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Tonight's Quarterfinal Schedule: Ridgeview vs. Honaker (4 p.m.) John I. Burton vs. Marion (5:30 p.m.) Lebanon vs. Union (7 p.m.) Chilhowie vs. Central (8:30 p.m.) Day One Scores: Burton 78 Grundy 41 - Lebanon 57 Hurley 43 - Chilhowie 54 Rye Cove 44 - Ridgeview 63 Northwood 49

Just a reminder that this starts tomorrow.

WISE - - The bracket for the 2017 Grand Home Furnishings’ Boy’s Basketball Holiday Classic Presented by The Wolf, 92.1 FM WDIC Radio was released Tuesday. The event will kick off Wednesday, Dec. 27 at 4 p.m. inside the David J. Prior Convocation Center on the campus of UVa-Wise when the Hurley Rebels square off with the Lebanon Pioneers. The game will be the first of four on opening night as the Chilhowie Warriors will face the Rye Cove Eagles, the Northwood Panthers will square off with the Ridgeview Wolfpack and the John I. Burton Raiders will take on the Grundy Golden Wave. Quarterfinal action begins on Thursday, Dec. 28 as the Honaker Tigers faces the winner of the Northwood – Ridgeview contest at 4 p.m. before the Marion Scarlet Hurricanes play the winner of the Norton - Grundy game. The night session will feature the defending champion Union Bears playing the winner of the Hurley – Lebanon game before action wraps up with the Central Warriors taking on the winner of the Chilhowie – Rye Cove contest. Consolation bracket and semifinal action will commence on Friday, Dec. 29 beginning at 4 p.m. The action will get going at 11 a.m. with consolidation games Saturday, a 3-point shootout will also be held Saturday afternoon. The championship game is slated to tip at 5 p.m., the action will conclude at 7:30 p.m. when the UVa-Wise men’s basketball team faces Milligan College. A tournament pass can be purchased for $35 which will give the ticket holder access to all 18 tournament games. Single day tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students K – 12. Children under the age of five will be admitted free of charge. For more information about the second annual Grand Home Furnishings' Boy’s Basketball Holiday Classic, contact the David J. Prior Center Box Office at (276) 376-3431.

Last I heard, WAXM was covering the Burton game.

I’ve always wondered why they wait til all teams are eliminated. At the college level, all-conference teams are announced prior to the start of conference tournaments. Seems to me they would get more press that way as opposed to announcing the teams when everyone is in basketball mode.

Fun fact. Clarke County's starting quarterback (Jordan Turner) started all season as a true freshman on the baseball team at UVa-Wise last year. Played shortstop and centerfield, kid is a good athlete.

The Union - Central rivalry has gotten out of control. Both sides are equally to blame and the adults are as bad as the kids. Someone is going to end up getting seriously injured in a football or basketball game between these two. It’s past time an authority figure in the schools or central office stepped in.

I understand that but you and the committee are taking strength and winning percentage to mean the same thing when that wording is different on different tiebreakers. At the least, it's poorly worded. It's left it open for controversy which is evidenced by the fact they had to have this meeting.

It all comes down to how you define strength. I'm sure Battle argued 0-2 against Union was "stronger" than Central's 0-3. To me, it's impossible to say winning percentage is what is implied on tiebreaker two when the actual verbiage is used on tiebreaker three. Anytime you leave it up to a committee it's a mess. We've seen numerous odd occurrences through the years. This stuff really should be laid out for everyone to see like football is. I feel like these committees make up their own rules as it goes. For what it's worth, I think Central should be the three seed by common sense on the Lebanon deal but, by how the rules are, it's impossible for them to be the two seed if you follow the rules. It's sad for everyone involved that it's literally 24 hours before postseason play begins and the seeds aren't finalized.

3 p.m.

Five of the 12 teams in our tournament are ranked in the 1A or 2A top ten per Virginia Preps: https://virginiapreps.rivals.com/news/hoops-top-tens-christmas-edition We get the tournament going tomorrow at 4 p.m. when George Wythe who is ranked No. 1 in 1A takes on Mountain Mission. Admission is $10 per day for adults and $5 for kids K-8th grade. A tournament pass can be bought for $35.

We have a girls tournament prior to Christmas each season and a boys tournament after. With over 3,000 seats it's hard not to have empty seats but we have attempted to address that issue with the teams we have this year. Union - Central - Richlands are all playing this year and those three have fairly strong fan bases. We have passes for the tournament that are cheaper than the $10 a day pass to help alleviate price. Overall, the tournament will have 18 games, at the $10 a day rate that's a little over $2 a game.

Everybody in our tournament at UVa-Wise is guaranteed three games unless you have a bye and lose your first game. Every game of the tournament can be heard live on FM - 92.1 WDIC or www.wdicradio.com We try to make this better every year and feel we have a great group of teams this season and I'm hopeful it will be our most competitive tournament yet while providing local youths with the opportunity to play in the nicest arena in SWVA (I'm biased but, I believe it's true). We're blessed to have the support of Grand Home Furnishings and WDIC for our event this year. If you attend please post feedback here, positive and negative. I still read the forum and we want to do everything possible moving forward to make our event the best in SWVA. I attempted to upload the complete bracket, including consolation bracket but only images are allowed. Attached is a screen shot, it's the best I can do. Merry Christmas to you all.

You can keep up with Union schedule changes and scores on my site if you so desire: www.unionbearsbasketball.com Thanks for posting the schedules BeamerBall, I use them every year.

Anybody have an actual address to the football stadium? Thanks.

So Honaker beat Haysi?

Who is Hurley playing? Honaker or Haysi?

What are they going to do about the girls and boys playoff games to determine regular season champions?

Anybody have them after tonight?

Anybody got an update?

Score anyone?

Can someone post them please?

Anyway you can post Region D Results as the today progresses?

Anybody?

Anybody got a score on this one?