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If no class system then why have or call this a class A championship???

Once again, there is no "official" class A championship. At least not one that is recognized by the KHSAA. The KHSAA recognizes six different state champions in football, one for each class. There is only one state champion in boys' basketball, and that's the team that wins the Sweet Sixteen in March.

So what is going on down at the Expo? Simply put, it's a tournament called the All-A Classic, sponsored by the Touchstone Energy company. Just like the Toyota Classic or even the Pikeville Invitational, it is just a tournament that crowns a winner. The organizers of this event set the criteria for what constitutes a "A" school, and only those schools are eligible to participate in the tournament. Local schools such as SV, P-Burg, and Sheldon Clark obviously fell under the cutoff point, likely as a result of declining enrollments in recent years.

In the end, though, there is no such thing as a basketball "class A championship" in the state of Kentucky. There will be a winner of the All-A Classic tournament, but they will simply be the tournament champion. Nothing more, nothing less.