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If they want to improve attendance, they should not have the boys play the same week that the NCAA has the first 32 games on Thursday and Friday. There are so many people who watch NCAA tournament that would go the the State Tournament if it was not at the same time. All they have to do is start the boys a week early when they typically have girls start, and they could start the girls tournament on the Friday before and have 2 days in between the girls and boys. Attendance would go up. I would go for sure every year, which I only go about a 1/4 of the time now, most years opting to watch ncaa on tv .

Thanks for posting I just commented on another post asking about Holiday tournaments. No one ever seems to talk about high school basketball in Nashville. It is too bad as there are some quality teams that play at these tournaments each year but no one seems to know how to market their tournaments.

Does anyone have any information on Nashville area Holiday basketball tournament. I love living in TN, but I hate the fact that not too many people care about high school basketball. The paper does a horrible job covering it. Beech Tournament? Is Overton or Father Ryan having a Christmas tournament this year?

Thanks Greenwheel. Looks, like some fun teams to watch. I know Union City in the recent past has had some awesome teams, play really fast. Not sure what they are like now. Looks like there is a mix of small and large schools in tournament.

Father Ryan Tournament: Dec 28-30 1st round Ryan vs Shelbyville Centennial vs Lavergne Oakland vs Hillsboro Mt. Juliet vs Clarksville Overton Christmas Tournament Monday 12/27/2010 800 AM BGA vs John Overton 930 AM Glencliff vs David Lipscomb 1230 PM Spring Hill vs East Literature (Two of top AA teams in the state) 330 PM Memphis Westwood vs Ravenwood (Top A contender vs AAA contender) 630 PM BGA/ John Overton winner vs Glencliff/David Lipscomb winner 930 PM Atlanta Creekside vs Whites Creek MidState Tournament at Ezell Harding 12/28 11:30 am Friendship Christian School vs Donelson Christian Academy 2:30 pm Portland High School vs Columbia Academy 5:30 pm Middle Tennessee Christian School vs Aaron Academy 8:30 pm Ezell Harding Christian School vs Coffee County High School Does anyone have the lineup for the Beech Tournament?? I might try to get to Overton and Father Ryan, not too far from each other. Would still like to see what Beech has as well.

Surely there is a parent, student or player excited about basketball in Middle TN? that is going to be involved in one of the Christmas tournaments?? Bueller, Bueller, Bueller, Bueller?????? anyone? anyone? anyone?

do you have a bracket for whole tournament with game times for all 3 days?

i live in sumner county and that would be fine with me if they play to their potential. i'm just a basketball fan in general and was giving my take on what i saw from them, of course that was 1 game, but saw quite a bit of the same last year too when i watched them. i just know 10aa is far and away more talented and deep compared to 9aa from top to bottom.

Thanks for the info. Any others?

only seen whhs 1 time and my scouting report is they have multiple 6-3/6-4 guards, that don't like to boxout and are in love with shooting 3's and play a zone that is not very effective against athleticism. i am basing my scouting report off of watching them play east lit., who could make a lot of good teams look bad. but i have a feeling that is the way whhs would play more times than not, limited defense, have a tough time rebounding and peremiter oriented. they do have some shooters, but it is hard to win a lot of games relying on 3's. agree that they have the talent to finish in top 2 in 9aa, outside of that it will get much tougher unless they improve rebounding and defense.

What Middle TN schools are hosting Christmas Tournaments? Beech usually has one. Father Ryan and Overton. Dates? What teams are playing? schedule??

Why on earth would the coach of Beech take out his starters with a 13 point lead in the 3rd qtr, just because the LA coach did?? Just because they gave up or he was fed up with starters doesn't dictate that the other team play their bench. If you have any issues it needs to be with your team and coach, not the other team. There is no rule written or unwritten that dictates that the team ahead has to pull off in the 3rd quarter just because the other team decides to play their bench. Your issue needs to be with your coach's decision and not Beech. I'm just a basketball fan and was at the tournament not rooting for a particular team. I saw LA play Antioch and as I said they looked really sharp. The next day they did not look that sharp against RedBank and I did notice that the coach made some substitutions against Red Bank that he didn't against Antioch. I'm assuming he wasn't happy with some players. The Red Bank game they just could not keep up with the speed of Red Bank and were outworked on the boards. It was a fast physical game and LA was not able to keep up. They have some incredible shooters and some good athletes, I just don't think they showed up to play on Tuesday and apparently not for the Beech game that I didn't get to see. Happy New Year. Couldn't have said it better myself mr jones. Why in the world only down 13 would the starters be pulled for the rest of the game? What was the issue? OK take on situations seemed to be a little skewed. I was somewhat surprised at the Red Bank score given that LA beat them early in the year. The Beech score was a real shocker. Figured Beech was pretty good but not that good. Things should get better for LA as all the games they got left, except for one, will be against upper cumberland teams. They're big city games didn't turn out very well, but maybe it will help in the long haul. I overheard a couple of the LA fans talking about the Red Bank game being early in the year and that Red Bank were missing the football players and they were thinking it was going to be a tougher game. To be honest with you after watching them against Antioch, I thought they would have played Red Bank a little closer than they did.

Sounds like Overton is the real deal this year. I wished I could have gone to the tournament, I decided to stay local and went to Beech. DL is amazing as they just keep coming up with new gym rats every couple of years and reload. Everyone in the gym knows what they are going to do, they just execute their same offense and man to man D year after year with home grown talent. You can throw stones at the privates all day long, but I admire DL even though I'm not a fan of DL. As anyone that knows much about their programs knows that they just develop from the kids that have been going to the school since they were little. They rarely have natural athletes, just kids who have been taught the fundamentals of the game and have willed themselves into players.

Not sure who the best is but the CPA 8th grader that starts varsity basketball must be pretty good. I think his name is Jalen Lindsey and he is 6-6".

The 3 losses are tough for White House, but I'm glad to see them playing in a tough tournament like this with good competition. This will help a young team get better by playing better teams. Those big southern Illionois tournaments like Carbondale and Centralia are serious competition with some incredible teams coming from St Louis, Chicago, Memphis/W. TN and the local teams are tough as well.