I thought now would be a good time to give a 1st Region update or as most on this message board call it Wayne County's first round fodder. The fact is this region is wide open. A case could be made that any of Calloway, Graves, McCracken, Marshall, St Mary or Tilghman could emerge from the 1st Region tournament.

 

In the region last night Graves beat Marshall for the second time this year and Tilghman beat St Mary to split their season series. So where are we at this point?

 

Rankings

1 Calloway 17-4 - lost to Graves early but has beaten McCracken twice and Marshall

2 McCracken 16-7 - lost to Calloway twice, beat Graves twice, split with Marshall, beat Tilghman

3 Graves 20-4 - beat Calloway, lost to McCracken twice, beat Marshall twice, beat Tilghman

4 Marshall 14-9 - has lost to Graves twice and Calloway once, split with McCracken, beat St Mary and

Tilghman

5 St Mary 16-7 - lost to Marshall, split with Tilghman, hasn't played top 3 teams yet

6 Tilghman 12-10 - lost to Graves, McCracken, Marshall twice and split with St Mary

7 Murray 10-9 - young and improving club, lost handily to Calloway twice and also lost to Marshall

8 Mayfield 10-10 - could upset someone in post-season. Big game with Graves upcoming

9 Carlisle 10-12 - huge improvement from beginning of season

10 Hickman 5-7 - along with Carlisle 1st District favorites

 

First District - Hickman County seems destined to be the number 1 seed in the District tournament at this point but does need a win at Fulton County Tuesday night to clinch it. Fulton County beat Carlisle at home early in the season but that was a much different team at the time than it is now. Carlisle has steadily improved as the season has progressed and would have to be seen as the favorite in the tournament. They split with Hickman during the season and their very young squad continues to improve. The tournament is at certain 4 seed Fulton City so it should make for an interesting 2-3 game to advance to Regionals.

 

Second District - Much is still left to be determined this week in this District. Right now McCracken leads at 3-0, but they play two games against St Mary and one against Tilghman at home this week. Tilghman beat St Mary last night to stay in the regular season race for the one seed. St Mary is 3-1 and Tilghman is 3-2 at this point. With CCA being the certain 4 seed whichever team grabs the 1 seed will avoid the 2-3 game in this District among 2 of the top 6 teams in the region. If McCracken wins 2 games this week they will be the 1 seed. The tournament is at McCracken so they would seem to be the favorites.

 

Third District - At this point this seems pretty cut and dried. Graves and Mayfield have both handled Ballard Memorial pretty easily in the regular season and would seem to be the foregone conclusion to play in the Regional tournament. Graves beat Mayfield by 16 earlier in the year at home but still has a game to play at Mayfield. The tournament is also at Mayfield so a chance to steal the tournament remains.

 

Fourth District - Calloway won the matchup with Marshall earlier in the season but still has to play at Marshall on the 14th. Murray is 0-3 in the District but is still a dangerous team. With the tournament being held at Marshall it would seem Calloway and Marshall are huge favorites to advance.

 

Regional Tournament

Who wins this region may well come down to luck of the draw. Logic would say that one of Calloway, McCracken or Graves will advance to the state tournament. Which two of those get placed on the same side of the draw will be huge if the all win their District tournament. But in addition Marshall and St Mary or Tilghman could beat anyone on a given day. Could be best 1st Region tournament in a while. Big District games this week will begin to fill in some blanks.

Great info!!!!

I think if Graves can avoid McCracken, then they will bring home the region title. IMO, it will either be Calloway or Graves.

I think if Graves can avoid McCracken, then they will bring home the region title. IMO, it will either be Calloway or Graves.

 

I think if you polled most people around Region 1 they would agree with you that Graves is still the team to beat. Still, they would love to see McCracken on other side of bracket.

Graves beat Calloway which beat McCracken twice who beat Graves twice.

 

I think one of those 3 win.

Murray upset Marshall last night at Marshall 50 to 46. Will be a rematch in first round of 4th District tournament at Marshall.

Does Graves match up poorly with McCracken Co? It seems like they have been very solid this season outside of those two losses.

Does Graves match up poorly with McCracken Co? It seems like they have been very solid this season outside of those two losses.

 

McCracken's three leading scorers are guards and it seems Graves has had a tough time matching up with them in the first two games. On the other hand, McCracken has had a hard time matching up against Calloway's size and lost two close games.

McCracken has a hard time matching up with Calloway's size.

 

Graves for some reason struggles offensively against McCracken. One thing McCracken does against Graves is put a taller defender on Jake Williams and he has struggled against that. Plus McCracken packs in their man defense to cause Graves trouble running their sets that they run so well.