Tonight at Valley 6pm

Manual (13-3) - Trinity (5-8)

RPI .67141    -    RPI .51179

I will be covering this game and most if not all the games for the rest of the LIT and giving lots of updates.

I appreciate everyone following along, voting in the polls and giving predictions and feedback.

It is going to be a great 4 days! Is anyone else going I would love to meet you!

My prediction in this one is Trinity pulls the upset and wins by 3.

1:36 to go in first Trinity leads 9 to 7.

So weird to me seeing this 35 second clock for the LIT. They experimenting with it over next 4 days for LIT then next week going back to not using it. I don't know how I feel about it honestly I just am old school and I've always known high school for not having it and being different so I'm not a fan of it. Thoughts? Opinions?

End of first Trinity 12 Manual 7.

5:14 to go in half Trinity leads 17 to 11. This is not the Trinity that is 6 and 8 and lost 6 in a row. They have been hurt and had some personal issues etc but this team now if all heads stay on straight and they stay out of all the outside noise etc they will be a regional contender.

2:58 to go in half Trinty leads 24 to 13. Timeout Manual.

This one is getting ugly quick Trinity defense is top notch. They have been super impressive in first half. They play like this they can win this tournament. Amazing turn around for Coach Saxton and the Rocks with how they looked in the LIT. Rocks lead 33 to 16 with 27.9 seconds to go in half.

Halftime Trinity 33 Manual 16. So you have to wonder if this margin has to do with Trinity being allowed to practice while school is closed so christmas break, snow week and Manual not being able too. Private/Catholic schools have such advantage on things like that. Manual looks rusty like they haven't been able to practice while Trinity has gotten better since Christmas ? 

Manual had a shot clock violation towards the end of second quarter. The first time that has happened in the history of high school basketball in Kentucky. In my 40 years following high school basketball in this state as either a son of dad who was a coach and had me in gyms as a little kid in gyms learning from coaches like Donnie Salyer, Joe Rogers, Scotty Davenport, to playing basketball, to coaching basketball and being on staffs or learning from coaches like Kevin Klein, Daniel Reed, Richard Gatewood, Scott Tandy, Charlie Haydon RIP ?, Jeff Morrow during state championship run, Steve Sargeant, Elmer Bennett, Jerry Eaves at NC A&T, and Stanley Jackson. To now doing media coverage I'd thought I'd seen it all. But nope.

Jayden Johnson leads the Shamrocks with 11, all coming in the 2Q. He's 3/9 overall and 3/7 from 3. He went 3/6 & 3/5 in the second.

Malachi Coleman leads the Crimsons with 5.

Trinity has completely took Manual out of their game and have dominated on both sides of the ball.

5:12 to go in third Rocks still rolling 39 to 18.

Trinity leads 53 to 25 end of third! Wow!

Final Trinity 67 Manual 32. On the first game ever with the 35 second shot clock it's only fitting the winning margin was a puzzling 35 points. Kind of freaky.

48 minutes ago, LouHSJunkie said:

Halftime Trinity 33 Manual 16. So you have to wonder if this margin has to do with Trinity being allowed to practice while school is closed so christmas break, snow week and Manual not being able too. Private/Catholic schools have such advantage on things like that. Manual looks rusty like they haven't been able to practice while Trinity has gotten better since Christmas ? 

Could be. I know St. X practiced during snow week.