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Going into last week, 14 of the 16 teams who made the trip to Lexington had a chance to go back. As of now, only half that number have a chance to repeat: Christian County (2nd) Bowling Green (4th) Taylor County (5th) Doss (6th) South Oldham (8th) Mercer County (12th) Elliott County (16th) Tonight, 5 teams punched their ticket to Rupp In the 7th Region, the Bruins of Ballard (27-6) will be making their 17th appearance in the Sweet 16 after a one year absence. In the 9th Region, the Jaguars of Cooper (27-4) are making their 1st ever appearance in just their 9th year as a high school. In the 11th Region, Scott County (29-5) is making their 15th overall appearance, 1st since 2014, and 5th as a representative of the 11th. The Cardinals' previous 10 trips to the Sweet 16 were as a member of the 8th Region. In the 13th Region, the Black Bears of Harlan County (30-3) are making their 1st ever appearance in just their 9th year as a high school. In the 15th Region, Pikeville (22-8) is making their 14th appearance and their first since 1999. The Panthers' 1st ever trip to the State Tournament was in 1922 from the 16th Region. Every trip since has been as a representative of the 15th. More updates tomorrow following the conclusion of the remaining 11 Regional Title games.

Robert Morris?

I have not seen South Oldham play, but I know some in Walton would like to reach their school record win total of 28 set back in 1942.

I will be bowling, but will have my computer with me and will try to tune in. Do they have stat people at BB&T for the tournament. I'm not lucky enough to have ever been down on press row.

43 is awful hard to "accomplish" with the 30 second shot clock. Let's consider that if each team took the entire 30 seconds in both halves of play. Each team would have around 40 possessions and even if each team shot 40% from the field, it's a tie score of 32-32. Now, spray in free throws and a few made 3s. Again, 43 is hard to do.

I think RT17 meant "pre-sold"

I felt like we couldn't have played any worse than we did those 1st 3 quarters and some of that I do accredit to Holy Cross' D, but some of it was also every team has an off night and ours happened to be for a very important game for district seeding. If I'm not mistaken, that was our worst FG shooting effort of the year. That's how it goes. I am sure both teams will be ready for each other's best effort come 2/23/17.

Largest lead of the game was 44-21 HC with 3:01 left in the 3rd Quarter. The Tigers cut it to 3 two times in the 4th..the last at 54-51 with about 30 seconds to go.

Covington Catholic vs Holmes is Wednesday 7pm Holy Cross vs Beechwood is Thursday 7pm

Please refer to this thread: http://bluegrasspreps.com/ky-boys-basketball/2017-35th-district-343551.html

Congrats Sumo...it looks like if I had started Brady instead of Ryan, I would have tied with you

I would imagine that Matty Ice has the highest QB rating for a losing Super Bowl QB?

Has a Super Bowl winning QB ever thrown a pick 6 in their game?

Before the Super Bowl, I told most everyone I knew that asked me for my opinion that I felt the Patriots would win, but I would be rooting for Atlanta because I just wanted to see someone else win one. Believe it or not, the only play I got to see live was the bolded above. I remember thinking to myself two things. Why on God's green earth, would a team who has a 16 point lead with 8.5 minutes left in the game pass the ball on 3rd and a long 1? and after the play, I said to myself, that play may later cost them the game.

Is that what we're calling it now?

It doesn't matter who is quarterbacking Cleveland right now. You have to be able to keep whoever is back there upright. For what it's worth, Cody Kessler had a good few games with the Browns and could (I said could) be their future QB, but again, you have to build an offensive line that can protect him. Right now, it's just not there.

Received word from Holy Cross' AD that the tournament will be held on Wednesday, February 22, Thursday, February 23, and Saturday, February 25. One game per night at Holy Cross' Monsignor Finn Activity Center.

I figured Fort Knox to be Army brats, disciplined, methodical, defensive-minded. So much for stereotypes.

good win for the Breds, knew it would be a close one for the most part

1st loss by Tigers' JV

I don't see you

Unless otherwise noted, all games are at Ludlow HS: Monday, January 16 7pm - Heritage @ Dayton 7pm - Lloyd @ Beechwood 7pm - Bellevue @ Ludlow Tuesday, January 17 Upper Bracket 6pm - NewCath vs Heritage-Dayton winner 7:30pm - Newport vs Holy Cross Wednesday, January 18 Lower Bracket 6pm - St. Henry vs Lloyd-Beechwood winner 7:30pm - Villa Madonna vs Bellevue-Ludlow winner Friday, January 20 6pm - Upper Bracket Semifinal 7:30pm - Lower Bracket Semifinal Saturday, January 21 7pm - Championship Game

I'm in as far as I can tell.

thanks for the info

I heard Beechwood defeated Holy Cross in the final by around 15. Anyone have details?