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I only have one of our (Lexington Catholic) win over Louisville Male my junior year. That Male team had Chris Barclay who was a great running back at Wake Forest and Michael Bush as a wide reciever. Their QB was Blackerby(spelling?) at the time before I believe an injury a few weeks later ended his season. In Lex Cath history, that was one of the biggest wins we ever recorded beating one of the Big 3 in Louisville. Other than that, two O-linemen friends of mine have a few game tapes from senior year that I watched with them once or twice and laughed about. Hated getting to finally watch Highlands end my high school career on film.

I'm confused, what would have changed one of these two getting the vote if it had been unfair or biased? I can only assume you mean Novosel would have gotten the vote, but considering the grand total of Zero Lex Cath girls to have ever recieved Miss Basketball, I don't see a problem there. Then look at the city the girls you named versus Novosel is from and I see Louisville being a bigger bonus. Novosel has more hype I guess would be the final arguement, but I would think Reid had just as much if not more and I think Gibbs might be going to the best program of the three so who knows.... In all honesty, Gibbs deserved the award in the end for leading her team to the championship. All three girls really were one girl shows for their teams in the end. Novosel might have had the best supporting player in Green, however this year Green was very inconsistent. I don't know what the head to head was for Fern Creek and Butler if they played at all, but I also know that Lex Cath played Butler in December and beat them pretty soundly.

No worries, I didn't take it as critical of Lex Cath. I was just stating my opinion of Lex Cath's speed. I agree long and aggressive also account for a lot of the Knight's defensive pressure.

Botkin has a bit more quickness than you might think. Tribble also isn't necessarily fast but does well guarding and pressuring other team's guards on defense. Finally, I'd say while he doesn't get a lot of play, and is totally out of control at times, Corvin, an occassional 4 or 5 for the Knights has speed. Was a star wide reciever for the school.

I'm gonna assume Mason Co. vs. Elliot is at the half???

Lexington Catholic just needs to keep playing their game. Team ball and tons of pressure. No game can be overlooked and I doubt the team will do that. Go Knights, good luck tomorrow.

I missed the game today so I don't know how bad in person it looked, but I'd give UHA a bit of a break. I saw Bryan Station get dismantled handling the Lex Cath pressure when these two played, and I am pretty certain Bryan Station is a better team than what I got to see. However, Lex Cath brings the pressure hard, and with their length, size, physicality, really get in team's heads. They can make good teams look bad at times. Still, find a team with a ball handler or two who can remain calm and not force things and I think Lex Cath can suffer some.

He played. Simple as that. He recieved inappropriate funds from the school because of hardships in paying the tuition therefore being a violation of KHSAA regulations. Therefore when the KHSAA lowered the hammer, they took away victories in which an athlete involved in the violations participated. Check the football wins/losses from the same time period, they got hit the worst. I went from playing for four seasons and having a total of 7 losses in my high school career to playing four seasons and having a total of 20+ losses after the KHSAA enforced everything.

I think the point is that, for Scott Co. the transfer of Dakotah is quite fortuitous as it gives them a very dominating front line, one that was already quite impressive before hand. While the program's prestige probably helps in the drawing process, it is lucky for them to have a player of that caliber land in their laps. Just as if Lex Cath, Dunbar, Madison Central, etc. were to have had him suddenly transfer there it would be quite lucky and by chance that they happened to land him.

That wouldn't be the case because Green was a starter and played in all games, as was the case for the rest of the starters. I believe and this is me just trying to remember since its been awhile but there was a freshman involved in Lex Cath's KHSAA violations who also played football at the school that year who was rarely used in both sports but did get some playing time occassionally, mainly in mop up situations, and that is where the forfeits came from in both sports. The student left the school after that year to go to another Lexington school.

Happy to see the Knights won today. I only got to catch this on the radio seeing as I was at work all day, but it sounded as if Lex Cath really brought the defense in the first half before wilting a bit in the second half. Still, this team has a lot of weapons you must contain and you have to do it the entire 32 minutes because one let up can mean a quick run.

I'll be there if Lex Cath can manage to make it to Saturday. Otherwise I'm stuck at work Wed and potentially Friday at 12 (of course provided Lex Cath even wins the first game).

It varies, I think sometimes Tribble has started instead. Vee is a good player. Best on the team?? I didn't think so only because his decision making isn't necessarily the best. He definately handles the ball the best as a PG in pressure situations but he takes some poor shots. As stated in another thread, Lex Cath isn't a team of one or two players but a complete team that has multiple players that fit their roles. Any one game a guy can step up. Vee is a huge part of the team, but its hard to claim a best player on Lex Cath's team.

Bummer, guess I need to know where to do my research before I start a thread. However, I figured one school would be bigger than Owensboro but I wasn't aware of the size of Greenwood and South Laurel. Still, it brings a question as to why bigger schools don't seem to be as dominant when it comes to both football and basketball. Male might be the best big school at both sports.

I was looking at a line up of the schools in the sweet 16 and wondered if Owensboro is the largest school in the tournament this year??? If so that is surprising. Even if they aren't, I can't imagine there being too many more schools bigger in this tournament. With I believe someone said 5 All A teams also in the tourny along with many mid sized schools, what is up with bigger schools not being as competitive for the state tournament?? I'm pretty sure this concept has been mentioned in the past state tournys, but just looking at this years I'm just surprised, is there even a 6A school(football wise) in the tournament?

Agreed, I'm not very shocked Mason is leading this right now. The memory of two very close games against Lex Cath should stand out in people's minds also with the two teams splitting.

I'd say he was just stating that with the fan support, Mason Co. will get pushed over the top in a poll like this about every time. With the way Lex Cath blew through the 11th I find it hard to think they wouldn't be favored some in the sweet 16. Of course, Mason does seem to have an easier journey to the final versus Lex Cath so that could play heavily on the Knight's chances.

No offense to Mason because I know they are good but their hype early season really fizzled some late season. The final regular season loss to Bryan Station might have also hurt some in the eyes of outsiders. On the other side, Lex Cath and Bryan Station really were playing on a different level inside the 11th region the past couple weeks. Summary, national rankings are just fun fan site material but not much more. I think anyone in this state knows that Mason Co. belongs at the top with the other two teams.

Bryan Station at 32...

I know Hopson and Edmonson are supposed to be great players and everything, however, I think a lot of people are overlooking the fact that while all year Lex Cath has been talked about having Stewart and Novosel as the stars, yet it was Jordan Smart who was 11th region MVP and it was Vee Sanford who came through in the clutch the first times they played Mason and Scott Co. Throw in Taylor Botkin who really can do just about everything on the court and you have a tough starting five that are all 6'0"+. The bench doesn't necessarily bring the scoring threats as much but defensively the Knights can throw a lot of good players at you. This game can be very close, however I'd take a team with five really good players who can score 20+ on any given night versus a team with two great players who are capable of scoring 20+. Either way, I am bummed that I'll be working all day wednesday meaning i'm gonna miss this first round matchup.

Personally I don't take much stock in comparing one team's performance against a team to another team's performance against the same team. And your logic of the Ballard games seems the most far fetched. All in all, I think its looking at what big wins these two teams have had this year against other good teams and while UHA has had some good ones, Lex Cath has some huge ones. Still, any given night is the motto I like best in sports and Lex Cath can't just walk on the court and expect to win this one in a cake walk.

Really?? I don't believe anybody thought Lex Cath could stop Mack yet a mixture of Vee Sanford, Jordan Smart, and Taylor Stewart really seemed to have him rattled some. I'm not saying Hopson can't drop double digits on Lex Cath however he will need a team effort to help him some. As for Lex Cath, they have to handle the ball well and just keep to their gameplan of mixing inside play with Novosel versus the outside shooting of Smart, Stewart, etc. and the occassional penetration inside of Sanford and Stewart.

I think you are misunderstanding things. No one is getting sensitive or offended here. I just stated my opinion that the game wasn't called as closely. I also went on to say I thought Novosel got away with couple blocks on Bryan Station shots where I thought he actually fouled the shooter. Otherwise, I just disagreed with your opinion of the Combs foul where he got the T. It was definately a foul and afterwards it did appear he was taunting Botkin. Either way, I thought the biggest negative for Bryan Station was that they didn't handle the Lex Cath pressure early on and Lex Cath turned their turnovers into points. This and Comb's early fouls seemed to slow down Bryan Station's tempo some.

Actually, the game didn't seem that closely called to me. There was a lot of hand checking and pushing on defense by both teams in my opinion. Novosel had a couple of blocks that I thought looked like fouls also. However, that technical was on a block and I believe Combs got called not for blocking but for too much body on a block. He then appeared to be taunting, not going after Botkin. That is how most people interpreted it where I sat. Whether it was good or not, I don't know, but he definately said something after the play.

A very true statement. This team is full of role players even amongst their stars and each one plays his part to the fullest in order to keep the team running. I am gonna remain realistic about this team's chances to win state, seeing as any given night a team can step up and pull the upset. However, its gonna take getting this group out of sync and forcing them to play out of their comfort level to really shut them down.