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Oldest brother had 1 maybe 2 national champs EKU QB

 

Tuck was on the team for both of EKU's national championships and both national runnerups. Tuck never got any significant playing time until his senior year, when he went 14-0 and was the QB for the national champions.

I saw the Jordan brothers play AAU two summers ago in Louisville. The younger Jordan (Marcus??)appeared to be the better of the two. Don't know if any of his High School teamates were on that team.

 

I expect Scott Co. will hold their own nicely. Like him or not, Hicks is the best active High School coach in KY.

It would be great for Kentucky High School basketball if both LexCath and SC played well. Both programs have a history of playing well against the best in the country.

Playing two games a day is a little different .I can understand wht you would sub in that final game ,that is if you have the talent to sub with. If you think about it ,a high school game will take at least two hours to play and the actual playing time is 32 minutes. This means in a course of a game they have about an hour and 1/2 rest time. I know that the game has become more physical and there's more pushing , shoving and pressing which takes more out of you , but a kid should be able to play 32 minutes with that 1 & 1/2 hr rest time if they're in condition to play. I've seen teams win the state tournament with only a few substitutions. Sure a good thing Hicks didn't sub Mackey in that last quarter of the final game.

Ballard and Scott County both played 10-16 players EVERY game throughout the year. Both teams looked at their depth as an advantage. When you play the pressing, fast breaking, high intensity game both of these coaches play it is an advantage to play lots and lots of kids to wear the other team down.

Both Lexington Catholic and Scott County will play USA Today Top 25 teams Saturday night at Marshall County.

Lexington Catholic plays USA Today #17 Chicago Simeon. Simeon has 3 D1 signees. Simeon also has Josh Anderson the son of former NBA player Nick Anderson.

Scott County plays USA Today #19 Chicago Whitney Young. Whitney Young is lead by Marcus Jordon, son of Michael Jordon. Whitney Young also has at least 3 D1 players.

I should have pointed out that regular season games other than district matchups are glorified exhibitions.

I would disagree with you on that one Hounds.

Look at the two teams in last years state finals. Ballard played 12 kids regularly. Scott Co went about 10 deep. These two teams seemed to do OK. Would they have been better if they played only 7 or 8. I remember before the finals, the coaching staff at SC was most worried about Ballard's ability to keep fresh players in the game.

I disagree. The more kids that play the better.

The tough part is that Ballard isn't nearly as good as about half the teams on Scott Co's schedule this year. Their schedule is brutal...

This is true. I noticed USA Today ranked teams in the City of Palms tournament and 4 USA Today ranked teams in the Beach Ball Classic. In addition Scott Co will play 3 other nationally ranked teams outside of these tournaments. Someone said that Ballard and SC may both be "down" this year. It depends. Neither are as good as last year but both are still state powers.

The game was won at the 3 point line. Ballard outscored SC 30-3 from 3. SC had 23 more rebounds than Ballard.

Bring back the 11th and 7th Region debates. That should be interesting. Phares and Lee on the frontline against a small Ballard team wasn't enough. That's extremely interesting.

The 11th is better, no question. Renner even says so.

I expected a close game. Ballard is very good and very deep. They are better than most people think.

Scott County has a strange schedule. They opened at home against Gallatin Co and then play 13 consecutive games on the road. Their next home game is 1/5/08.

The cybercast.com stalled at 0:14. Ballard outscored Scott County 30-3 from the 3 point line. Scott County outrebounded Ballard 53-30. There were 46 personal fouls called in this game.

Scott County's 30 game winning streak against Kentucky teams, spanning more than 20 months, has come to an end.

Ballard by 8. 1:01 to play.

72-69 Ballard 1:42, Ballards ball.

SC down by 6.

70-66 Ballard 2:18 to go. Guyn has 7 turnovers. 40 fouls called in this game.

Phares makes a 3 and then steals the ball for SC.

Ballard up by 6. The Bruins have outscored SC 27-3 from 3 pt line.

Hundley picks up his 4th. SC in deep foul trouble.

Ballard leads 63-62 at 3:41.

Phares has 12 rebounds.

Jordan Lee fouls out on an offensive foul at 4:07 in the 4th quarter.

Hard to believe SC has 20 more rebounds but only leads by 3.

56-53 SC at the end of 3. Givens has 5 boards off the bench.

I knew this was going to be a close one.