was that I felt I had gotten players that could play better than the average basketball player in our age group.  I also thought that the fact that this league was an intramural basketball league would make the games less competitive than games within our school.  Little did I know, there are plenty of talented basketball players who do not play for Homestead's basketball team.  As a welcoming surprise, we won our first game of the season with a score of 56-53 and thus ended our six game losing streak from the previous year!  However, I believe we won in an upset victory.  Basically, I believe the A league teams and really all of the intramural basketball teams are extremely competitive.  A person cannot go into the season with a few casual basketball players on their team and expect to win easily.  There are many, many talented players that surprise me with the fact they are not on the school's basketball team.  Evidence of my opinions came in my team's second basketball game of the season, which occurred last Monday.  We were dominated the whole game and lost by a final tally of 56-100!  I was simply in awe of how we were thoroughly dominated in the game.  Do not get me wrong, I am not an upper level basketball player.  However, I believed the fact that my team won our first game and the fact we showed signs of competitiveness in our first game would bode well for our future. Unfortunately, the team we faced on Monday proved to be too strong.  For better perspective on the blowout, consider that scoring 100 points in intramural basketball is about the equivalent to scoring over seventy points in a high school football game!  Despite the loss, I understand that the intramural basketball league if far more competitive than most people perceive.  I will continue to have a positive, yet realistic mindset for the remainder of my basketball season.  In conclusion, you may want to think twice about joining an intramural basketball team if you are not prepared to be up against extremely intense competition.