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While I agree with he general premise of your post I think you can rank these teams based on result inside he region. Ashland has wins over Lewis, Boyd, and a bad Greenup team. Russell has wins over Boyd, Raceland, Fairview, Morgan, and I believe East. Given that who would you rank ahead of Ashland or Russell inside region, outside of Fleming of course?

Inside the region, no one. And, you are quite correct. The thread deals solely with the 16th Region. I tend to look down the line to when the region representative goes to one of the major venues or to Rupp Arena. In that case, the outlook isn't very good for any of the three. I assume you would agree that, to compete, a school needs to schedule strong opponents. A loss against a good team is better in the long run than a win over a weak team in your own region.

There appear to be a couple of decent teams in the Ashland tournament- NCC for sure and maybe Henderson County or West Jessamine. Hopefully, Ashland and Russell will play them somewhere along the line. It would be good for both of them.