HUNT LOSES REGIONAL FINAL 65-52
No wonder Syracuse decided to miss the ACC Tournament this year in Greensboro. Of course Jim Boeheim the Syracuse coach wants no part of Greensboro when he compares it with Madison Square Garden. The NCAA gave us the answer they have known since October. Friday the NCAA slammed Syracuse and if I am a Carolina fan I might want to gulp after the penalties handed down.
Jim Boeheim has to surrender 108 wins which drops him from the door step of 1000 wins down to sixth on the all time list. He must sit out the first half nine games of the ACC conference season next year. Syracuse must return all monies won in playoffs in 2011-12-13. Lose twelve scholarships to boot.
Those of you who might think that the NCAA took many of Joe Paterno's wins away at Penn State but has since reneged and given them back to him there is one major difference. Paterno's failures had nothing to do with wins and losses on the football field. Boeheim has run a program that let in players who weren't eligible gave them extra benefits for winning games. Paterno never did any of that he just covered up a coach sex offender which had nothing to do with wins and losses as long as you don't consider the coach in question may have help coach many of those wins if he had of been in jail where he belonged Penn state just might lost a few of them.
Today is the last day of the ACC basketball season. Several seeding's for next week's ACC tournament are still undecided. I have tickets for Wednesday games and of course State for sure is playing Wednesday either at 7pm or 9:30 depending on today's outcome on all games. Carolina still has an outside shot at the double day bye if they beat Duke tonight.
Who are you picking tonight in the battle of the blue part II. Here is my feeling. Duke made 10/20 threes in Durham and it took overtime to beat Carolina. Carolina wins tonight.
Saturday is the last game of the season for Syracuse. I bet they play their butts off for Boeheim. The question is what is State going to play like. If they win and play at 9:30 Wednesday I'll be there in Greensboro until midnight planning on working Thursday. They lose they play at 7:00 Wednesday. I have a catch 22 with this game.
Can the University of Virginia keep winning with mirrors with at least two starters still missing. Louisville needs this one and I think they take UVA. Wake plays at BC. That could be a barn burner of a game.
I don't know how the seeding's will play out after today but I hope Wake wins Tuesday and Carolina also has a Wednesday game along with State. At least three of the Big Four could be there while I'm there.
Hunt High tries to win their second straight Eastern Basketball regional today when they play Terry Sanford. If they do the Big East will send it's fourth team in six years to the state championship basketball game.
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Weather Havoc Continues Now It's Spring Sports
The high school spring sports season could officially start on Monday yet not one Big East Conference baseball team has been able to get on the field to practice much less play. If baseball sits idle so does tennis, soccer, softball and track and field.
Many teams if they are able to make up some of these washed and cold out so far may not be made up, if they can't get three games in a week in up to conference play. Who wants to waste pitchers on a third game per week once you start two conference games per week. The quality seen on the field will be suspect early when ever the games start because there has simply been no way to practice to prepare for a season.
The fifth time in the last six years the Big East will have a boys basketball team playing in the East Regional Final. Tonight Hunt beat Havelock 59-53 to advance to Saturday's final and they will meet Fayettville's Terry Sanford. This is the second year in a row that Hunt has played in the east final.
Tabias Hilliard the junior at Methodist University has made the Conference USA South second team all conference in basketball. Hilliard averaged 12.4 points per game 12th overall. 3.0 assist was eighth best in the USA South.
TaShawn Mabry has made honorable mentions all conference playing in the Lone Star Conference for Tarleton State. Mabry averaged 11.7 points per games and 5.3 rebounds. Tarleton State won the Lone Star Conference with a 27-2 record and are 7th in DII basketball
Both Mabry and Hilliard played on state championship basketball teams while at Rocky Mount High. Mabry played on the 2010 team and Hilliard on 2012 squad.
The NFL season is over and the next big item on the agenda for the NFL is the draft which does not come until the first week in May. All the talk right now is who is the number one pick and right now the consenus slants toward Jamis Winston. History tells us the last 15 players picked at # 1 are generally at best not worth being picked # one. The last 15 number one picks have 21 Pro Bowls picks among them. The so called best player in any years draft is only going to make the all star game 1.5 times among them all.
Winstons seven acts while at Florida State which either required action by police or some board at FSU to decide his conduct is enough for me. This guy is cancer at the pro level. The quarterback is the CEO of any team. On offense he directs which way the offense goes. He should be a high standard guy. How many of the top 50 CEO's in this world had more than one issue while in college if they went to college or since they have been in charge of their business?
If I owned the #1 pick this year I would be unloading the pick to somebody desperate to make a big splash. Let somebody else belly flop and sting for a while.
Many teams if they are able to make up some of these washed and cold out so far may not be made up, if they can't get three games in a week in up to conference play. Who wants to waste pitchers on a third game per week once you start two conference games per week. The quality seen on the field will be suspect early when ever the games start because there has simply been no way to practice to prepare for a season.
The fifth time in the last six years the Big East will have a boys basketball team playing in the East Regional Final. Tonight Hunt beat Havelock 59-53 to advance to Saturday's final and they will meet Fayettville's Terry Sanford. This is the second year in a row that Hunt has played in the east final.
Tabias Hilliard the junior at Methodist University has made the Conference USA South second team all conference in basketball. Hilliard averaged 12.4 points per game 12th overall. 3.0 assist was eighth best in the USA South.
TaShawn Mabry has made honorable mentions all conference playing in the Lone Star Conference for Tarleton State. Mabry averaged 11.7 points per games and 5.3 rebounds. Tarleton State won the Lone Star Conference with a 27-2 record and are 7th in DII basketball
Both Mabry and Hilliard played on state championship basketball teams while at Rocky Mount High. Mabry played on the 2010 team and Hilliard on 2012 squad.
The NFL season is over and the next big item on the agenda for the NFL is the draft which does not come until the first week in May. All the talk right now is who is the number one pick and right now the consenus slants toward Jamis Winston. History tells us the last 15 players picked at # 1 are generally at best not worth being picked # one. The last 15 number one picks have 21 Pro Bowls picks among them. The so called best player in any years draft is only going to make the all star game 1.5 times among them all.
Winstons seven acts while at Florida State which either required action by police or some board at FSU to decide his conduct is enough for me. This guy is cancer at the pro level. The quarterback is the CEO of any team. On offense he directs which way the offense goes. He should be a high standard guy. How many of the top 50 CEO's in this world had more than one issue while in college if they went to college or since they have been in charge of their business?
If I owned the #1 pick this year I would be unloading the pick to somebody desperate to make a big splash. Let somebody else belly flop and sting for a while.
It Takes Lots Of Luck
The Lady Knights of Northern Nash went the entire regular season undefeated and earned the right to play home games in the first three games of the playoffs. They finally lose in what was going to be the last home game of the season because all games from this point on are on neutral sites. Well equip to win it all the Lady knights come up short. The answer to why is not as simple as here's why they lost. There are so many mitigating circumstances into play.
It doesn't matter how good any team is luck is a major reason any team wins any game. The ball bounced right straight to our players instead of the other team. Luck encompasses more than the bounce of the ball. Injuries, did a player have a nagging injury that kept them from playing at top performance? Was there more than one injured?? Luck sometimes is even a player was injured but came back just in time for the playoffs. UVA men's basketball team continues to win basketball games with two starters out of action. Will those two come back this year? Probably, Will they have time to get back in playing shape before the playoffs where they can make a difference to the team.
Even the schedule is a matter of luck. Did it hurt the Lady Knights missing practice time during all of this winter weather we have had? Was a huge factor that the Lady Knights played three nights in four days instead of playing every other night which is the norm in the playoffs. All teams had the same problem with practice time during this weather so it may have come down to in the fourth quarter of the third game of basketball that Rockingham County was in better shape at this point with the situation all teams had to deal with.
Here is where luck may not matter. Rockingham County was a really good team and when you deal with all the factors all the teams had to deal with RC was in a better position than Northern to deal with all the factors.
It was reported that the Lady Knights missed 12 layups in the game was it fatigue, defense by Rockingham County. My guess you can give the reason any of the above and you might add in luck where the ball didn't roll on the rim like it does most of the time.
Grover Battle is a coach who loves to be physical with other teams. Pressing all over the floor. I sensed the last week of there regular season the players seemed tired that last week. They have as close of games with Fike and Rocky Mount as they had all year. So now you have a tired team, lays out two weeks with no activity from the weather and now you are forced into three games in four days in order to get the schedule back on time.
Then there is another factor. the burden of carrying the weight of an undefeated season on your shoulders. Don't care what you say any streak winning or losing straps teams down. Kentucky carries that burden into the NCAA tournament. I personally don't think they will win the title because they are undefeated. Whether any team can feel it or not you forget the lucky bounce three weeks ago that keep you undefeated then and you loose the perception that you can be beaten.
Winless teams always some where in a game ask themselves is this where we fall apart? Would it have been better to lose one time in mid season and as a team rededicate yourselves because you found out that you are beatable at the right time. a playoff game is an awful time to find out you are beatable.
The Lady Knight basketball program at this point is the premium basketball program in our area. They have for the most part been dominant for the last five or more years with interruptions by Rocky Mount ever so often. When they have ventured out into the real world of North Carolina High School playoff basketball they have held their own and have served us all proud representing us.
There is that old NASCAR saying "if you run up front of the pack sooner or later you are going to finish first once in a while. I'll take running up front every year and once in a while the luck will fall my way and the Lady Knights are going to win another State title..
It doesn't matter how good any team is luck is a major reason any team wins any game. The ball bounced right straight to our players instead of the other team. Luck encompasses more than the bounce of the ball. Injuries, did a player have a nagging injury that kept them from playing at top performance? Was there more than one injured?? Luck sometimes is even a player was injured but came back just in time for the playoffs. UVA men's basketball team continues to win basketball games with two starters out of action. Will those two come back this year? Probably, Will they have time to get back in playing shape before the playoffs where they can make a difference to the team.
Even the schedule is a matter of luck. Did it hurt the Lady Knights missing practice time during all of this winter weather we have had? Was a huge factor that the Lady Knights played three nights in four days instead of playing every other night which is the norm in the playoffs. All teams had the same problem with practice time during this weather so it may have come down to in the fourth quarter of the third game of basketball that Rockingham County was in better shape at this point with the situation all teams had to deal with.
Here is where luck may not matter. Rockingham County was a really good team and when you deal with all the factors all the teams had to deal with RC was in a better position than Northern to deal with all the factors.
It was reported that the Lady Knights missed 12 layups in the game was it fatigue, defense by Rockingham County. My guess you can give the reason any of the above and you might add in luck where the ball didn't roll on the rim like it does most of the time.
Grover Battle is a coach who loves to be physical with other teams. Pressing all over the floor. I sensed the last week of there regular season the players seemed tired that last week. They have as close of games with Fike and Rocky Mount as they had all year. So now you have a tired team, lays out two weeks with no activity from the weather and now you are forced into three games in four days in order to get the schedule back on time.
Then there is another factor. the burden of carrying the weight of an undefeated season on your shoulders. Don't care what you say any streak winning or losing straps teams down. Kentucky carries that burden into the NCAA tournament. I personally don't think they will win the title because they are undefeated. Whether any team can feel it or not you forget the lucky bounce three weeks ago that keep you undefeated then and you loose the perception that you can be beaten.
Winless teams always some where in a game ask themselves is this where we fall apart? Would it have been better to lose one time in mid season and as a team rededicate yourselves because you found out that you are beatable at the right time. a playoff game is an awful time to find out you are beatable.
The Lady Knight basketball program at this point is the premium basketball program in our area. They have for the most part been dominant for the last five or more years with interruptions by Rocky Mount ever so often. When they have ventured out into the real world of North Carolina High School playoff basketball they have held their own and have served us all proud representing us.
There is that old NASCAR saying "if you run up front of the pack sooner or later you are going to finish first once in a while. I'll take running up front every year and once in a while the luck will fall my way and the Lady Knights are going to win another State title..
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Lady Knights Fall
The Lady Knights of Northern Nash and The Ladies of Eastern Wayne were the only undefeated teams in the east when the basketball playoffs began. Both were their conference champions and the only decision when the playoffs started was who got the number one seed and who would get second. What ever tie breaker was used by the NCHSAA to determine the seeds Eastern Wayne got one and Northern Nash the two.
The only thing that guarantees if both win their first four playoff games they would not tangle until the regional final on Saturday in Fayetteville. The opening playoff game Saturday Eastern Wayne tangles with South Brunswick who was 4-17 on the year. As the number two you would expect the next to last team in would have a record like maybe 6-15 but Northern draws Morehead who is 10-14.
Monday night EW drew in round two C B Aycock a much better quality team that had 18-8 record while the Lady Knights faces Walter Williams who came to Northern with 20 wins in their pocket. The sectional finals both teams are now up against quality competition with EW facing Northwood 22-4 and NN facing their third straight Mid State conference foe at 23-3. The road has been easier for the top seed as their opposing teams overall record has 44-29 while the Lady Knights have faced teams 54-22.
Despite the records EW has had two double digit wins heading into tonight while Northern had to work their buns off to win in the second round. Seedings do make a difference as it should and tonight regional qualifiers were determined.
Tonight The Lady Knights down by one at the end of the third quarter could not get a stop when they needed and fall at home losing to Rockingham County 51-42. This is the third time in the last four years Northern has made it to at least the sectional finals and only last year making it to the regionals.
The last two years Northern has loss three games and two were in the 3rd and 4th round of the playoffs. Northern ends it season 23-1.
Hunt is the only Big East team alive and they will return to the Regional for the second year in a row beating West Brunswick at WB 68-60. They will play Havelock Thursday in a semi final rematch from last year.
Under the category of have you heard this???? A girls California high school team had to forfeit their Saturday playoff win after they wore their Breast Cancer Awareness Jerseys in a playoff win. Under California rules in order to wear a uniform other than you team colors you must submit a form and have it approved ahead of time. Some where along the way we have lost sanity and reason when it comes to rules.
The only thing that guarantees if both win their first four playoff games they would not tangle until the regional final on Saturday in Fayetteville. The opening playoff game Saturday Eastern Wayne tangles with South Brunswick who was 4-17 on the year. As the number two you would expect the next to last team in would have a record like maybe 6-15 but Northern draws Morehead who is 10-14.
Monday night EW drew in round two C B Aycock a much better quality team that had 18-8 record while the Lady Knights faces Walter Williams who came to Northern with 20 wins in their pocket. The sectional finals both teams are now up against quality competition with EW facing Northwood 22-4 and NN facing their third straight Mid State conference foe at 23-3. The road has been easier for the top seed as their opposing teams overall record has 44-29 while the Lady Knights have faced teams 54-22.
Despite the records EW has had two double digit wins heading into tonight while Northern had to work their buns off to win in the second round. Seedings do make a difference as it should and tonight regional qualifiers were determined.
Tonight The Lady Knights down by one at the end of the third quarter could not get a stop when they needed and fall at home losing to Rockingham County 51-42. This is the third time in the last four years Northern has made it to at least the sectional finals and only last year making it to the regionals.
The last two years Northern has loss three games and two were in the 3rd and 4th round of the playoffs. Northern ends it season 23-1.
Hunt is the only Big East team alive and they will return to the Regional for the second year in a row beating West Brunswick at WB 68-60. They will play Havelock Thursday in a semi final rematch from last year.
Under the category of have you heard this???? A girls California high school team had to forfeit their Saturday playoff win after they wore their Breast Cancer Awareness Jerseys in a playoff win. Under California rules in order to wear a uniform other than you team colors you must submit a form and have it approved ahead of time. Some where along the way we have lost sanity and reason when it comes to rules.
Monday, March 2, 2015
Harvey Reid Wins National Award 24 years After Death
He won 816 games while coaching at three different high schools during his lifetime. He coached in Pinehurst, Elm City and Wilson. His last day on this earth he was doing what he wanted to do coach high school kids in basketball for Fike High in Fayetteville during a playoff game.. Today it was announced that Harvey Reid has won the 2015 Morgan Wooten Award for his Lifetime Achievement in high school coaching.
Reid won seven state championships and coached in five others during his 40 years of coaching mostly in Elm City and Fike. His 816 victories are the most in North Carolina high School history. The Morgan Wooten award is named after the famed DeMatha High school coach who dedicated his entire coaching life to high school coaching as did Reid.
Survive and Advance: Tonight Northern Nash had all they could handle facing Walter Williams High . Both teams had the look of no practice and having the other team being a quality foe. Tied at the half at 15 each, Northern uses it's overall depth to advance to round three beating Williams 42-36. The Lady Knights led by only one at the end of the 3rd quarter.
It was the second lowest scoring game of the year for the Lady Knights who scored only 35 in a game against Fike when the Lady Demons held the ball as much as possible. Round three the sectional finals will be play at 6pm Tuesday at Northern Nash and they will face Rockingham County who is 23-3 and won tonight over Topsoil 59-31. The winner Tuesday qualifies for the Regional Friday in Fayetteville.
The basketball season is over for Hunt girls as they have been crushed by Chapel Hill 56-40. The Northern Girls are the sole surviving Big East girls team.
The Big East boys still have the champs alive as Hunt has knocked of Northern Guilford 59-44 to advance to the sectional finals on Tuesday
I have made many decisions about how I wanted to present this blog to you on a daily basis. I decided long ago that Twitter and Facebook was not for me so I have kept as they say this old fashion blog where you have to input my address on your computer to find me. I have had a following in recent months that consistently has been between 100 to 150 hits per day. As far as I am concerned that keeps me going that we continue to inch forward.
I don't know why but Friday was the biggest day ever for hits on this blog. Our previous two high days before in some way were involved about something big going on like Rocky Mount playing in the state championship basketball game. Friday there was nothing to speak of to tell me oh that's important to a lot of people. We had almost 600 hits Friday which these days is about 400% increase for one day WOW. I am a person who is happy to serve a few so I have no intentions that one day I will see have a million hits a day. Thank you those of you that hit this site on a daily basis or if you are one that only surfs ever so often. It is good therapy for me!
Reid won seven state championships and coached in five others during his 40 years of coaching mostly in Elm City and Fike. His 816 victories are the most in North Carolina high School history. The Morgan Wooten award is named after the famed DeMatha High school coach who dedicated his entire coaching life to high school coaching as did Reid.
Survive and Advance: Tonight Northern Nash had all they could handle facing Walter Williams High . Both teams had the look of no practice and having the other team being a quality foe. Tied at the half at 15 each, Northern uses it's overall depth to advance to round three beating Williams 42-36. The Lady Knights led by only one at the end of the 3rd quarter.
It was the second lowest scoring game of the year for the Lady Knights who scored only 35 in a game against Fike when the Lady Demons held the ball as much as possible. Round three the sectional finals will be play at 6pm Tuesday at Northern Nash and they will face Rockingham County who is 23-3 and won tonight over Topsoil 59-31. The winner Tuesday qualifies for the Regional Friday in Fayetteville.
The basketball season is over for Hunt girls as they have been crushed by Chapel Hill 56-40. The Northern Girls are the sole surviving Big East girls team.
The Big East boys still have the champs alive as Hunt has knocked of Northern Guilford 59-44 to advance to the sectional finals on Tuesday
I have made many decisions about how I wanted to present this blog to you on a daily basis. I decided long ago that Twitter and Facebook was not for me so I have kept as they say this old fashion blog where you have to input my address on your computer to find me. I have had a following in recent months that consistently has been between 100 to 150 hits per day. As far as I am concerned that keeps me going that we continue to inch forward.
I don't know why but Friday was the biggest day ever for hits on this blog. Our previous two high days before in some way were involved about something big going on like Rocky Mount playing in the state championship basketball game. Friday there was nothing to speak of to tell me oh that's important to a lot of people. We had almost 600 hits Friday which these days is about 400% increase for one day WOW. I am a person who is happy to serve a few so I have no intentions that one day I will see have a million hits a day. Thank you those of you that hit this site on a daily basis or if you are one that only surfs ever so often. It is good therapy for me!
Another Basketball Playoff Crisis
I know there are several Big East teams that now that their basketball seasons are over wish that they could have somehow or other managed to get their games played on Sunday. Guess what? Those teams in Wake County that decided to wait till Sunday got a big surprise Sunday morning. Ice cover roads force postponements of several games which has the 4-A basketball bracket in shambles heading to Monday's second round.
Now that the state has committed to playing second round games on Monday those that still have 1st round games to finish will need to play Monday pushing some second round games to Tuesday and anyone needing to play Wednesday will just have to miss the News conferences in Fayetteville on Wednesday. As I write this Sunday night there has been no word from the NCHSAA as to what they can do. What can they do other than play the remaining first round games on Monday?
Nash County's four high school boys were 0-4 in the opening round while the girls were 1-2. The only team left standing from Nash County is the undefeated Lady Knights of Northern Nash 22-0 and they will host Williams high who stands 20-4 so this is not an easy second round game for the Lady Knights. Game time is 6pm Monday at Northern.
The weather has already played havoc for high school baseball and the season starts officially on Tuesday for most. Rocky Mount Gryphon's home opener was scheduled for Thursday but Kent Cox and Ron Vincent have already decided to dangerous to put pitchers and batters and fielders on a baseball field when they haven't had any on field practice at all this year so far. No word as of yet when the makeup will be. Unless the schedule changes between now and then the Gryphon home opener is now set for Tuesday March 10th at 4pm against SouthWest Edgecombe.
You have probably heard that the Big Ten is trying to start to make all freshman athletes in all sports ineligible in order to give freshman a full year of college before putting them on the athletic fields. I doubt that will ever get off the ground. Seems funny to me that the power Five conferences were in such a rush to break away from rest of the NCAA in order to try to get all the TV money for themselves.
Do you suppose now what was have Texas A&M playing Kentucky in the SEC, Miami playing Notre Dame and Penn State having to travel to Nebraska for conference play that the conferences are too big an area or that this new pay the players deal is going to cost way more for each school than income from the Power Five deal. The Power Fives just maybe in their rush for greed priced themselves right into losing money instead of making more.
Now that the state has committed to playing second round games on Monday those that still have 1st round games to finish will need to play Monday pushing some second round games to Tuesday and anyone needing to play Wednesday will just have to miss the News conferences in Fayetteville on Wednesday. As I write this Sunday night there has been no word from the NCHSAA as to what they can do. What can they do other than play the remaining first round games on Monday?
Nash County's four high school boys were 0-4 in the opening round while the girls were 1-2. The only team left standing from Nash County is the undefeated Lady Knights of Northern Nash 22-0 and they will host Williams high who stands 20-4 so this is not an easy second round game for the Lady Knights. Game time is 6pm Monday at Northern.
The weather has already played havoc for high school baseball and the season starts officially on Tuesday for most. Rocky Mount Gryphon's home opener was scheduled for Thursday but Kent Cox and Ron Vincent have already decided to dangerous to put pitchers and batters and fielders on a baseball field when they haven't had any on field practice at all this year so far. No word as of yet when the makeup will be. Unless the schedule changes between now and then the Gryphon home opener is now set for Tuesday March 10th at 4pm against SouthWest Edgecombe.
You have probably heard that the Big Ten is trying to start to make all freshman athletes in all sports ineligible in order to give freshman a full year of college before putting them on the athletic fields. I doubt that will ever get off the ground. Seems funny to me that the power Five conferences were in such a rush to break away from rest of the NCAA in order to try to get all the TV money for themselves.
Do you suppose now what was have Texas A&M playing Kentucky in the SEC, Miami playing Notre Dame and Penn State having to travel to Nebraska for conference play that the conferences are too big an area or that this new pay the players deal is going to cost way more for each school than income from the Power Five deal. The Power Fives just maybe in their rush for greed priced themselves right into losing money instead of making more.
Sunday, March 1, 2015
Addiction Strikes Again
Those of you may remember about the HBO story on Josh Hamilton that once he left the ball park every day someone had to be with him at all times to keep him from stopping at a bar or to even buy drugs. There is a story out that Hamilton has fallen off the wagon and has had a meeting with MLB about his latest problem.
Drugs got him suspended from baseball early in his career and now at 34 he may get a 25 game suspension for this relapse if this story is true. Drugs have cut short what possibly could have been a hall of fame career had not his life been engulfed with this mental affliction. We all know whether is being fat or smoking cigarettes when ever you try to stop a habit it is hard to do so in one way or the other we all have our sins but some are harder than others to break.
Has anybody noticed that since Duke kicked one player off they have not lost a game. I see Duke is a good team but I don't see final four this year.
N C State gave back what they earned again this week another big time victory wasted losing to BC. Looking at winning percentage Mark Gottfried since he has been in Raleigh is winning nearly 65 per cent. The next step for Wolfpack basketball is beating the so so teams every time like Duke does and take your chances with the top teams.
The Big build up about the Kentucky- Arkansas game on Saturday was this was the last top 25 team Kentucky would play until the NCAA so their chance for a perfect regular season is almost 100% now. I also heard Kentucky hasn't played another top 25 team since December so will the Wildcats be tournament tested tough????
A year to forget for the Rocky Mount girls basketball team ended with a good effort at Corinth Holders. The season started losing a player to death and finished with two weeks of weather without practice. Despite all the goings on this team still finished with a 10-10 record. They had seven losses to teams still in playoffs with a combined record of 77-18. Northern 22-0 three losses, Hunt 18-6 two losses, Hayesville 19-6 one loss and Corinth Holders 18-6 one loss. If there is one thing that Pam Gainey is good at and that is teaching defense. This team stayed in most games despite poor guard play.
The Lady Knights of Northern Nash are the only Nash County school still alive heading into the second round. They are home Monday night at 6pm to Walter Williams of Burlington a 15 seed but their record is 21-4. This is a big test for the Lady Knights as they try to stay unbeaten.
Drugs got him suspended from baseball early in his career and now at 34 he may get a 25 game suspension for this relapse if this story is true. Drugs have cut short what possibly could have been a hall of fame career had not his life been engulfed with this mental affliction. We all know whether is being fat or smoking cigarettes when ever you try to stop a habit it is hard to do so in one way or the other we all have our sins but some are harder than others to break.
Has anybody noticed that since Duke kicked one player off they have not lost a game. I see Duke is a good team but I don't see final four this year.
N C State gave back what they earned again this week another big time victory wasted losing to BC. Looking at winning percentage Mark Gottfried since he has been in Raleigh is winning nearly 65 per cent. The next step for Wolfpack basketball is beating the so so teams every time like Duke does and take your chances with the top teams.
The Big build up about the Kentucky- Arkansas game on Saturday was this was the last top 25 team Kentucky would play until the NCAA so their chance for a perfect regular season is almost 100% now. I also heard Kentucky hasn't played another top 25 team since December so will the Wildcats be tournament tested tough????
A year to forget for the Rocky Mount girls basketball team ended with a good effort at Corinth Holders. The season started losing a player to death and finished with two weeks of weather without practice. Despite all the goings on this team still finished with a 10-10 record. They had seven losses to teams still in playoffs with a combined record of 77-18. Northern 22-0 three losses, Hunt 18-6 two losses, Hayesville 19-6 one loss and Corinth Holders 18-6 one loss. If there is one thing that Pam Gainey is good at and that is teaching defense. This team stayed in most games despite poor guard play.
The Lady Knights of Northern Nash are the only Nash County school still alive heading into the second round. They are home Monday night at 6pm to Walter Williams of Burlington a 15 seed but their record is 21-4. This is a big test for the Lady Knights as they try to stay unbeaten.
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