Knox Central wins its sixth straight 51st District title.

Congrats Knox Central

Knox Central is playing pretty good ball right now, but lets be realistic here......their district consists of Barbourville, Pineville and Lynn Camp, all three of those are small single A schools.

Let's be realistic? OK. When Knox Central is healthy, the Panthers are one of the best teams in the region. Hasn't been the entire season and is a matchup problem for any team that's in the region tourney. They also have beaten Clay County this season (only other region team to do that is Harlan County) when they were healthy. Also those Class A schools have held their own. Barbourville has beaten some of the best teams in the region this season (including Harlan County on its home court) & Pineville has, too, including the defending 13th Region champion North Laurel by double digits.

Knox Central has the potential it seems every year to be a top team in the 13th......Barbourville and Pineville are both quality A schools but they are probably in the 7-10 range in the top ten 13th region teams and Pineville along with North Laurel have been the biggest disappointments this season. And I know North is alive and could very well straighten out this season really quick now. Barbourville did beat Harlan Co but they also lost to Rockcastle Co. and Harlan City. Pineville has been a huge disappointment this season after entering the season as one of the favorites for the 13th. Pineville did beat the teams that they were supposed to but they never could get that big win, except for that North win if you can call that big at the time. To be one of the pre-season favorites, Pineville just didnt live up to the hype. Knox Central is playing very well right now but its a huge advantage playing district teams that you know you're better than. Seems as though with Knox playing lower competition in the district in recent years, its led to false hope and failure in the region tourny.

Umm. OK.

When was last time Knox played in region championship game? Won region?

1971 and either 2002 or 2003.

Ok, Thanks

No problemo. I'm just here for the ride.

Les, I might have misread your post, but did you say Harlan County is not healthy, maybe some injuries. I hope not because I picked them to win the 13th in a few contest and pools. If I had known that I would have picked Clay County.

No. Knox had been.