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14th: Alan Hatcher- with all his accomplishments, its hard not to put this guy at number one. Al Holland- multiple regional titles and his teams always compete in the region. However, he has been the coach at the region's largest school (but now may be second largest to LCC), so it will be interesting to see how he does at Hazard. Kyle Lively- led Jackson City to its best year ever, and had a very successful year at Powell County before losing to the eventual regional champs, JBS. He also has two Coach of the Year awards in just two years of coaching, pretty impressive. Gary Stepp- has turned June Buchanan who was always at the bottom of the region into a very competitive team. They won the region last year, went to the semi-finals the year before, and are the favorite this year. John Noble- has turned Buckhorn completely around. They have been very competitive the last few years, and should compete again this year.

Must of been an exciting game. I'm glad to here Davidson was a key player in this game after having a dissapointing season. Is the Charles that you mentioned the kid from Lee County? I watched him a few times during the season and was very impressed.

I had heard he was waiting to see if any D1 offers came up, but now I think he is going to sign with Pikeville.

Wow, talk about adding fuel to the fire. One can only imagine what the games will be like when these two teams play this upcoming season.

Congrats to Hicks and Stepp from the 14th.

Glad to see Billy G working hard. I would love to see Miller come to UK.

Congrats to Coach Lively. He is a class act and well deserving of this award.

Congrats to Hazard.

It wasn't the best called game, but JBS just played great and Breathitt played their worst game of the season. At one time JBS was up by as much as 30+. I think the district loss might have helped the Crusaders quite a bit. I think Stepp had around 25 and Cox was close to 20 as well. The younger Stepp also had around 15 or so and was the real reason why the Crusaders was able to pull away in the first half. Even though they lost, the Bobcats still had a great year. From just winning four games to having the year like they did this year, it says a lot about the coaches and the players.

Congrats to the Bobcats. Should be a dandy between them and the winner of the JBS/Powell game.

I'll say the Pats by 10.

I'm going to go with Buckhorn by seven.

I think it might be Steve if I'm not mistaken. You are right though, there are two Evans on the team, but I think this one is their starting point guard.

Romans-Powell Clark Stepp and Cox-JBS Hollan and Smith-Breathitt Evans-Wolfe Congelton-Owsley Blank and Gay-Buckhorn Hicks-Hazard Mosley and Stamper-KCC

Congrats to Coach Lively and Powell.

This game should not have been this close, but a good win for JBS nonetheless.

WOW! Congrats to Coach Noble and the Wildcats.

My top three would be (in no order): Lively-Powell Banks-Breathitt Noble-Buckhorn

Well if nobody cares about last year, why did you start arguing with me about it?

Congrats to Hazard. How did Hicks do?

Wow! Congrats to the Owls.

Just because you have the same players, doesn't mean you have the same "team". Breathitt had a complete different attitude and style of play last year, which would make them different from this year. Plus even if you do want to talk about losing players, Jackson lost three seniors last year, who contributed a lot. So if you want to be one of these people that think Breathitt is just the best team in the region every year, then you are free to do that. But the majority of people would agree with me that Jackson would have won if these two teams played each other last year.

How are they the same teams? Jackson last season had one of the best teams in the region and Breathitt had one of the worst. If you watched Jackson play last year and compare them with how they play this year, you can tell that they are different teams. Same with Breathitt. If Breahitt and Jackson would have drew each other last year, Jackson would have won easily. I'll give you that Breathitt does have the better team this year, all I am saying is that Jackson has never beat Breathitt before, and there is no doubt in my mind that if they would have played each other last year, Jackson would have won.

I would love to see Jackson pull the upset, but I just don't think it will happen. I think it will be close for a while but Breathitt will end up pulling away. If only these two teams played each other last season. Breathitt 74-60.

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