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  1. I like it! As you said, it won't happen in Virginia or Tennessee, but it would be nice. This system is what makes postseason basketball in Kentucky so compelling. I have went to region semifinals in Kentucky the past three years and the intensity is crazy. I also like how Kentucky does the midseason state tournament for the small schools as well which is something Virginia could also adopt if they went with this system.
  2. I doubt it.... This season, a girl transferred from Daniel Boone to Knoxville Catholic at the start of the school year, played to the Christmas break with Catholic, and then transferred back to Boone and was eligible immediately and finished out the season at Boone.
  3. Seen that Ridgeview walloped Grundy the other night 22-0. Grundy may not have the best team, but the scoreline caught my eye for sure.
  4. Here is my thought... If Lebanon's stick and ball teams would touch home plate after they hit home runs, they might would win more games... 😄
  5. Hmmmm... don't think I know this story.
  6. Hockey is the same agenda... you must go to a game in person.... it is a LOT better than watching on TV. Baseball is the same... watching a MLB or minor league game in person is better than TV. I've been a hockey fan since 1994. I decided when I started watching, I would pull for the newest team. So, that's why I am a San Jose Sharks fan. I didn't get to catch a Sharks game live this year on one of their rare trips to the East Coast, unfortunately.
  7. Hatfield is an eastern Virginia guy anyway... He loves to see teams from this side of the state get beat down.
  8. Lol... I didn't come out and say that, but the thought had crossed my mind. And for the record, I like Robin and am not ashamed to say he's the wizard of high school basketball coaches in SWVA. I mean... we're seeing it everywhere these days.... Star player transfers from one Cumberland school to another and plays against her former school in the same week. In upper east Tennessee, a girl transferred to a Knoxville private school right before the season started, realized quickly she was going to be a little fish in a big pond, so transferred back.... before January and played immediately. It's not just JM.... it's beginning to happen everywhere. Ridgeview girls may be the only team left in the postseason where all of their players were born and raised in the area they play.
  9. Scotty Vermillion was very outspoken about JM a few years ago when Gate City were the Justices victim that year. Now that the girls program is doing the same... I will be very interested in hearing coach Dotson's take IF they first get past Ridgeview AND IF they lose to JM as bad as most people are beginning to realize is the very real possibility.
  10. Virginia High and Graham Friday at Lebanon 6:00 PM confirmed from someone within the Graham community I trust. Not UVa-Wise. Abingdon and LCA at Virginia High confirmed for Friday at 6:00.
  11. My predictions are: Boys: Auburn over Honaker Graham over Virginia High Girls: Honaker over Eastside Wise Central over Ridgeview Liberty Christian Academy over Abingdon Hope I am wrong on a couple of these though...
  12. Unofficially this is what I've been told: Eastside vs. Honaker at UVa-Wise Wise Central vs. Ridgeview at UVa-Wise Virginia High vs. Graham at UVa-Wise Abingdon vs. LCA at Virginia High Honaker vs. Auburn at Lebanon Abingdon girls wanted to play at Emory and Henry but were denied. UVa-Wise, Virginia High and Lebanon were approved semifinal venues. Semifinals MUST be played at a neutral location as chosen by the higher seed, hence why Virginia High can't play at the Bearcat Den. The only puzzling thing is why Honaker didn't choose UVa-Wise to play the boys game as this may split the fan base up. Hear they're going to try to play the girls game early so the Honaker fans can get to Lebanon as well, but it seems to me that the fans get the shaft for having to pay twice. Once again, this is what I was told.
  13. At the Dobyns-Bennett/Wise Central game this year, a Central parent told me that this was the case. That they were loading up the girls team like they had the boys.
  14. I was always told Floyd County was a small gym.
  15. Well on the bright side.... at least it's not in Wheeling and a much closer drive for Bluefield and Princeton and James Monroe.
  16. Pretty good friends with a former Lee High player. Her son plays for D-B now and made first team all conference this year. I think they were really good back when she played for them back in the mid 90's.
  17. I think Battle even split with Virginia High didn't they? Lee would have probably been close if not beating them as well.
  18. I have the same thing as this except with Gate City winning. Also, I don't think Virginia High will necessarily blow out Ridgeview either. I think they'll win but not necessarily blow them out. Virginia High just didn't impress me all that much when I saw them against D-B. I saw Ridgeview twice. Against Battle on the road, they looked like a serious contender. Against Abingdon, they looked like they could lose to Council. On the girls side, I believe the Mountain 7 will sweep the quarterfinals with Central and Ridgeview in the title game with Central winning. Battle girls almost beat Virginia High is why I think the Mountain 7 will sweep.
  19. Complete brackets above. Boys start Tuesday, Girls on Wednesday.
  20. Everything is filled in in the brackets above with the exception of the SWD 3&4 seeds which will be decided tonight in consolation games.
  21. That's not decided yet. Lebanon has to beat Marion in the consolation. Union plays winner of Marion and Lebanon.
  22. Makes sense... I just remember him not being too happy at the time... Lol
  23. Updated girls bracket after last night's SWD girls semifinals. Only thing left for the girls bracket is dependent on the consolation between Richlands/Marion. Winner will be SWD 3, loser will be SWD 4.
  24. Pretty strange considering the gyms are exact replicas of one another... But in hindsight, Dobyns-Bennett's radio crews weren't allowed to broadcast in Gate City's gym either a couple years ago. Not sure of the reasoning behind that though.
  25. As I mentioned... I asked someone in the media... they would probably know... Lol
 
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