Rez

Based on my rankings the teams have the following results: Team A: 3-4 vs top 25 17-0 vs the rest of the state. Team B: 0-5 vs top 25 18-3 vs the rest of the state. Seems pretty simple to me that Team A (Walton-Verona) has a better resume.

Covington did a great job defending Harmon, and the Cardinals as a whole had a great defensive strategy against him. He was held scoreless for the first quarter. When Scott Co is clicking they are flat out dominant.

Agreed. If you see a steep decline in their play without Payne, go ahead and drop them. But to arbitrarily drop them because it is assumed they won't be as good as they have been to this point seems unfair to me.

1 Scott Co 2 Trinity 3 Covington Catholic 4 Butler 5 Madison Central 6 Ballard 7 Lafayette 8 Cooper 9 Fern Creek 10 Bryan Station 11 Doss 12 Lexington Catholic 13 Lexington Christian 14 Walton-Verona 15 Oldham Co 16 GRC 17 Mayfield 18 Warren Central 19 McCracken Co 20 Mercer Co 21 Christian Co 22 Campbell Co 23 John Hardin 24 Waggener 25 Fairdale

Curious why Lexington Catholic isn't in the top 20. Their only losses in state are to top 10 teams save for an OT loss to Newport. They also have two wins over LCA, and a blowout win over Corbin (though that was a long time ago). I know they got demolished by Madison Central, but so did Ballard. I think their results certainly merit a ranking, unless it is based on the fact that they won't have their best player moving forward.

Bryan Station jumped out to a quick 8-2 lead, but once Lafayette got their press going it turned around quickly. By the end of the first quarter the Generals were up 25-13 and I don't think the margin ever got under about 8 the rest of the way. Boone is really good, but he didn't have much help in this one. Surratt was unstoppable inside for Lafayette. When I'd watched them a couple times earlier this year they have seemed to play better when he wasn't in, but this game he was dominant.

It was frustrating to show up at 7:20 for a game that was on the KHSAA scoreboard as starting at 7:30 only for the game to already be over.

Lexington Catholic destroyed a pretty solid Corbin team, but that was 2 months ago.

You can blame me for that one. When I showed up John Hardin was up 20-8, but once I got there it was ugly. I don't actually think the Scott Co game is what hurts them near as much as the losses to Etown and Adair Co. They were also hurt by Tilghman having a bad week which takes a little bit of the shine of one of their best wins. That along with a 2-3 record against other teams in the 15-30 range is why I have dropped them out. I feel similar with both John Hardin and Pulaski Co that they are a good enough team to be in the 15-20 range, but a couple losses to weaker teams coupled with a lack of big time wins has me keeping them on the outside for now.

1 Scott Co 2 Trinity 3 Covington Catholic 4 Fern Creek 5 Bryan Station 6 Madison Central 7 Lafayette 8 Doss 9 Ballard 10 Butler 11 Cooper 12 Lexington Christian 13 Walton-Verona 14 Lexington Catholic 15 Campbell Co 16 Oldham Co 17 Mercer Co 18 GRC 19 Henry Clay 20 Corbin 21 Mayfield 22 Waggener 23 Warren Central 24 Ashland 25 McCracken Co

Agree. My top 2 as well.

Knox built a big lead early and were up double digits most of the game, but Frederick Douglas got it down to 2 with the ball with around 3 minutes left, but missed a 3. Adams had a huge first quarter with 4 3s, and Turner took over in the 4th quarter to help Knox hold on. He made it look easy to get to about 10 ft and hit the short jumper nothing but net.

True. Like I said, I have no idea if middle schools have their own set of rules, or if they use those of another organization.

There are at least 10 teams who have a decent chance to come out of that quarter of the bracket. I don't see any of those teams going all the way, but that should produce 3 highly competitive games on their way to the semi.

I ran the time/scoreboard for a small college a decade ago and the rules at that time matched what this official did. If the team that called the timeout indicated their intent to end the timeout (break the huddle and return to the floor) then the 15 second warning horn was sounded and the other team was required to return to the floor. With that said, I have no idea what rules a 6 grade game is under.

1 Scott Co 2 Trinity 3 Covington Catholic 4 Ballard 5 Bryan Station 6 Fern Creek 7 Madison Central 8 Lafayette 9 Doss 10 Butler 11 Cooper 12 Walton-Verona 13 Lexington Catholic 14 Lexington Christian 15 Paducah Tilghman 16 Corbin 17 Campbell Co 18 Mercer Co 19 Oldham Co 20 GRC 21 Waggener 22 Collins 23 Christian Co 24 Mayfield 25 John Hardin *I do mine every Sunday, so this was before the All A Championship game.

Pulaski seems a little high. They aren't a bad team, but they don't have any great wins, and they are coming off a loss to Estill Co.

Knott was very physical with Draud and he had some trouble dealing with it. That's tough for a freshman, but learning from it will make him better. He's got a bright future. Great win for Knott. They will have a tough time with LCA, but it's been a strong run so far.

Walton-Verona plays very strong defense and gets good looks on almost every offensive possession. I really enjoyed the way Grubbs played. Good effort, seems like a very smart player. Overall, they just appear to be very well coached. You can see Harlan is a very good offensive player for Clinton Co. He just didn't have much support.

Mayfield has a good team. At times it looked like they would run away with it. They had a couple runs where it felt like they scored 8 straight in under a minute. Then they hit some terrible slumps. They probably had 6-8 turnovers in the last couple minutes and really couldn't get it settled down. Somerset played hard all the way to the end. They just settled for too many threes in the last couple minutes when Mayfield kept giving them chances. Those were probably shots they hit a lot of times, but they didn't have the legs left to hit them after 2 grueling games.

Basically every eligible team plays in it, so that should answer your second question.

I'm planning to watch all 8 games tomorrow, and there is at the very least something I am looking forward to seeing in every game except this one. Can anyone please tell me something to be excited for in the Raceland/Collegiate matchup?

I still lean toward Fern Creek at 1, but the top 3 teams are all arguably top 10 in the state. There are also very good teams all the way down through the top 8. I also thought Fern Creek would run away with this one, but it is going to take a great effort to make it through the region.

I think LCA's 15 point win over Mercer Co without LCA's best player would rank up there with any of the other teams best wins. Walton-Verona also had some quality wins in the KOB including Mercer Co and had a nice win this past week at Campbell Co. Those are 3 very good teams and I expect one of them will win the tournament.

Does anyone know anything about Lynn Camp? They have a great record against a weak schedule. Someone told me this might be their best team ever. Will they bring a strong crowd?