HLpreps

This is the most updated list I have. Rank Player School Points Grad year 1 Julius Berry Lexington Dunbar 3000 1959 2 Kyle Rode Lexington Christian 2517 2019 3 Taveion Hollingsworth Paul Laurence Dunbar 2495 2017 4 Mike Allen Bryan Station 2408 1989 5 Ben Johnson Lexington Catholic 2354 2021 6 Jackson Davis Lafayette 2343 2014 7 Mike Smith Sayre/Dunbar 2324 2013 8 Darnell Burton Paul Laurence Dunbar 2192 1993 9 Demetrius Green Lexington Catholic 2144 2004 10 Jaron Brown Bryan Station 2066 1998

This is my personal curated list of top 10 scorers from Lexington based on published reports and KHSAA stats. Owens might reach a couple. Rank Player School Points Grad year 1 Julius Berry Lexington Dunbar 3000 1959 2 Kyle Rode Lexington Christian 2517 2019 3 Taveion Hollingsworth Paul Laurence Dunbar 2495 2017 4 Mike Allen Bryan Station 2408 1989 5 Ben Johnson Lexington Catholic 2354 2021 6 Jackson Davis Lafayette 2343 2014 7 Mike Smith Sayre/Dunbar 2324 2013 8 Darnell Burton Paul Laurence Dunbar 2192 1993 9 Demetrius Green Lexington Catholic 2144 2004 10 Jaron Brown Bryan Station 2066 1998

And pardon the typos. Spent 10 hours at state swimming Friday and headed back. ?

From my experience as a voter for he Herald-Leader, the nomination process for region players of the year are not just open to the coaches within that region. Any coach, media member who has a Mr. and Miss Basketball vote, or past Mr. or Miss Basketball winner is invited to nominate players as a region players of the year. As a media member, I can nominate 3 players for each gender, regardless of whether I stick to my home region (the 11th). That way, I can nominate someone from the 11th, for instance, and then nominate any two other players I think should be a Mr./Miss Basketball candidate. Or I can just burn all mine in the 11th Region (I don't). Maybe that clears some things up?

For those wondering, the Greenup vote was an error. I’ll fess up here because it really aggravated me. At the time I voted, Great Crossing was not among the available choices that are part of AP’s voting system. Someone else had called that out, but AP hadn’t fixed it when I voted, so I voted Greenup in the slot for Great Crossing and noted on the form in three places that my Greenup vote was a Great Crossing vote. The system doesn’t let you leave a spot blank. New schools are sometimes slow to make it into the list. My notes weren’t seen somehow by the AP editor. And in Greenup went. I should have followed up my ballot with an email, but alas …. I didn’t see the error until it was too late. Won’t happen again. Hate that it marred the first poll of the season.

Henry Clay's ability to handle John Hardin's press should be a concern for LexCath. I agree it's these two in the 11th, because they are the most consistent teams after the Blue Devils December doldrums. Mackey and Dillard are the x-factors. Warrick's gonna Warrick, but the other two and the rest of the team came up huge Saturday.

Being at the meeting on Thursday, it was said that statistically, given all the calculations going into the football RPI, the OWP change is not that significant and you really have to monkey with it to make a difference in the RPI standings. But changing it to the in-state average makes sense and is a concession to critics who thought OWP and OOWP was too low. They talked about a few criticisms, but the consensus was that it produced a pretty good tournament from Round 3 to the finals, i.e. it did what is was supposed to do.

Todd Bretz to Sayre.

Not arguing for district format or saying people shouldn't complain. And I agree that LexCath/Boyle would have happened by third round, regardless. I don't think it's a particularly good scenario for top teams to have to play each other early just because of some lines people have drawn.

Since I'm up, I'll take a whack at the new playoff format. Yes, the games we're seeing this week as District Championships would previously be probably third round games, but you'd still have this big knock out of top teams in an early round. Scott County/Douglass, Pikeville/Hazard, LexCath/Boyle all would happen too early in the old format, too. The KHSAA has told me the third round will be a Regional Championship trophy round. So, that still exists, just later. Now, at least, once we get past this round, and into RPI seeding there's no way I see for the top 2 RPI teams to face each other before Kroger Field. If Cov Cath and Douglass advance, they won't meet next round just because the bracket says so. They only meet in the final. Same for Male and North Hardin, Bell and Tilghman, KCD and Pikeville. Do people hate having to play back through the district this week? Oh yeah. Do people want to see the best two teams in each class at Kroger Field? I think so. The old way meant Johnson Central-Boyle County could be the semifinal. The new way won't let that happen. My philosophy on this is that no one is ever happy, regardless. Let's complain about something new. Here we go.

Actually the 3rd round will be called Regional Championships and there will be trophies. Because, technically these are still East only and West only games.

Second round game is the "District Championship" since its all intra-district. Third round game is "Regional Championship" and is seeded based on rankings in each half of the state 1-4. Semifinals are SemiState, which I guess is a thing, but feels dumb, since state semifinals seems fine to say.