John Thompson USA South Coach Of The Year.

The conference USA South basketball tournament starts Thursday at NC Wesleyan and every conference announces their all conference teams and the top team in the league coach John Thompson has been named the coach of the year.  The Battling Bishops  were 12-2 this season which ties for  the most conference wins the Battling Bishops have ever had tying the 1987/88 team.

Brandon Brown the Bishops forward from Fayetteville and Adrian Moore sophomore from Plymouth have made the all conference team.  D J Weaver the senior From Newport News Virginia has made the second team.  The senior center from Winston Salem Shannon Huff has made the Conference USA South All Sportsmanship team.

Thursday afternoon at 1pm the conference basketball tournament will get under way in Everett Gym on the Campus of NC Wesleyan.  1pm the sixth seed Piedmont will play third seed Greensboro. The second game at 3pm will be the seven seed William Peace going up against the second seed Covenant.  There will be no stoppage between afternoon and evening session and the 5pm game has the five seed Ferrum facing four seed LaGrange.  The final game of the night the host and top seed the Battling Bishops meet up with the last team in the tournament eight seed Averett who's two games this year with the Bishops were overtime and three point difference.

Still have four Nash County high schools playing basketball three girls and a single boys team.  Southern Nash  16-8 just may have caught a major break as they take on Eastern Wayne in the second round who sports a record of 7-20.  The game is at Southern starting at 7.

Marquise Wright leads the way for the Firebirds scoring at a 16.6 and 11.4 rebounds.  Damien Bryant  is second in scoring at 10.9. The Firebirds are averaging 57 points a game and the Firebirds need to score closer to that figure over the 37 they struggled to get in the opening round.

Nash Central 21-4 the top Big East girls team alive is at home in the second round when they host
Triton 18-7.  Robbi Allen 15.8 and Michaela Nelms lead the way for the Lady Bulldogs while Hayden Worney 14 points and Je'nae Harvey carry the load for the Hawks.  The Bulldogs score at 52 a game while Triton gets 55 per game.

You know if Rocky Mount Had not won the Big East Tournament then Northern Nash 20-5 would have been at least 14 seed and would avoid Terry Sanford 25-1at least to the sectional finals.   The Knights are better than their 16 seed so the Bulldogs of Terry Sanford had better be prepared for a fight from the Lady Knights.

TS  is led by Ona Udoh averaging 14 per game. No other player  hits double digits which would tell me a team averaging 52 per game have a complete team with a lot of supporting players..  The Lady Knights leading scorer is Jahlia Williams at 11 and Kayla Tucker 10.8.  The Knights don't have a go to player either so this will be a battle of Titans.  This should be a regional matchup instead of a second round game.

The red hot Rocky Mount 16-8 Lady Gryphons are hitting the road and will be traveling to Rockingham County 24-4.  The Gryphons score at 49 per game while Rockingham 58.  They have three players hitting double digits.  Madeline Hardy 15.3, Macy Boler 13.6 and Gabrielle Gordon 11.9 will be a trio hard to deal with.

Keyanna Spivey 15.8 and Michelle Gainey 10.9 will need to hit their averages  and get plenty of support for the Lady Gryphons to pull off any upset in this game.