Madisonville North Hopkins (8-2) at South Warren (8-2)

The Maroons head to Bowling Green to take on South Warren in the first round of the 2023 5A Playoffs.  Both of these teams were in 4A not too long ago.  These 2 have only played once before and that was in the first round of the 2016 4A Playoffs with South winning 48-20 at home.

Madisonville pulled a pretty big upset upending Owensboro at home 45-38.  That created a 3-way tie for first place in 5A District 1 where RPI settled the playoff seeding with Madisonville drawing the short straw and being sent on the road to South Warren.  I don't really know much about Coach Chris Price, Sr's team, but 8-2 is a good record, but South Warren is likely a different level of opponent for them.

South Warren played on Thursday last week and defeated an overmanned Logan County squad 42-6 where the game was never in question.  South seems set up to make a deep playoff run here.

Can the Maroons pull the upset or will South Warren begin that deep playoff run?

This should be 1 of the better 1st round games… South’s defense is on another level than Owensboros. I don’t expect the Maroons to put up as many points against the Spartans. I look for the score to be similar to what it was when they met in the 2016 playoffs. 
 

SW 48

Madisonville 20

SW-49

Madisonville-21. 

Bump.

Live Stream:

South Warren vs. Madisonville-North Hopkins at stfanclub.com

Would rather be wrong about this, but I see a third quarter running clock in this one.  Could get ugly fast.

Some on here have talked about how MNH is really good. I could be wrong, but I don’t see it. 
 

I see South rolling in this one. 

I am picking Madisonville as my upset of the night. 

Was intrigued by this game - one of two between ranked BGP Top 10 teams. Then I took a look at this O'boro at M-NH thread and then CalPreps for the Maroons' SoS. 

bluegrasspreps.com/madisonville-north-hopkins-45-owensboro-38 

It's not often I substantially disagree with the BGP rankings crew, but I don't think they're Top 10 material.  

The Maroons' 8-2 record is built on the backs of some 2A schools and a fairly weak District. Per CalPreps, their SoS is 29th ranked of 5A's 39 teams. 

calpreps.com/23/ratings/KY_div_5A 

CalPreps is calling South Warren 42-28. I like Massey's 47-14 prediction better.

12 minutes ago, Redheat said:

I am picking Madisonville as my upset of the night. 

If that happens, it will probably be the upset of the night. Not impossible, but improbable.

12 minutes ago, Runcible Owl said:

Was intrigued by this game - one of two between ranked BGP Top 10 teams. Then I took a look at this O'boro at M-NH thread and then CalPreps for the Maroons' SoS. 

bluegrasspreps.com/madisonville-north-hopkins-45-owensboro-38 

It's not often I substantially disagree with the BGP rankings crew, but I don't think they're Top 10 material.  

The Maroons' 8-2 record is built on the backs of some 2A schools and a fairly weak District. Per CalPreps, their SoS is 29th ranked of 5A's 39 teams. 

calpreps.com/23/ratings/KY_div_5A 

CalPreps is calling South Warren 42-28. I like Massey's 47-14 prediction better.

Careful now……..some on here only want you to look at record and not worry about a team playing down in class.

 

but you are exactly right.

@Voice of Reason haven't seen Madisonville at all and only about 30 secs of South Warren this year. Just going against the grain lol.

Very nice year for the Maroons, but they've been handed one of the playoff's worst first round draws. No easy paths to the second round for anyone in District 1 except Owensboro, a team MNH beat.

Spartans by three scores.

Anyone have an update?

12 minutes ago, Redheat said:

Anyone have an update?

36-0 at the half SW leading