Both teams had easy second round games.  Who will advance to the finals?  This looks like all Great Crossing, correct?

Going to be a dandy I think. GC wants to press but Lyon has a ton of guard talent and can break it. Difference will be if Lyon can handle the size of Crossing. 

Really pulling for Lyon County, but I think Great Crossing will be too much.

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Great Crossing (37-1) the states #1 ranked team take on the Lyon County (34-3) with the states #1 player Travis Perry. These two teams have 2 high quality common opponents in Lexington Catholic and Frederick Douglass. Lyon Co. defeated these two teams in back to back games in the Catholic holiday tournament. They defeated the Broncos 86-65 and Lexington Catholic 83-63. Great Crossing played Douglass once and Lexington Catholic twice. The Warhawks defeated the Broncos 71-66 and Catholic by scores of 58-50 and 56-53 in the 11th region championship.

I think Lyon County will have a shot in this one, but Mr. Basketball Travis Perry will need to play much better and have a big scoring game for the Lyons to get the win. The winner will advance to the 2024 State Championship vs. the winners of the Harlan Co./Evangel Christian game.

This might be unpopular but Crossing is gonna name the score in this one. They are way too athletic and big for Lyon. Even at the guard and wing positions, where it will help defending and closing out on some of the Lyon shooters. I don't know how Moreno doesn't have 30 rebounds this game, nobody on Lyon is above 6'4. And to that point Lyon County plays a zone defense without much ball pressure. How easy is it gonna be to dump the ball to Moreno and he just flick it over his shoulder because nobody else can even contest his floater? All he has to do is get to his spot and turn over his shoulder. Just a bad matchup.

Lyon is going to have to be filling it up from deep to get this W. Give my GC by 12

Lyon Co. 64-61.

Tipping in about 5 minutes. I’m interested to see what kind of game Perry has today vs. the long and athletic defenders of Great Crossing. 

Massey Ratings prediction ~ 

Great Crossing 70 

Lyon County 67 

Tied at 13 with just ove 3 minutes left in the first quarter. 

15 all.

8 minutes ago, Runcible Owl said:

Massey Ratings prediction ~ 

Great Crossing 70 

Lyon County 67 

I didn't think Massey would have it that close.

Maybe I have been reading too much Great Crossing hype.

Great Crossing 16 Lyon County 15

End of 1.

Great Crossing leads 16-15 end of the first quarter. 

Per the livestream ~ 

Warhawks close out the quarter on a 6-0 run after the Lyons went on a 10-2 rip.

Moreno at the line ... is a work in progress ...