Final per the scoreboard.

Lincoln County is balling!!!! Wow. Just racking up impressive win after impressive win.

 

How is good is Wayne County? Wow.

^ We're thinking the same things. :thumb:

That's a big win.

Since the beginning of the season Lincoln DEFINITELY has had a meeting of the minds (between some of their players and the coach) and certainly are now displaying the kind of potential expected of them by their supporters.

 

Meanwhile Wayne continues to impress. As opponents are making it more difficult for Woods to maintain a 28-30 point average, their other players are picking up slack (while Woods still keeps his high shooting %). Now, opponents have three potential 20 ppg players (Woods, Stearns & Blevins) to stop and if you focus too much on any one of them, the others will make it up. Plus Perkins is undoubtedly the best "fourth player" in the region and the balance of the team is contributing on top of that.

 

The interesting thing about Wayne is that they only graduate one of their top four players.

And Lincoln doesn't lose any of their top 5....or anyone in their rotation for that matter.

 

Wayne may be 12-0 but Lincoln has spent the last 2 - 3 weeks playing an extremely difficult schedule. And winning. There are those that think Wayne's lack of strength of schedule may come back to bite them. Besides the TN tournament they played in, every game has been at Wayne. And outside of the early game against Lincoln, they haven't played anyone that they can point to as a big win. Of course, we have no basis for comparison for the teams they played in TN.

 

As I said in a post earlier today, I do agree that Stearns (and Blevins) has stepped up when Woods hasn't had the big game. IMO Wayne is clearly a top 2 team but, given Lincoln's resume over the last 3 weeks, I don't think we can still say that Wayne is clearly the best team. I would love to see them play each other at a neutral site right now.