[Old School Hound]

Harlan Ind 3-3, including getting beat by 30 at Pikeville.  They are defending district champs, but Trent Noah, from Harlan Co., was playing on a broken foot and was severely limited in that game.  Harlan Ind is a little too streaky to have much confidence in.  They don’t run a lot of offense and are too dependent on hitting the three.  Now, with that said, if they get hot from deep, they are dangerous.  With that said, I believe strongly that North and Knox are 1 and 2, but Harlan County has to be three with 20+ margin wins over Corbin, Perry, and South.  How can you ignore that?

The Corbin team, as the season progresses and as their football athletes round into basketball playing form, will not resemble the team that HC beat early in the season, especially if , and when, Patterson returns to the team. HC will not leave Corbin with another win over the Hounds this season, not in regular season or regional, in my opinion. The only caveat to what I said is the fact that HC has been tough on Corbin in the regional in recent years, even when the Hounds have been as good or better.