Could It Be

Monday starts the Big East basketball tournament and this year with three teams tying at the top neither of the three seem capable of winning a state championship much less winning this week's tournament.  Is it possible the best team in the league is the team with the worst record.  The Rocky Mount Gryphons.

Yes their season has been disrupted by this important item of business called a state championship in football.  Many seasons in the pass basketball games were postponed until the season was over which  effected the girls season who didn't have to wait for the girls on the football team.  Now that basketball season starts the second week in November and this football season didn't end until the second weekend  of December half of the basketball season was already over.

Conference play started and the period of adjustment where the Gryphons had to figure out why these football player need to take my place.  Once the Gryphons reached 0-3  and 0-13 that happy meeting ground was reached.

Since that first victory the Gryphons are 6-1, Nash Central 5-2, Southern Nash 4-3.  They are of course the top three teams.  Fike and Hunt 3-4 and Northern  is 0-7.  Could it be that this 6-14 team  is the best team  in the league.  They have no double digit scorer their leading scorer is Kyle Barnhill scoring at 9.1 points.  They have four others scoring over six.  Enanual Spruill 8.6, Sherrid Greene 7-7, Latrell Daniels 7.6 and Artavious Richardson 6.6.

 
They are right now the hottest team and playoff sports comes down to the hot one wins.  This afternoon the three way draw was held and Southern Nash gets the top seed.  Joining them sitting out with the bye is Rocky Mount.  Nash Central is the unlucky one and has to play three times to win the conference tournament which will be held at Fike.  School is already out Monday because of President's Day so Big East will play four games Tuesday. To make up ground.

4pm will begin with Rocky Mount Girls 4th seed will play 5th Hunt.  The boys will take the court at 5:30 with the 3 seed Nash Central tangling with Northern Nash.  The 7pm is a girls contest as host Fike girls the 3rd seed meets winless 6th seed  Nash.  The long night ends with a packed gym for Fike and Hunt boys seeded four and five.

The Highschoolot.com 3-a projections show all six boys teams will make the tournament and whoever finishes as the top seed from the Big East will be seeded 8th.