The animosity is towards the topic of this thread I believe. Look at the title! No one who knows the M7 isn’t surprised by the fact that 3 SWD teams won last night. Apparently he is though. It’s not the M7 teams fault that typically, year in and year out, is better from top to bottom than the SWD is. No one, that I’ve seen, has came into the region sayin the M7 was going to sweep the first round. The only team this year is Union. M7 is down and it showed last night. Great job to the teams that won and good luck the rest of the way.
I wouldn’t call it hallucinating, maybe surprised. In basketball, the M7 has usually been the more dominant league compared to the two when comparing it from top to bottom. Graham always has a team that competes but that is usually it. This year, the M7 is way down compared to what everyone is used to. I think it will be that way for a few years. I don’t believe anybody was beating their chest this year that the M7 was going to run through the region, other than Union.
If M7 uses points then that 4 seed is Lee.....just out of curiosity when was all this officially decided? Pre Season?
No way this could have been decided after that because then everyone has a vested interest right??
That article said Region 2D was based on district record, so that would put GC as the 4th seed over Lee right?. They’ll have the same overall record but GC would have the better district record based on them beating Lee. The points are only used as a tiebreaker.
It’s a nice discussion but the prize for being the 4th seed is a beat down from Graham.
As stated here multiple times, until the Little League program has a complete overhaul to get kids interested at an earlier age, there won’t be much success. GC needs multiple seasons like last year to build momentum and attract players walking the halls while developing the elementary age kids at the same time.
I’m curious to hear about Ridgeview’s numbers. A program like theirs to only have 7 or 8 players. Was COVID a reason some didn’t come out this year? You could tell they were gassed in the 4th quarter. They’ll be one of the favorites next year I would think.
Fouls against Graham are totally lopsided as well, getting a little ridiculous. Already shooting 1 and 1's in the 3rd quarter.
It’s 7-2 in the fouls so far. You have to look at the situation. Graham has to play more intense defense to get back in the game however they play too much 1 on 1 on offense.
You have to think that M7 teams are selected based on what they did during conference play. In the girls, GC finished tied for 3rd with Union behind Ridgeview and Abingdon. Union won the region tournament so I can see why their coach won that. I’m a little confused about the boys since GC hasn’t lost a game in like 5 years but who knows, maybe he said give it to someone else. McAmis and Central did have a great season. Union will definitely have a lot of players and probably coach on there next season. They finished very strong and they’re all returning next season. Radford is region C so if them and Union do meet, it wouldn’t be until the state quarterfinals or semifinals.
The girls should be as tough as ever imho. GC only loses two contributors, mainly on the defensive side. Ridgeview is Ridgeview. Central will be back and more experienced. Union I’m not sure of. I’m sure Abingdon will be tough.
The boys will be Union and GC I believe with Lee as a dark horse, I don’t know what all they lose. Abingdon will be a solid team. Graham will be better in the region as well.
I can only assume because it’s the day of the class 1 and 2 games that they didn’t do that for them. I’m sure a lot of the fans are either already there or on there way. I’m surprised they did anything to tell you the truth.
Even through Radford didn't make to the final, they lost 2 D1 prospects and 7 seniors total from last years team and still almost made it back to the championship. Someone said it before "Coaching means everything"
They had a great season. If I heard correctly they only lose one player for next year. I expect they’ll make another run at it next year. Great program and tradition up there. A Radford - Union matchup next season could be very likely to happen.
The game is on YouTube, just search Radford vs wise central. I watched some of it and based on how physical it was the whole game the no call was pretty consistent on how they called the parts I seen. Central was very physical off the ball on Cormany and hardly ever was called for a foul. One guy was running through screens and maybe one foul was called on him. A still picture can make it look worse then what it really is. The live feed didn’t look all that bad but like I said it played into how the game was called.
IF John Marshall doesn’t win the state championship, how many years will it take for the movie to be made documenting the Hickory-esq upset of the ages?
The shot at the buzzer is tough. It’s a bang bang play and I can see how they would wave it off. I saw a video, but can’t remember where so I can’t see it again, but my first thought was no good. If you slow it down possibly there is a chance it was clear but the refs don’t have that capability so you can’t fault them for that one. At least they were tied at that point. If they would have lost the game because of those calls then that would have been a travesty.
My opinion is as long as there is time left on the clock, a foul is a foul and it should be called. I get you don’t want to have a ref decide a game but rules are rules. This was obviously a foul and should have been called.
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Graham with the tip at the buzzer to send it to ot!