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I just found out today that this sport exited at the high school level. I think it is great, and will provide another athletic opportunity for girls.

If Maplewood can make second place then that means either the coaching staff did a great job , or that the region is down this season. The Panthers were very senior heavy last season. The may have only five starters total returning this year.

"If you aint cheatin' you aint tryin."

The best way to eliminate weak 4th place teams is to have fewer classifications. Maybe in another twenty years Tennessee will have enough schools to properly round out six classifications.

And perhaps congratulations can just be given to the winning team. Or nothing said at all. Because it will change nothing. Just as replying to people of your mindset is a waste of time.

Perhaps one day a perfect game will be played by the players, coached by the coaches, and officiated by the officials.

You people are so sure of your teams. But nothing is certain come tournament time. Macon County was not a certain today. Riverdale was not a certain today. And it looks as if Loretto might be some competition in your "super"region.

If East Nashville had an enrollment of over 1100 students they would likely be 5A in football instead of 3A.

i think your thinking is spot on. Perhaps District 9 and District 12 can swap their district designation. That way current District 9 teams would stand a good chance winning a region game, and maybe even getting to the Sectional. But they would still have to get past District 10 ,even in District 12, to make it to the state quartefinals. Of course, they could always go to District 8 and avoid District 10 teams altogether. But now they would have to get past the Chattanooga teams to get to the quarterfinals.

Why did you start two threads on the same game?

Maybe you mean District 10 of Region 5. Teams from District 9 rarely win games in the regional tournament.

Go back and read my post. I never said that the state tournament has the top 8 teams. In fact, I said they probably aren't eight best. I then went on to suggest that they are likely no worse than top ten. Now you are backing out on your assertion that the 6th best team in your district could beat one of the lesser teams in the state. You now want to expand the population and say they are six teams in your region that could do it. I don't know your region. But I'm still not so sure about that. But I will give a slim possibility that a particular region could do it in a given year. Finally, who beat whom in the past is irrelevant. It is tournament time. What is important is who you beat now; just like the NCAA tournament. I'm sure there were plenty of teams last season, from strong conferences, who didn't get in the tournament but would have otherwise beaten Loyola-Chicago. But the Ramblers were the ones who made it to the Final Four.

I see you picked the "big city" school over the "county" schools.

So you are saying that the sixth place team from your district is at least better than the "worst" team in the state quarterfinals? I personally feel that the way the post season weeds out the pretenders in basketball is better than it does in football. A team first has to get through a district tournament, then a regional tournament; then a sectional match up before it make to the state quarterfinals. By the time that time I feel confident that while they may not be the eight best teams in the state, no team is worst that the tenth best. But your district is so good the sixth best team is still better than the eighth "best team at the quarter finals. Keeping in mind that any team making it to the quarterfinal is one of the better teams from two regions/ four districts.

If only region champions were taken there would be no need to "host" The region champions will be in the state quarterfinals already as there are only 8 regions in basketball.