You Had Better Come Early

If the first game at Nash Central is any indication Rocky Mount will have their second sellout of the week by tap off time of the girls game. If you want to see the boys battle for the top spot in the conference you had better find a seat by 6.15.  You may be pushing it then.  The Girls game will be a question as to whether Rocky Mount has their feet flat on the ground or they are still floating on cloud nine after their Tuesday knockoff of previously unbeaten Northern.

The boys games is for first place as Nash Central has to win if they have any hope of taking the #1 seed into the playoffs.  A loss to Rocky Mount and they are two back with four to play. In  order to get the #1 seed from Rocky Mount it would require Rocky Mount to lose three of their last four since Rocky Mount owns the tied breaker with the Bulldogs. Nash Central would then  have to win all games from there.

The first draft of the NCHSAA realignment is on the table  and low and behold the Big East will stay intact as a six team league with all of their present members.  Corinth Holders the team that was believed to be going to join the conference is basically going to stay with the other Johnston County schools.  There will be another set of realignments meets in the coming weeks to heard more arguments from those that don't have a favorable alignment.  This process will be over by end of the school year.

We should have seen it coming.  Carolina has had a week to sit on hearing from their fans that the season  was falling  a part after the Dexter Strickland injury.  They played last night the way every Carolina fans thought they should play every game since they all thought they were going to win the National Championship with everyone coming back from last years team.  If they play the rest of the season like they did last night they just might.

The only solice State fans can take from last night's game was that  this is the first time during Roy Williams Tenure at Carolina that Carolina respected State before the game started.  I like the way Mark Gottfried coaches, he is not a screamer but a teacher and he had Roy Williams and Carolina's  attention from the get go last night.  To me that tells me the program is headed in the right direction.