Shadow_Son

Really lackluster display from the purples and maybe a worrisome one. Not a ton of cohesion offensively for most of the game and a clear inability to stop the ball in transition. However, this is what makes the purples so scary. They played hard for a total of 4 minutes tonight, the last 4 of the game and they still won. They are very clearly 17-25 points better than franklin but they let off the gas and coast too much some times. Almost cost them tonight, and it's the "we'll just flip the switch when we need too" mentality that gets good teams beat in march. There aren't many teams in the state if any who can turn it on and shut a teams water off quite like BG. Play consistently hard for 4 quarters and I don't think there is a team in the state that can beat them. Coast and take it easy and they can be beat on any night.

Bowling Green loses to the eventual state champion for 3 years running. Dunbar the best team in it. What a great run from them!

Opening Round 1 Murray 1 Newport Central Cath 1 Dunbar 1 Bowling Green 1 Doss 1 Taylor Co 1 Christian Co 1 South Oldham Quarter-finals 2 Murray 2 Bowling Green 2 Doss 2 Christian Co Semi-finals 3 Bowling Green 3 Christian Co 2016 Sweet 16 State Champion Bowling Green TB 125

Bowling Green, but not by the same margin as last season.

5 in 8 trips to the finals. Every time he has made the 4th region tournament as a Bowling Green coach, he has made at least the finals and is 17-0 in the tournament against teams outside the 14th district. Also 5-4 in the state tournament with a final four and a runner up.

D.G. Sherrill wins his 5 regional title in 8 tries a Bowling Green coach, including 4 of the last five and each of the last 3. Also first school to sweep the boys and girls crowns in the 4th region in the same season since 1983. Congrats to the purples! Best team in the region bell to bell and can't wait to see if they can continue their magic at rupp!

Chane was a very good individual player but didnt match bowling green's run and gun pressing style at the time and his lack of desire to press as well as his obvious need to have the ball slowed BG's style and pace so much that they didnt win a regional title while he was there. I still believe they would have won both '10 and '11 had they had Vic Smith instead of CB (many have called me outright insane for that statement but i stand by it - central certainly benefited from his transfer). A series of questionable at best officiating calls in 2010 cost BG in a thrilling double OT final, and '11 was one of the most monumental collapses I have ever witnessed in high school ball game. No excuses for losing when you are up double figs under 2 to play. Central won both years but many believed BG had the more talented teams both goes. Riley had the magic touch. Glad those days are long gone, ha.

Im glad you joined in dragonfire. A continual voice of reason and fairness.

Ah, all fun and games. Just nice to kick a former power while they're down because they did more than their fair share of pounding teams inside and outside of this region for a long, long time. I did compliment Central several times in my posts stating that they had an incredible run and unprecedented region and state success (see, i've done it twice here). But, choose to look past that if you will - I feel I have been rather fair and honest. My only beef was WC seemed to always get a pass when it came to the whole "transfer" situation, and BG is seen as some sort of cheating villain all of the sudden. Oh well.

Him and his brother Trey Jones came from Adair County after Kyran's eighth grade year.

Warren central kept it in the city limits? What planet are you from? They had a transfer from Louisiana start for them last year and was second in scoring. The anderson brothers who won them their only state title were imports from out of state. #30 from Russell County last night played at Christian County 2 years ago and Warren Central last year. And as for Cristian County, a very good player by the name of Anthony Hickey came to them from Tennessee after his freshman year and won them a state title and Mr. Basketball. Again, refrain from making silly/unfounded comments if you don't want to be called out.

Warren Central is in this tournament (well not anymore) and in the region, so they are pretty involved. For WKY to throw stones about a team having no home grown players when the best dynasty the 4th region has ever seen (WC) based their entire program on kids that didnt grow up in their system. Go on somewhere unless you would like to argue that my statement isnt valid.

Pretty funny statement given Warren Central ran the 4th region for over a decade with next to no home grown players whatsoever. Everyone loves to hate ol Bowling Green. And what about christian county and hoptown? Those kids trade schools like nba players. Tired argument used by moronic haters.

Seeing he scored 28 against BG a year ago in the region semis and missed a couple freebies late...I'd say a year more seasoned with a shot at rupp on the line as a senior it isnt out of the question, no?

Barren County has an incredibly smart X's and O's coach that can keep them in every game - They also have a division 1 commit to Costal Carolina in Wade Coomer who can go for 40 on any given night and can shoot from the parking lot. Bowling Green is the clear favorite, but this game will not be a cake walk especially when you lose 12 points and 11 rebounds in the form of Jones. Discounting his absence is rather naive.

So Bowling Green should be thankful that they will be without a kid who is averaging a double double for the year for a region final and a possible state tournament first round game? Gotcha.

Bowling Green will have an incredibly tough decision to make tomorrow. It is not out of the question that submitting the fight for review to the KHSAA could result in several other kids from BG being punished and or suspended for leaving the bench and for getting involved in the altercation (be that shoving or trying to separate players). While the officials ejected the complete wrong kid and Russell county's #50 clearly instigated the event, what you don't want to have happen is a laundry list of other kids receiving suspensions and or punishment in addition to Jones' ejection for a regional final that could send you to rupp. It was a poorly handled game from start to finish from the second region officials that seemed to have zero control throughout the course of the game. Russell County's game plan was to rough up, cheap shot, and play mind games with Bowling Green just to have a punchers chance to keep this one close. They were outsized, outmatched, our talented, and out coached - so alternative avenues were required to compete. Tinsley is known to coach and teach these tactics to his players, so hats off to them for executing. In my opinion, Bowling Green will not appeal the suspension in fear of other multiple ramifications that could come from a video review. It is truly sad that a team that has a real shot at a state title run is penalized by the actions and antics of another team and coach, but it is also Bowling Green's responsibility to turn the other cheek and not react to the bully tactics. Sigh.

I believe that is the official end of the very impressive warren central dynasty. Program has been hanging on for the last 4 years but will be hard to recover from this one with not a lot waiting in the wings.

He has done well in AAU as well as high school, but doesnt get the pub because the level of competition he plays against. FS is known to schedule cupcakes, so it makes it more difficult for him to get the exposure he deserves.

McCracken County has a sweeeeet gym. State of the art. Tilghman has the coolest old feel/fieldhouse gym. Bowling Green is massive, one of the few schools with standing goals instead of suspended hoops and seats around 5k

Or, Bowling Green is really good. They have won 19 in a row. They have played 5 games in the last 9 days while hoptown has played 5 in the last 17 days? So, was Hoptown "tired"? How could they possibly be more tired than BG? Maybe you are just mad that Bowling Green is good and Warren Central is a dumpster fire with no light at the end of the tunnel in sight? To say they cruised past H-town (second win vs them this season) because they were tired is lazy from you.

Umm, there hasn't been a 14th district or 4th region team this heavily favored since WCs 2002-07 run. Warren Central is about 2 years away from being a has been program. It's pretty sad, south warren has destroyed that school with all of the kids and teachers they stole. BG took the region over and looking at the talent they have in their Fresh/JV/middle school teams, they aren't looking back anytime soon.

Unbelievable run by bowling green, one of the youngest teams in the tournament. Final four and runners up in back to back years is nothing to scoff at. They never get the credit they deserve and that's ok, that's the way they like it. Congrats to Owensboro. Hell of a team that is coached as well as any and built to win in this tournament.

This looks to be a battle of a senior laden team vs. talented youth and fresh legs vs. short rotation/double OT/tired legs. Either way, I expect it to be the best game of the day.

Knott players tweeting directly at KHSAA seems a little insane to me. I understand you feel you were robbed, but kcc has come to Lexington every year with huge expectations and couldn't get it done. If anyone really believes that the entirety of the KHSAA didn't want to see Mr. Basketball in the final then you need your head examined. This tournament is about who the best team is on that night, and it looked to me like knott got outplayed and out coached. Seems they are always humble in victory, but not so much in defeat. Last year when they lost to BG in the first round, BB blamed the refs and BGs physicality for the loss. When do the excuses end? Man up.