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NCAA Certified events registration fees range anywhere from $600-$1000. Travel fees for tournaments (Airfaire) at least $400 per player, and rooms $100 per night, and meals. I would say for the Louisville Magic to fly to Vegas and play I would estimate $7000-$10,000 based on 10 players and 6 rooms for 5 nights. Most teams that are funded like EBYL nike teams dont charge the kids. So If Louisville Magic play in the 5 NCAA Certified events that would be around $50,000-$60,000. Would also have to cover gear, leaving a coach with $40,000 if his budget is $100,000. $600 registration $4,000 Airfaire $3,000 Rooms (6 rooms for 5 days) $1,000 meals Total= $8,600 Just an estimate. Have no way of knowing if this is how its done.

Heard Under Armor gave Ellis Myles $100,000 to fund Louisville Magic.

All head coaches are sent a ballot from the Ky All Stars organization. They are to nominate 10 Juniors they have seen that they think deserve a tryout to the Jr. All star. It is very similar to the senior tryout ballot. Only difference is the Sr. ballott includes top 3 choices for Mr. Basketball. The KABC's paid members only vote for player of the year, another player deserving of playing in the KABC's East/West game, and coach of the year in their respective regions. You do not have to be a paid member of the KABC to vote for Mr. Basketball or for kids to get a tryout for the Jr's

Can add Louisville Butler's Shaun Purlee per Jason Frakes.

If Martin is their throw in Guy then thats who you go with. Just seems when teams are in a hard deny you want to use height to help get it in. Martin may have been able to get the high pass. Really just surprised a Time out wasnt called it was close to a 5 second violation. I've witnessed a lot of games not been finished because teams cant hit their free throws down the stretch.

With the 3 point shot and the lack of quality free throw shooting today its not hard to lose a 4 point lead with 32.8 secs left. Thats a long time. Both Ballard and MC missed free throws during this time. Ballard hits both free throws late they are up 65-60 and at worst the three pointer ties it. I question having a big man take it out late. Seems like you would have someone taking the ball out who is a good passer and makes good decisions. Ballard had two timeouts left. I would think the first thing you tell whoever is taking it out to call time out if you have any doubts. As far as next year Ballard will be loaded and should win the region. Will be challenged by Trinity. There are rumors going around the Louisville area that Snyder and possibly Martin could go to prep school.

Cory Thomas-Fairdale Jailen Sanford-Moore

I think to win the state tournament you have to be able to execute and have go to plays in the clutch. Ballard relies on pressure defense and getting quick shots. They had a 16 point lead and played as if it was 2 point game. How many one on one shots did they take and miss running no time on the clock. Kelan Martin was a beast down low. Why not turn the ball over and be patient until you get him the ball on the block. MC didn not panic during any of their games when they got behind. They stayed in their box sets and re-set the offense when they didnt get what they wanted. They were patient and got the ball down low and took advantage of Ballard double teaming Hawkins. Taylor down low went to work late and had some big baskets down the stretch. Then Hawkins took over as usual. When the game is on the line in the state tournament one on one basketball will get you beat. Same thing happened to Eastern two years ago vs Christian Co.

Pretty cheap not having programs. As for losing money, I think they announced this tourney as the 3rd highest attendance. KHSAA needs to get busy and get a title sponsor.

I would say the people have spoken. Announced crowd tonight was just over 20,000. KHSAA will definitely like that. 3rd highest attendance ever for the semi-finals.

Player of the year and runner-up get invited to play. In the 6th region it is Derek Willis and Josh Payne. Also note that coaches cannot vote for their own player and you must be a member of the KABC to vote and for your player to be eligible. You would be surprised at how many coaches do not belong to the KABC.

PRP did not press at all in wins over Bullitt East and Butler. Got back and played a match-up zone. Completely confused Bullitt East holding them to 33 points. Butler also struggled vs the match-up. PRP can play at any speed right now. They also switch in their man to man that can cause problems if you are not used to it. If Homes struggles to get good looks against PRP's match-up I will take PRP.

Defintely think MC has played a tougher schedule. Hawkins got a lot of recognition playing in KOB in front of a lot of Louisville coaches. Montgomery Co. backed out of the KOB.

The state tournament could definitely decide the outcome of Mr. Basketball this year much like 2 years ago when Hickey won it. Most people thought Bowling Green's Behanen would win it. Hickey had a great state trournament leading Christian Co. to the title. Just about every coach in the state attends the state tournament. If Prewitt or Hawkins has a great run and leads their team to the finals I can see the coaches in the state voting for them. Coaches who may have voted for Willis or Troutman could easily change their vote.

Im hearing the KHSAA is thinking of lowering Ky to 27 games

March 9th at Transy 3:00

I thought PRP's game plan to slow the game down and stick to it really frustrated East. East struggled all night to get good shots vs PRP's match-up zone. PRP didnt press and East got no points at all in transition. Honestly East looked confused and frustrated all night. They looked a step slow especially when PRP forced them to play man. They just drove right around them.

I love Hawkins game but if Im voting for Mr. Basketball I think Willis is the best player in the state. He scores, rebounds, handles the ball, defends the post, blocks/alters shots, and is un-selfish. On any other team he would average 30pts ppg.

I was thinking the same thing. Thomas was first team all 6th region and has made the all tournament teams in The KOB, Barnstorm Classic in Fl, and the LIT. I think Fairdale's other Jr Caleb Longacre deserves a tryout the way he's steeped up as of late. How was the Jr's selected.

St. X is always ahead of teams early in the year. They run a lot of sets and seem to be in midseason form early. Problem is teams start catching up especially after getting film and prepare for what they run. The two Fairdale games for example. The first game X out executed Fairdale late in the game and Fairdale made several key turnovers that allowed them to pull away 75-61. In the LIT game Fairdale was much more prepared for what X run. When X went to their backdoor plays Fairdale kids were calling it out and caused X to turn it over late and win the game 55-52. Notice the point differential. As far as who's playing and who's not I cant answer to that I'm not in the inner circle of X basketball. I would think it would be hard to come out late from football and be able to run all the sets St. X does. Whether its a good system or not, not all kids can handle playing in a structured system. Coach Klein is a class act and I would find it hard to believe he would keep kids over other kids if he thought they would help X win.

Fairdale only led Holy Cross 56-46 heading into the 4th but broke the game open with a 31 pt 4th quarter to win going away. Sr Darren Lowry one of the states leading fg percent shooters (62%) went 12 for 12 from the field and led Fairdale with 25 pts. Josh Payne also went 9 for 9 from 2pt range and added 18 points, 7 rebs, 8 assist, and 4 steals. Jr Cory Thomas added 17 pts and Boo Crabtree had 11pts and 9 rebs. Jr point guard Caleb Longacre added 8 assist. Fairdale had 30 assist for the game. The Bulldogs will play PRP Friday night at Fairdale for the District Title. On a side note Josh Payne is becoming a regular at Bellarmine Games. Bellarmine is showing a lot of interest in Josh and he will attend their home game tonight.

Again where has the KHSAA violated Title IX? Title IX is about comparable facilities and equal spending. Doesn't really matter what it cost to rent Rupp vs Diddle. What would be a violation is if during the state tournament the participating girls team did not get the same amount of money for expenses(rooms. meals) as the boys. If this was a Title IX violation you can bet it would be addressed and the girls would have to play in Rupp the same as boys. The only issue between Rupp and Diddle is seating capacity. Diddle accomodates the girls crowd. If the crowds get bigger and outgrow it, I believe they would try and move it in a second. If you really want to stir the pot, request an audit of what the KHSSA spends on itself during these tournaments. They all stay in hotels and charge all their meals. All the while most teams lose money that participate in the tournament. They dont even pay for all of your rooms. You get a certain amount of money for rooms/meals based on a number of players.

NCAA womans Final four in New Orleans Areana 18,500. NCAA Mens Final Four Georgia Dome 60,000 plus. I would assume under some of the arguments given under Title IX this would be a violation. I havent heard Geno complain yet though. Like I said before, If the girls moved to the YUM Center it wouldnt be good enough. Its all about comparable facilities. I have yet to hear a good argument as to why Rupp is better than Diddle for the Girls tournament other than UK plays there.

What makes Rupp better than Diddle? Number of seats, prestiege, or UK plays there. Diddle has history, on a college campus, and has better seating. Playing the girls in Diddle is not going to be a title IX violation. Its the same arugment every year. Its basically a UK thing. The girls want to play in Rupp. You would probably have people complain if the girls played their finals in the Yum Center.

Fairdale was up 6 at the half 37-31. PRP came back and took a 2 point 55-53 lead at the end of the 3rd. After that it was all PRP. Fairdale looked frustrated and couldnt score. PRP held Crabtree to 1 point. Fairdale relies on all 5 of their starters to produce and right now they are inconsistent.