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Knox Central
Jackson County
Bell County
Corbin
Harlan County
Clay County
North Laurel
South Laurel

9-10
Harlan, Middlesboro, Barbourville, Williamsburg

Jackson Co, Bell Co, and Knox Central are the top three and could flipflop at anytime. Corbin, Harlan Co, Clay Co, North and South Laurel will be a notch below those three but all 5 will be very evenly matched. Its adds up to be another season where 7-8 different teams could win the region, but will be another one and done at Rupp for the 13th. There is some very good young talent coming up in this region and hopefully they will be able to get the 13th back to being able to compete again. 2008 was the last close game the 13th had at the sweet 16. South Laurel lost to Hazard 50-47. Corbin did play Lou Eastern fairly close in 2009 but ended up losing by 14. I felt Corbin was actually a better team than Eastern.