[bball_fan]

I'm a grade school coach in Pike County, so my heart of course goes to Elisha winning Mr. Basketball! I've read on here about all of there stats, who they played and so forth. This award should go to the best player on the best team. Valley proved they was the best team in Class A, then they proved they was the best team period by winning the sweet 16. Both of these tournaments were state wide talent showcases and Elisha came up major in both tournaments, winning MVP for both.

There scoring was about the same, from what I have read. Sewell might have averaged more rebounds but Elisha did not just break but smashed the all time steals record. As for how good the teams were they played on, both of these teams was ranked number 1 at some point during the regular season and I do not believe either ever fell out of the top 10. I know there are a lot of talented teams in Louisville for Trinity to go up against, but Valley does travel and plays really good teams from out of state and in state. Just ask J-Town!

As for the way the Sweet 16 is decided and so many teams being left out because certain regions are loaded and others are not! This tournament has been ran this way since I believe 1918 if you check KHSAA. No one has come out and said it, but I believe some are trying to say Trinity was a better team then Valley. If Trinity could not even win there own region, how do we know for sure they would have won state or made the finals if they had come out of the 15th like Valley did? And you can say what you want about Shelby Valley's region being weaker then Trinity's, but the closest scoring game Valley played in this run was against Betsy Layne in the regional final. I'm not by any means saying Betsy Layne is as good as Ballard or Trinity but the 15th isn't a push over anymore. And for one last little point, who beat Ballard and who didn't?

Say what you want, but you just watched Shelby Valley become a modern day version of Munchie from Hoosiers!