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Went to the region in both 2020 and 2021 (the '21 team beat Rockcastle in the first round before losing to Boyle). Prior to that, East hadn't been to region since 2014.

First region tournament game victory for Cumberland County since 1990, coincidentally also a victory over Barren County. The Panthers lost to Bowling Green in the semifinals that season, 76-68.

After twenty consecutive first round losses from 1990-2020, Southern has now won their opener in two of the last three 11th Region tournaments.

I think his name will come up at Indiana if Mike Woodson doesn't make it.

Drew is an interesting choice. I think he'd do a really good job. He's also been consistently mentioned as a replacement for Calipari if/when Cal decides to retire. If he went to Louisville, not only would he make the Cardinals better, he'd likely be altering the future plans of their biggest rival in the process.

Jeffersontown in March is a hard club to beat.

Holy Cross has only played in the region tournament three times, losing first round games to Southern in 1987, Fairdale in 2008, and Doss in 2015.

Shaka has been very successful at schools without football and performed quite poorly at the one football school where he coached. Louisville is known for basketball but they have a very successful football program, a local coach, and a typically engaged fanbase. Could Shaka handle that?

I do wonder if the NIL and transfer stuff gets regulated in some way (either by the NCAA or Washington) if that might open the door for a return to college by some guys who have moved on to the NBA and NFL. If I'm someone like Billy Donovan, who hasn't been in college in ten years, now isn't the time I want to return with so much uncertainty in the stuff surrounding college sports.

I would think $10 for a two-game session is a pretty normal rate for region tournaments.

And with split sessions for the semifinals. First game is at noon on Saturday; second game tips at 4pm.

If you are a casual fan who just watches basketball to be entertained, you have to be tuning into Kentucky every single time they are on.

Danville gave DCA all it wanted for almost three quarters but Grace Mbugua really took over in the third and fourth quarter.

Driver was outstanding all night going against the size of DCA. He was named tournament MVP and rightfully so. Bodner gave strong minutes against the DCA big men, too. And I'm glad you mentioned Lyndon Smith, who didn't produce much against Lincoln last night but was very, very good this evening. Terrific basketball game and a really nice win for Boyle.

I think that's coming. There's been a lot of chatter about it from higher-ups in the last couple months. I suspect it will happen within the next two years.

Any idea how much money they'll want to spend?

I think JCPS should build a new school at Seneca and put in a nice gym similar to the one at Valley. It would be convenient to the east side of the county plus not too far from downtown. Then hold the 7th Region there every year.

8th Region draw will be on Sunday afternoon every year until Jesus comes, won't it?!

Speaking as someone who is interested and likes to learn things, this would have been a good time for the KHSAA to shoot out a press release describing what this is and why it is being played this way. I know it was mentioned at the Board of Control meeting but it wasn't on the press release (linked below). It kind of feels like this is being slid in as a trial run without making it a big deal. That's fine, but it also doesn't seem fair that four teams lost in the first round of their district tournaments earlier this week and still get to keep playing while a whole lot of other first round losers have already put the uniforms away. https://khsaa.org/02-20-24-board-of-control-approves-draft-of-2025-2026-football-alignment/

Can college coaches call a live-ball timeout? I thought they took that away a few years back?

East and West opened in 1997-98. Neither team made the region that season. East lost to Lexington Catholic; West lost to Sayre (this was back in their 11th Region days). At least one of the two have played in every region tournament since then.

Been really quiet. I've not even heard rumors beyond what @Colonels_Wear_Blue posted a month ago.

How big was getting the 1-seed in this district? Any of Somerset, Pulaski, or Rockcastle would have been a heavy favorite against Casey County while whichever teams had to play in the 2/3 game knew it would be an absolute battle.

As a long time high school basketball fan it was really odd seeing PRP playing in the 4/5 game the other night.