[Cactus Jack]

I feel like Tates Creek use to be good when I was in high school to now see them struggle this bad

They have really fallen off since the 2000 there last good team made the state final when Darrin Horn was there.

Tates Creek had some really good teams during the Wayne Breeden years. He was a former graduate assistant at UK and had a nice run at Owensboro High School prior to returning to Lexington. He retired in 2015, but I think they had some of the top teams in the region under him in the very late 2000's and early 2010's. It just seemed like their best years coincided with some really strong Lexington Catholic and Scott County teams.

In 2009, they went 14-12 and lost to Lexington Catholic in the first game of the district tournament, 77-69. Lexington Catholic would go on to lose to eventual state champion Holmes in the quaterfinals at Rupp. Their record from that season might not have been the most impressive, but they had losses to Male, Ballard, Scott County, Bryan Station, Holmes, Lexington Catholic, and Henry Clay, so it wasn't as if they were playing cupcakes.

In 2010, they went 21-7 and lost to Scott County in the regional semi, 69-58. Scott County would go on to lose to eventual state runner-up Ballard in the state semifinals.

In 2011, they were 24-5 and lost to Madison Central, 42-41 in the regional semis. Lexington Catholic would eventually win the region, but that Madison Central team would go on to win the state championship in 2013. The 2011 squad might have been the Commodores' most highly rated in statewide polls.

Not saying that they'd have won state going away had they lost any one of those games, but they've had some very competitive teams since their last trip to Rupp.