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And Gate City had A numbers for several years opting instead to play AA before dropping down.

And Gate City had A numbers for several years opting instead to play AA before dropping down.

I can tell you with much authority that Gate City has turned down multiple transfers just in the last five years!  People are going to hate you for being successful, I was in sales for 19 years and won every sales award my company (companies) ever had and people just hate you for success. When Gate City was Single A, they were Single A attendance wise. There was no fudging the numbers! It sounds like Gate City pissed in Stan's Cheerios. But just for Stan the number of the day is 28!   

In no way am I a Gate City fan but what John Marshall did should make them ineligible to compete in the VHSL. An AAU coach should not be allowed to to lead that and a high school team in my opinion. It creates an unfair advantage by blatantly recruiting players to create a super team. 

how can someone cry and complain in national press about transfers and other basketball leagues when their own program has had transfers from local area next door to them for years and years and their own players have benefited from this same organization,  you got your tail spanked live with it,  single a didn't complain 20+ yrs ago when your double aa school dropped down so you could win state championships,  only problem is you got your tail handed to you then also  lol  what a joke

I don't think the problem is that they dropped down. The problem is their coach has access to an unfair advantage and used that to load a team up of kids that definitely don't live in the area. He's apart of the team loaded va aau program and has connections with those players. Some of those guys that played definitely don't live in inter-richmond limits. I know Scotty knew how it was gonna play out on the court way before the game was even played so I don't think he was upset about getting spanked. We've gotten spanked in the Arby's Classic by way worse so that's not the gripe. As he said the TSSAA has done things to prevent this exact situation. He was fine till John Marshalls coach basically told on himself in the press conference lol

I'd rather play hard and get beat than to have a trophy handed to me. Just my 2 cents. Proud of the GC kids!
Edited to say ..... it's no fault of the other schools and athletes. It is what it is. They all had great seasons.

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 Travis Taylor‏ @thetravtaylor So proud of these boys. Left it all out there.  

  great state

I feel sort of bad for 2A losers. I mean if the Governor had been a little more timely with his declaration we could have had another set of co-champions. The Gate City girls can tout they are the true champions! They proved themselves on the court. I guarantee the co-champions would have preferred to win outright too. I know this is serious especially for elderly and those with weakened immune systems other health issues but have mercy. The media has made the panic a 100 times worse. 

I hope you don't go through life with such shoddy research. You don't happen to work MSN do ya? Lol

I hope you don't go through life with such shoddy research. You don't happen to work MSN do ya? Lol

Radford and Martinsville have a combined 11 state championships since 2000! 
Both are Region C!!!!!

Along with other inner-city Richmond schools, JM has lost a lot of enrollment in recent years. But they didn’t lose anything on the basketball court. JM will likely win handily. Regardless, Gate City has exceeded most expectations this season. They should be very proud of what this group has accomplished. 

And they all handle the same basketball all night long...kinda pointless, but I guess they feel like they did something...

Players of one team touch their own player's hands multiple times during a game, makes no sense really to not shake the other team's hands.

Robert Edmonds‏ @bigrob2523
Class 2 State Semifinal. Final Score: John Marshall 78, East Rockingham 44. The Justices will play Gate City on Thursday for the state championship.   great state

The majority of pre-season/early-season predictions were that Central would win the M7 and Gate City couldn’t get back to this stage without Ervin and McClung. 
 
Those kids are getting pretty damned good at serving up crow!

Class 1A State Tournament:
Friday, Mar. 6
Grundy 49 Parry McCluer 46
Mathews 59 Riverheads 56
Colonial Beach 49 Sussex Central 37
Saturday, Mar. 7
Auburn 57 Eastside 47
Tuesday, Mar. 10
Semifinals
Auburn 63 Grundy 51
Mathews 56 Colonial Beach 53 OT
Thursday, Mar. 12
Championship, at Siegel Center (VCU)
Auburn vs. Mathews, CCD.
 
Class 2A State Tournament:
Friday, Mar. 6
Radford 58 Central-Wise 52 OT
Gate City 59 Glenvar 49
East Rockingham 77 Brunswick 70
John Marshall 136 Stuarts Draft 99
Tuesday, Mar. 10
Semifinals
Gate City 61 Radford 55 OT
John Marshall 78 East Rockingham 44
Thursday, Mar. 12
Championship, at Siegel Center (VCU)
John Marshall 75 Gate City 57
 
Class 3A State Tournament:
Friday, Mar. 6
Lakeland 60 Armstrong 52
Western Albemarle 51 Northside 49
Cave Spring 65 Liberty Christian Academy 52
Central-Woodstock 46 Petersburg 45
Tuesday, Mar. 10
Semifinals
Lakeland 43 Western Albemarle 35
Cave Spring 64 Central-Woodstock 53
Friday, Mar. 13
Championship, at Siegel Center (VCU)
Lakeland vs. Cave Spring, CCD.
 
Class 4A State Tournament:
Friday, Mar. 6
Kings Fork 66 Monacan 62
George Washington 63 Loudoun County 55
Millbrook 61 Halifax County 58
Woodrow Wilson 67 Courtland 61
Tuesday, Mar. 10
Semifinals
Kings Fork 67 George Washington 41
Woodrow Wilson 77 Millbrook 58
Friday, Mar. 13
Championship, at Siegel Center (VCU)
Kings Fork vs. Woodrow Wilson, CCD.
 
Class 5A State Tournament:
Friday, Mar. 6
Green Run 78 Varina 51
Potomac Falls 69 Albemarle 47
Patrick Henry (Roanoke) 53 Riverside 42
Norview 61 Henrico 50
Tuesday, Mar. 10
Semifinals
Green Run 72 Potomac Falls 48
Norview 51 Patrick Henry (Roanoke) 45
Saturday, Mar. 14
Championship, at Siegel Center (VCU)
Green Run vs. Norview, CCD.

Overrated???  If Eastside had blown them out then maybe...but it was a one point game that Grundy led for three quarters. 

Listen the officiating tonight was absolutely terrible but how you could say it favored one team I have no clue.  Dean had two guys hanging on his arms so how was that not a foul?  Are you saying because it was at the end of the game it shouldn’t have been called?  If anything it should have been called about 15 different times throughout the game.  Union got more then their share of questionable calls.  It’s unfortunate that two good teams had this type of officiating.
 

I don’t mind the district being played at the 1 seeds home court.  That’s the reward for going through the regular season and finishing on top.  If anything was to ever change I feel like it should be on a neutral court but not a rotation.  

Never heard of a coach stepping down like this during a tournament run. Strange to say the least. 
 
Worst kept secret in Wise County. Wild career that involves various incidents that overshadowed a pretty mediocre coaching career. 
 
God bless whoever gets that job. They are 5-6 years away from competing for anything and next season they could finish dead last. 

Clown show.

84-67 GC.  Was a blowout in second half.  Out coached from the very mention of " no pressure"