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Have to throw Cameron Browning- Male, Jasmine Elder-Butler and Nila Blackford - Manual in the mix! All three play incredibly tough schedules, had multiple D1 offers and will play at a D1 school next season. All also are having great seasons!

So will the Eastern, Male, Sacred Heart, Christian Academy, Assumption and Manual kids who would all win many Regions but only one will advance.

Since when is Mercer in the top 20? They are wayyy far from top 20 and probably would be the 11th best team in the 7th Region but nothing new there with teams out in the state.

Congrats to her! How many years did she play varsity?

Assumption starts out incredibly slow with starters committing 9 Turnovers in first quarter, and Highlands races to 28-10 lead at half. Assumption fights back in 3rd quarter with many reserves contributing and cutting lead to 8 after 3rd. 4th quarter shows Assumption continuing to cut down lead but down stretch Highlands hits 4 for 4 clutch FTs to ice game. Leading scorers - Hayes - 17 from Highlands, Cronen - 12 Assumption.

Cheering for Ryle as a basketball fan of girls teams in Kentucky!

THIS TIMES A MILLION! Why are they even playing???? That is my question!

Etown has a beast of an 8th grader, Xaviera Smalley! Kid played very well against Anderson County at the Bullitt East Holiday Tournament!

Thank you for this information, and I knew the 9th was loaded.

Northern Kentucky has been very strong for many years but curious if these teams are all in the same region? If so, that would be brutal because I know the Seventh Region has 4 teams in this ranking and that leaves out Christian Academy which has regularly been ranked in top 12-15 by coaches.

There are about 5-6 teams in the 7th Region that could make the state in 10 of Regions! Unfortunately, they are in a loaded Region, which had the 5th or 6th best team, Christian Academy add a transfer from a West Virginia HS who is originally from Russia! She can flat out ball!

Apparently someone forgot to let Manual (7th Region) aware that they are not top 20 as they defeated Owensboro Catholic by 4 or 5 at Franklin County this past Saturday. They are surely a top 20 team!

This although the 6th is basically Mercy and Butler and no one else. The 7th will have 5-6 teams that are probably top 25 in the state. 9th also has a plethora of great teams!

Man, I love reading the Northern Kentucky game and fan threads if for nothing else, the comedic value and fandom! Good stuff! By the way, the greatest athlete ever at Campbell County HS was Chuck Harmon! Look him up!

Not sure CAL or Male will win the 7th Region, let alone the state. But both are impressive as CAL somehow having a 4-5 star Russian player who was playing in West Virginia, land in their lap surely helped them out.

I would put as much stock as any other ranking. Every ranking I see has biased rankings depending upon whose travel team the player plays for, whose high school team they play for, etc. I take all of the rankings with a grain of salt in all of these sports. There are kids in other sports who will play for high division 1 programs not ranked in the top 25-50. Cross Country and Track are the only accurate rankings because, guess what, you either run fast or you don't.

This sounds like Assumption's basketball program in a nutshell! Heard Summer ball for Assumption was going extremely well with Stacy Pendleton at the helm!

That's some funny stuff but when your coach claims his team is so fast and puts a kid down for four stolen bases in a game against your team when she had zero, I suppose you can figure out which coaches are influencing the voting with fake stats and pressuring for their kids to get on a team. Thankfully college coaches don't pay attention to these teams!

Yeah, it's easy to dominate in certain areas of the state. Looking at this tournament, I'm guessing that there are 5-6 teams in the Jefferson County area who are saying "yeah, we could win this thing!"

Maranda Thomas carries Assumption at the plate going 4 for 4 and Olivia Casey pitches nice complete game in the circle!

7th Region semifinals. Not a huge upset as Ballard has shown itself to be as good or better than Male this year, but breaks Male's 5 year streak of 7th Region titles.

Agree completely on volleyball. To be sure, it is the number 1 sport/issue that is taking away from HS basketball, at least in Kentucky, in my opinion. However, you mention soccer and while it might take away from softball, it also takes away from basketball because the AAU basketball seasons and club soccer seasons overlap in the Spring as well. The move to make kids decide on one sport year-round, has taken away from HS basketball with soccer kids, as well as volleyball kids. At least, this is what I see with my own experience in those arenas.

I understand what you mean by that except for the emergence of those other sports due to Title IX and college scholarships has caused people to push their kids towards just playing one sport and basketball has absolutely suffered as a result!

It has hurt it to the extent that Field Hockey, Lacrosse, Volleyball and Soccer have taken kids away from the sport!

Interesting if Eric Browning would throw his hat in the ring.