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1st Region has 2 teams in the top 10 of the latest rankings. 16th has no teams in the Top 25. I'd call that a tough draw IMO

I just don't think Marshall or Calloway either one has played really stiff competition, this has created nice records and ranking.  I believe APB or Boyd County has played better teams and will prevail.

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Opening game is a very good draw and the 2nd round is winnable.

Agreed!

Watched boyd and Calloway play 2 games at lex cath, Calloway is a much better basketball team

I saw these games also, Boyd is playing much better now than in December.

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For anyone saying good draw, bad draw, it comes down to two things. Does the team matchup better or worse? For instance, there is three teams Bell County does not match up against position wise: GC, StX, and DCA purely on size and athletic ability.

I seen where sports “analysts” were ranking the draws for the regions, but they go strictly off their own blind rankings. I do not see how anyone can say the 14th got a good draw. Let’s say Hazard wins, Bell wins, and GRC/Montogomery wins their respective regions, does Hazard match up with anyone of those teams? Not at all. I say that because of style of play and being on a neutral floor. Also a bigger floor, which means you have to guard athletes after giving them even more spacing. The slow, tight, defensive game that relies on rebounding and getting to the line 31 times like they did on ashland doesn’t happen at Rupp.

The 16th got a great draw regardless on boyd or ashland. Especially Ashland. Calloway and Marshall are good teams, but Ashland matches up great against both. However the elite 8 with Warren Central/BG is a different story.

If you don't match up well with opposing team, you attempt to make them play your game.  Did you ever watch any of Bobby Keith's teams?

Yes sir… during the peak, teams couldn’t play man or zone against them cause they had guys to beat about anyone 1 on 1, and could shoot anyone out of a zone. Defense wise they pressured you into beating them off the dribble and if you got to the rim you had to finish over some huge and physical guys. The only time they had bad matchups was when they were outmatched athletically, and that was seldom. The allan Houston teams at ballard were some of the few that did have better athletes. 

However, one must understand how basketball in general has changed to make it easier to attack teams that played like clay. Postionless basketball was not a thing in the 80s or really 90s. It is every where you look now. I can’t see Clay playing that ferocious on ball defense against a team of 5 shooters. Getting those big clay county centers to guard on the perimeter would’ve changed how they played every where else cause you don’t have a cornbread fed monster standing under the rim waiting on you.

But Clay still found a way to beat Ballard in the first matchup.  Can't say that I have ever saw a HS team that truly had 5 shooters.