High School Basketball Kicks Back In This Week

The Big East race cranks up on Friday night and up until now it doesn't look like the top to bottom of the league is very good.  Northern Nash seems to be the cream of the crop and Southern Nash are the only two teams teams with winning records.

Northern Nash 10-2 travels to Hunt 4-6.  Hunt has a game Tuesday at Kinston before their Friday night game with the Knights.  Hunt scores 49.7 points per game while Northern Nash strikes at 68.6.  That is a big difference in Hunts ability to score compared to Northern.  The key in this game will be can Hunt slow down the Northern offense?  The Knights are led by Darius Spradley who scores just under 18 at 17.9.

Fike 5-8 at Southern Nash 7-4: interesting that Fike averages 53 per game while Southern 50.  The answer is of course that the Firebirds play better defense.  If you recall last season the Firebirds beat Fike in an upset opening night and the question is will the roles reverse this year.  Marquise Wright leads the Firebird attack at 19.3

Bunn host Nash Central tonight and Rocky Mount Host Rose on Thursday before they open the conference season on Friday.  The Gryphons have the football players turned basketball players ready for both games this week.

Rocky Mount 0-9 at Nash  Central 4-7.  Despite their record Nash Central is the second leading scoring  team in the league 63.4 which lends to they aren't good on defense.  Up until this point Rocky Mount has struggled to score 45.7.  Josh Mullins leads the Bulldogs at 23.7 while Rocky Mount does not have a double digit scorer.  Kyle Barnhill scores at 8.8 points.

The only way to tell about the quality of a teams opponents is to watch what those teams do when they begin their conference schedule.  We hope that the losing records of the four will show they have played a tough schedule.  Should it prove out that Northern Nash and Southern Nash has really played an outstanding schedule then they should prove to be the cream of the crop.