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Started off as a box and one and morphed into a man and box and one throughout the game. Boyle spent their day at practice preparing to attack the vaunted Lincoln 2-3 zone. Never saw it and had a rough time adjusting to a defense they weren't prepared to face. Coach Adams mentioned that on our radio show after the game. Great strategy move on Coach Jackson's part for sure.

Interesting. I assume they manned up on Hagen Tyler?

Some would question whether this should have been saved for a potential region matchup which has validity. Though by winning the District, Lincoln has a 1/3 chance of being on Wayne's side of the bracket and Boyle a 2/3 chance. At least I believe so.

Rough night for my Rebels. Lincoln County threw a new defense on the Rebels tonight and that made a huge difference in the game. Congrats to Lincoln on becoming the back to back champions of the 45th District.

 

Time for the 12th Region tournament!!!!! Win or go home time!!!!!!

Was it the 1-2-2/3-2 I saw in one of the videos? I've seen Lincoln play a bunch this year and don't believe I've seen them out of the 2-3 unless they were forced to play man cause of time/score.

When he shakes his head no, that is when Coach Adams ask him if he counted the player in the book and then counted the player on the floor and Bryant said no. I know this because I was the guy at the Computer with not much hair.

That tickled me.

I thought this was a terrible call personally:

 

WOW! That T was beyond ridiculous.

Decided to go here instead of the 42nd or 43rd. Partly because I really like the Frankfort Convention Center and I like District finals more with teams that are region favorites. Seems to be more joy and passion to win the game. Anyways...

First, the improvement Franklin County has made since I saw them in January is staggering. Franklin packed it in with a 2-3 and dared Woodford County to beat them from the outside. Woodford was all to willing to take the dare and it showed in the end. From the beginning to the end Franklin steadily extended the lead till the outcome wasn't in doubt about halfway through the 4th.

Franklin's hustle and effort was great all night. Ryan Schneider played his usual good game. Michael Clark stood out to me much more than he had previously, shot the ball well and finished at the rim. At least for one night, Diablo Stewart (their 8th grade PG), really seemed to have calmed down and didn't seem to force things like I'd seen in the past. Demarcus Kennedy was an absolute beast on the glass. Maybe I just noticed him more but I wouldn't be surprised if he had 15 boards, I'll be interested to see the box score.

Overall I was impressed with how much better Franklin County played. I still wouldn't expect them to compete with the Lexington schools at the Region Tournament. Of course I'd bet few expected them to win either game this week since they were 0-2 against both Frankfort and Woodford County yet they won both handily.

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If you know of where it shows the dates for all the Region tournaments on the site I'd like to know. I've searched all over and can't find it. Obviously the scoreboard will have them eventually but they won't until they are drawn, reported, etc. I like to be able to plan ahead, see where I could go each night.

Jekobi Wells definitely had the two most memorable plays of the night, both good and bad.

Good

With about 4-5 seconds left in the first half Paris forced a turnover and Wells ended up with the ball on the break. He went up and had a ridiculous one handed slam right in the face of a Bourbon Co player who fouled him. There was less than a second left when he made it. The gym went absolutely nuts. There were fans running down the sidelines, a guy behind me jumped from the second row over the first to run down the sideline. It was crazy. It was, without a doubt, the best dunk I've seen all year and I've seen 100+ games.

Bad

Paris was up by 5 with ~15 seconds left, got the ball (rebound or turnover, honestly don't recall), and passed it ahead to Wells. He went up for an uncontested two handed dunk, missed it, and as the ball was rattling around on the rim he just hung on it...and hung on it...did a chin up...and got T'd up. It was a no doubter in my opinion. Bourbon County hit both free throws to cut it to 3. Then had a contested look at a three at the buzzer that just rimmed out. Went around quickly and spun out, so it was just barely off.

So at the end of each half he probably had the most ridiculous play and boneheaded play I've seen all year.

Really no losers in this game.

 

Huge night in Paris for the entire community!!!!!

I came away a loser. Some jerk decided to knock off the side mirror of my car in the parking lot. :(

Not saying I'm for it or against it, but there is difference that I see between the cheerleaders and the fans, when it comes to cheering at free throws. And that's the fact that the cheerleaders are given unparalleled access to the baseline area around the basket. Yes, I've seen officials clear them out from the area immediately behind the lane when they're getting ready for free throws, but still, they have the opportunity to be a whole heck of a lot closer to the players/shooter than anybody else sitting in the stands. Just food for thought.

At most of the new gyms this is true but there are many, many gyms that have seating on the ends. And there is no clearing out for them either.

I would think they could but don't know for certain. I've seen it happen often and don't recall any issues with it. A quick search of some KHSAA cheerleading rules did find some regulations for basketball games but the only thing mentioned about the free throw was being outside the lane.

As a friend and I were discussing this morning, Catholic just knows how to win. They don't get sped up and make bad decisions even if they're trailing late. They don't force a bunch of bad shots and no one tries to be the hero.

This is very, very true. LexCath is definitely a well coached and disciplined bunch. They could have scored in the 70 's or 80's but that pace would have favored PLD more. The Knights did an excellent job of being patient on offense and letting Williams/Hollingsworth take tough, contested jumpers. I did think Dunbar played better defense last night than I'd seen all year from them.

It looks like the girls is seeded and the boys is draw in the 54 th

You are correct. I just have look at the wrong one. Sorry about that.

I think there are more than 4. Off the top of my head: 38,39,44,54,55

District Seeding Plans

I looked through them all last month and I found four, your list minus the 54th.

But there is no excuse for yelling racial slurs. If I were the KHSAA I would make sure that the offending school got the message that it will not be tolerated.

And this is precisely what I said when I said... "Not excusing it..."

And?

And...it's not difficult for teams/fanbases to develop bad blood when they play so frequently in such a short period of time.

South students yelling racial slurs all night at burg players. south administrators and adults should be ashamed.

Were you there? It may not have just been the student section.

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Not excusing it at all but this is the 4th times these two teams have played this year and 3rd time in 20 days.

Anyone else notice the exchange between Ogbogu for LexCath and Darius Williams for Dunbar?

In the second half Williams had a nasty block towards the LexCath bench on a drive by Ogbogu. Williams then turned and was jawing right in Ogbogu's face. Ogbogu walked away at first but then right before the inbounds he threw his shoulder into Williams hard, nearly knocked over. None of the officials saw any of it. Personally, I thought T's could have been given for both items, the jawing and shoulder, but amazingly both went unseen.

I do think that this game should be notice to everyone else in the 11th that next year's Dunbar team is going to be nasty. Taveion Hollingsworth, who had quite a game for himself tonight, Darius Williams, who will probably be the #1 player in the region coming in, and Dontell Brown are all back. Williams will be a senior, Hollingsworth and Brown juniors. They'll be a hungry team, and the experiences from this year and last means that they'll probably have picked up a thing or two about winning these types of games.

And #0, Jordan Lewis will be back. He played very well tonight. Justin Kelley will also be a senior next year, he did a good job of guarding Tanner Johnson tonight. They'll return all five of their top players from tonight.

I gotta get down there to see a game at Mason County's Fieldhouse. Last time I saw a game there was in the early 70s at Maysville High.

The Fieldhouse is one of my favorite high school gyms. Any high school basketball fan that hasn't been there should make the trip.

Only interesting thing for me from this one will be how many Justice can get. See if he can make up for those lost games and still make it to 2nd on the all-time list.

From the few times I've seen him this season, he generally does not go beyond 15 feet from the basket.....maybe occasionally just to handle the ball in a set---but not to shoot. He's quick for a tall guy. I think he had 7 steals last game. Not a great jump shooter but can hit some.

This is very accurate. If he's away from the basket it is just to clear the lanes for drives. He'll then cut to the basket for passes and offensive rebounds. He is very, very athletic for his size and can really cover ground well to block shots and get rebounds.

As far as who guards him...athletically Weyer is a better matchup. However he doesn't really drive to the basket or anything so I believe McDonald could guard him as well. In fact, given the rest of Trinity's roster (most kids can put it on the floor) my guess is that McDonald guards Spalding and Weyer checks Thieneman if NCC plays man.

One big factor for NCC will be that Weyer and/or McDonald will be able to pull Spalding from under the basket on defense. Their ability to shoot the ball will force him to respect that and negate some of his shot blocking ability in drives by others players. When he can float to the basket without fear of what the player he's guarding is going to do Trinity's defense becomes ridiculous. If he has to respect the jumpshot of the guy he's guarding their defense suffers.

Canceled according to the KHSAA scoreboard.

Being at home I'll go with NewCath to win a close, competitive game from two of the best in the state.

Lawnboy13 or anyone else, I'm planning on going to NewCath for the first time for this one, assuming I'm not snowed in. Not sure of the size of the gym or expected crowd and that sort of thing, any suggestions on when one should get there to beat the crowd?

I went with Henry Clay because each time a team in the 11th seems to be separating themselves another team knocks them back to the pack.

I know Johnson Central and Buckhorn were canceled. No knowledge of if it'll be rescheduled.