5th Region Rankings Week 12

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5^th Region Week 12 Review & Rankings

 

1.      North Hardin (17-8)
Previous Rank: 3
Last Week Results: (L) Warren Central 61-71, (W) Green Co. 69-59
This Week’s Games: Spencer Co. Frederick Douglas, at Desales

2.      Larue County (18-9)
Previous Rank: 4
Last Week’s Results: (W) Elizabethtown 72-54, (W) Marion Co. 77-55
This Week’s Games: at Iroquois, Pulaski Co.

3.      Adair County (22-6)
Previous Rank: 1
Last Week’s Results: (L) Warren Central 59-65, (W) Russell Co. 77-67, (L) Lyon Co. 48-98
This Week’s Games: Caverna, Hart Co.

4.      Central Hardin (16-9)
Previous Rank: 8
Last Week’s Results: (W) Caverna 97-70, (W) Green Co. 78-70, (W) Meade Co. 90-59
This Week’s Games: Holy Cross, Doss, at Fern Creek

5.      Elizabethtown (18-8)
Previous Rank: 2
Last Week’s Results: (L) Larue Co. 54-72, (W) Taylor Co. 62-59, (L) Jeffersontown 41-44 (double overtime)
This Week’s Games: Seneca

6.      Washington County (19-9)
Previous Rank; 7
Last Week’s Games: (W) Bluegrass United 62-53, (W) Hart Co. 62-48
This Week’s Games: at Danville

7.      Taylor County (15-12)
Previous Rank: 9
Last Week’s Results (W) Glasgow 82-70, (L) Elizabethtown 59-62, (W) Bethlehem 71-64
This Week’s Games: at Barren Co. Boyle Co.

8.      Caverna (16-9)
Previous Rank: 5
Last Week’s Results (L) Central Hardin 70-97
This Week’s Games: at Adair Co. at Metcalfe Co.

9.      Green County (16-12)
Previous Rank: 6
Last Week’s Results (L) Central Hardin 70-78, (L) North Hardin 59-69
This Week’s Games: at Warren East, Cumberland Co.

10.  Hart County (15-10)
Previous Rank: 11
Last Week’s Results: (W) Bullitt Central 68-50, (W) Metcalfe Co. 65-55, (L) Washington Co. 48-62
This Week’s Games: at Nelson Co. at Adair Co.

11.  Bardstown (12-14)
Previous Rank: 10
Last Week’s Results: (L) Spencer Co. 47-70
This Week’s Games: Mercer Co. WEB DuBois

12.  Campbellsville (11-15)
Previous Rank: 13
Last Week’s Results: (L) Somerset 47-61, (W) Casey Co. 70-45
This Week’s Games: Danville, Thomas Nelson

13.  Bethlehem (12-13)
Previous Rank: 12
Last Week’s Results (L) Meade Co. 54-77, (L) Taylor Co. 64-71
This Week’s Games: Marion Co.

14.  Nelson County (7-17)
Previous Rank: 14
Last Week’s Games: (L) Danville 56-62 (Overtime)
This Week’s Games: Hart Co. Eminence

15.  Fort Knox (6-20)
Previous Rank: 17
Last Week’s Games: (L) Collegiate 54-70, (W) Brown 64-59, (W) Cloverport 63-36
This Week’s Games: at Brown

16.  Thomas Nelson (5-20)
Previous Rank:18
Last Week’s Games: (L) Valley 59-74, (W) Francis Parker 60-51, (W) Holmes 83-51
This Week’s Games: at Campbellsville, Brown

17.  John Hardin (4-25)
Previous Rank: 15
Last Week’s Games: (L) Grayson Co. 56-76, (L) Kentucky Country Day 47-85
This Week’s Games: at Apollo

18.  Marion County (4-23)
Previous Rank: 16
Last Week’s Games: (W) Garrard Co. 62-49, (L) Edmonson Co. 59-68, (L) Larue Co. 55-77, (L) Trinity Christian 56-57
This Week’s Games: at Bethlehem

 

Thoughts

-North Hardin assumes the top spot in this week’s rankings. North has been a pretty consistent team all season, but they kind of fall in to the top spot based more on what other teams didn’t do rather than what they did. They did have a good win against Green County on Friday night and a 10-point loss against Warren Central, that saw the Trojans play pretty well.

-Larue County is riding a 4-game win streak that included a very dominant performance against Elizabethtown. That game was never close. Jagger Mardis shot the lights out in that game and if he can continue to shoot well and pull defenses out, that will make Larue a very dangerous team down the stretch.

-Adair County dropped 2 games in the same week for the first time all season. Granted, those games were against top competitors, losing to Warren Central and to Lyon County, but the Lyon County game was a 50-point blowout. Realistically, I didn’t expect Adair to win that game, but certainly didn’t think they would be beaten that badly. While Adair has still won the majority of their games recently, they have not been playing as well. If Adair is going to make a deep run, they’ve got to course correct quickly.

-Central Hardin is a team that is playing its best basketball at the right time. A 27-point blowout at Caverna and then an 8-point win at Green this week in a game that wasn’t that close. Central led by 20 for most of the game. Central hosts the district tournament, so you have to think that gives them an edge as well as they are playing.

-Elizabethtown got smacked by Larue County. The game was never close. They defeated Taylor by 3 in a game that I thought Taylor probably should have won and then managed to only score 41 points in a double overtime loss to J-town. Coach Haire has been very critical of the team chemistry right now. You never count Coach Haire and the Panthers out, but I put them in the same category of Adair County. If they are going to make a run, they need to get some things figured out quickly.

-Taylor County went 2-1 this week. The Cardinals have been playing much better as of late. The opposite is true for Caverna and Green County. They combined went 0-3 last week. I’ve been high on both teams this season but maybe reality is starting to set in for them, that they are just outside of the top tier teams in the region.