FAQ’s

No, not at all.  We have a variety of good, average, and recreational teams.  I’d say the vast majority of our teams are feeder based teams consisting of kids who will all end up at the same high school together.  In many cases, we have schools put in multiple teams at varying skill levels and grade levels.

We try to make things as much “high-school” like as possible.  Especially at all of our high schools, we have the bleachers out, chairs set-up, scoreboard on, etc.  We have two adult referees for the game, and there’s a winner and a loser.  We play two 20 minute halves with a running clock.  The clock stops in the last minute of the first half and the last two minutes of the second half.  All games take place on the hour, which means if you start your game at 3 you’ll most likely be walking out to the parking lot at 4. We have some pressing regulations where at the younger ages, you can’t or can but with restrictions based on score or time of the game.  But besides that, everything else is pretty normal.  All of our rules can be found on our website at www.cnrbasketball.com

Sure, we’d like to be able to guarantee competitive match ups, but anyone who says they can is unrealistic.  Whether it’s 10 year-olds or the professionals, games are determined by what happens on the court or the field.  However, what we try to do is on paper put your teams in the best position by arranging what we feel are potential competitive matchups.  We do this by using a ranking system.  When each team joins the league, a team has to rank themselves based on a 10 thru 1 scale we’ve put together.  So when the schedule gets put together, if you ranked yourself a 6, you’ll see the vast majority of your games are against teams within a number or two of your ranking.

Yes, as long as we know in advance of those conflicts we can work around them.  Whether it’s a case of you need to avoid a certain time frame on a day or you have a few weekends you need to avoid all together, we can take care of that.  Maybe you’re a team who just wants to play four doubleheaders on four specific dates and be done, we can take care of that as well.  We realize people’s lives are hectic and they have many things going on.  We take pride in the fact that we can make things a little easier on people from a basketball standpoint.

Yes, CNR offers several tournaments.  Most of our teams will participate in the St. Louis Youth Jamboree (November), CNR Pre Season Tournament (November), CNR January Bash (January) and CNR Post Season Tournament (February).  All tournaments can be found under our Tournaments tab on the CNR Basketball website.  Feeder based teams also look forward to the St. Louis Jingle Jam that takes place in late December (www.stlouisjinglejam.com). We’ve recently added a Winter Classic in January and a Fall Tournament in late October.

Uniforms- Home vs. Away– We get this question alot.  Who is home and who is away?  If you look at your schedule online, and if you see a Vs., then you are the away team and you will wear dark uniforms.  If you don’t see a Vs. next to the opponent, you are the Home team and you will wear white uniforms.  All that being said, we always ask teams to be prepared to switch colors.  Whether it’s because some teams only have one color- or because another team simply wears the wrong color, please come to the game prepared to change colors.

Email us at cnrbasketball2015@gmail.com or call the CNR Hotline at 314-343-9827.

Prior to schedules being finalized, Coaches are given several days to request schedule changes. Once schedules are finalized teams are expected to play the games as scheduled.

Should a situation arise where your team isn’t able to participate in a scheduled game, we will make every attempt to reschedule your game at a mutually convenient date and time. However this isn’t always possible due to conflicts the other team may have and / or space availability.

If the request is made within 2 weeks of the originally scheduled game and CNR isn’t able to find another date and time to play the game, CNR will fill the game with another opponent and you will be charged for the game. It’s only fair that the other team is able to play their game as scheduled. In most cases, CNR is able to find another game for your team to play later in the season.

At every gym there will be a site supervisor in charge.  They are there to help you with any questions you have, to collect any paperwork or money you have to turn in, or if any problems arise, they are there to troubleshoot the situation. If all else fails, you can email us at cnrbasketball2015@gmail.com or call the CNR Hotline at 314-343-9827.

If it’s an issue involving a code of conduct type situation, we have people who within those few days after the incident will contact you and handle those situations.  We also have a Head of Officials who handle any referee issues you have.

CNR is a youth basketball organization that has a Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter basketball league.   The summer basketball league takes place on Monday thru Thursday evenings from the beginning of June through mid-July.  Our summer league has boys’ and girls’ divisions from varsity all the way down through 2nd grade.  The hallmark of CNR Basketball is it’s Winter basketball league.  Games take place mainly on Saturdays and Sundays, with a few Thursday and Friday evenings available, from early December thru late February.  The Winter league has boys’ and girls’ divisions for grades 2 thru 8.  We also offer a Spring league (early April thru late May) and Fall League (early September to end of October).

The cost is $70 per game per team.  It’s completely up to you on how many games your team plays in any of our sessions.  We have some teams who play an eight game schedule, some ten, some 12, some even 24 games.

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We use gyms all over the metropolitan St. Louis area.  A gym like Fox not only serves those South County and Jefferson County teams, but it attracts teams down towards Farmington, Poplar Bluff, and Jackson.  Eureka High School not only serves those teams on Highway 44, but it attracts teams towards Rolla as well.  Gyms such as Lindbergh and Valley Park serve as a perfect mid-point for some South and West County teams.  For those teams in St. Charles, we all use of the Fort Zumwalt High schools as well as St. Charles West High, St. Charles Hardin Middle, Wentzville Liberty, Troy, Orchard Farm, Lombardo All-American Athlete Center, and Zion Lutheran Church.  Other locations we use are Ladue, Kirkwood, Parkway Central, Parkway North, Lafayette, MICDS, John Burroughs, Notre Dame, Gametime – St. Peters and Center St. Louis.

Here’s what we try to guarantee teams.  We try to get at least half of your games at what we’d consider being gyms that are close to home.  For example, if you are a St. Charles based team, we’d essentially consider all of the Zumwalts and the St. Charles based schools as home schools.  If you’re a team in South County, host sites for you may include Fox, Lindbergh, Center St. Louis.  However, we want teams to understand they have to travel as well.  In order to create the competitive matchups we feel are important, we’re going to need to matchup up South County vs. St. Charles.  That may include a South County team making one trip a season to St. Charles – or vice versa.  It also could mean both those teams just meeting in the middle at a West County school.  The bottom line is, when all is said and done the vast majority of our teams are thrilled by the locations of their games.