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Agreed. I wish we could have seen a Tilghman/Boyle game last year. I know CovCath beat Tilghman, but football is all about matchups and I think those two would have played an entertaining game.

I'm unfamiliar. Is this a typo?

Honestly, my first thought yesterday was if Ohio State might contact Calipari. Money wouldn't be an issue and they might see that the UK/Cal relationship isn't what it used to be. Perhaps a splashy, big name hire might help get Buckeyes basketball closer to where football is. I don't think Cal would go but I do think I'd kick the tires if I was Ohio State.

1. DCA 2. Boyle/Lincoln 3. Boyle/Lincoln 4. Danville 5. Garrard 6. KSD Not sure who will finish 2/3 due to tiebreakers. Whoever is 3rd has to play KSD, but they'll win that with ease, so you can go ahead and prepare for a Lincoln/Boyle district semifinal. Garrard and Danville will play each other with the winner facing DCA in the other semifinal. I believe the district meeting to set dates, times, etc. is next Wednesday, February 21.

Went to Somerset Christian for the first time earlier this year. Not sure what I was expecting, but their gym far exceeded my expectations. It was very nice and certainly capable of hosting a district tournament.

I made the above post on January 7. Several others said that Fleming had good pieces, it just hadn't been put together yet. I looks like they are firing on all cylinders now.

I didn't realize the school served students in all three counties. That's pretty cool. Is the old Grant High building still in Covington? I seem to remembering driving past a school in town once and wondered if it with the old Grant school.

There will be no disparaging of the beautiful Jack Coleman Gymnasium at Burgin High School on this forum, sir! 😂 Honestly, it does surprise me that they host the district tournament (All A and holiday tournaments are a different matter).

Might like Oldham County's chances better if it were a home game. However, catching St. X the night after their game with Male might negate the home court advantage. I think I'll take St. X but in a really good ballgame.

I think Cal's best defensive teams always had a top-tier rim protector. That allowed Kentucky to overplay and put more pressure on the ball because they knew there was protection in the back. They haven't had those top-tier shot blockers in recent years (even this year with 3 7-footers) and I think it has made the defense look even worse.

Big East game at 7, Big 8 game at 9, and a Big West (usually UNLV, New Mexico State, maybe a Loyola Marymount) game after Sportscenter at 11:30!

Standings going into tonight: DCA (7-0) Boyle County (4-2) Lincoln County (4-3) Danville (2-5) Garrard County (0-7) Games remaining: Garrard County at Boyle County (tonight) Lincoln County at Danville (tonight) DCA at Boyle County (February 13) DCA is already the #1 seed. Boyle and Lincoln will be 2/3 in some form; the 3-seed has to play KSD but it doesn't matter who that is, Boyle and Lincoln will play in the semifinals. Danville and Garrard will play in the first round with the winner getting DCA in the semifinals. So it is all essentially locked in right now.

They have all season. They are just very inexperienced and struggle to score. When their number two scorer got hurt, that made it even more difficult. I'm glad they haven't packed it in, though. Hopefully they'll put forth a good performance tonight. But as you said, it seems like Boyle is starting to round into shape after a bumpy first couple of months.

I'll add that I don't know him personally (or what he might want to do), but we share a mutual friend who absolutely raves about him as both a coach and a person.

Just bound and determined to use that apostrophe wrong, weren't they?! No clue who it will be until the draw is finalized but that 7th Region semifinal on Friday night is always good basketball.

Wagner would certainly seem like a good hire for Daviess County. He's done an outstanding job at McLean County and they have a lot of support and momentum right now. However, it is a small, rural job where talent runs in cycles.

I wanted to put them on the list as well but they were a #1 seed within the last decade so I held off. Definitely trending down, though.

Good question. I know both football and basketball drive to Tennessee (football has made a tradition of stopping at the University of Cumberlands and holding a walkthrough-type practice). I saw a picture of a Kentucky bus at Vandy yesterday so I'm not really sure.

I read his most recent book a couple months ago (Small Mercies). I had never read anything else of his so I decided to read him from Book 1 to the present. This was his first one and I'll describe it as okay, but I didn't love it.

If UK could offer him $1 million more than he makes, I'm sure he'd listen. But even with the expansion to 12 teams, making the playoff will be easier at Oregon than at Kentucky. And if he makes the playoff at Oregon he'll be in line for either a raise (negating the big UK difference) or a head coaching job (which will most certainly pay even more).

Five high schools - Stanford in the county seat, Crab Orchard, Hustonville, McKinney, and Waynesburg Memorial all in the county. Only Stanford played football. Basketball has long been very strong in the county. I've spoken with multiple football coaches from Lincoln County over the years who said their roster was primarily Stanford kids with a much small percentage coming from out in the county.

UNLV. I know they were cheating the entire time Tarkanian was there, but there should still be an appeal to playing in Las Vegas. However, seemingly every coach since Tark has been insanely boring and content to score 60 points per game and hope to win.

After watching him hobble against Newport, not playing was absolutely the right decision. Sacrificing a couple wins over the next 2-3 weeks is worth it if you can have him back close to full strength for the postseason.