HOOPSGURU

as of January 13th, 2008 1) Grace Christian 2) Chatt Arts & Sciences 3) Hampton 4) University High 5) Greenback 6) Grace Baptist T7) Silverdale/Temple 8) Oliver Springs 9) Cloudland 10) South Pittsburgh Knox Christian, Harriman, Unaka, Rockwood, Berean, Hancock, Cosby, David Brainerd, 21st Century, Wartburg

Honestly, I don't think Grace or William Blount is deserving. Grace has lost to a few AA's and William Blount just looks mediocre lately. Who else would be deserving of # 10? I would have put Loudon with their win at AE, but AC seemed to handle them too easily. #10????

Who won between Seymour and Pigeon Forge?

After looking closer, Cloudland has only lost to one single A school, Grace Christian. Cloudland should move up. Good observations sportie!

01/06/08 AAA: 1) Oak Ridge(14-1) 2) Bearden(14-1) 3) Maryville(11-3) 4) Farragut(14-4) 5) Dobyns Bennett(13-2) 6) Powell(11-2) 7) Science Hill(13-5) 8) Red Bank 9) Cleveland(16-4) 10)Walker Valley(12-3) Sullivan East, William Blount, Knox Halls, Mo West, Cocke County, Ooltewah

True, but Harriman just beat Rockwood, and all these teams have diappointing losses too, more based on my opinion of how teams are playing right now, but I'm probably dead wrong.

01/06/08 AA: 1) Howard(8-0) 2) Brainerd(9-2) 3) Austin East(13-4) 4) Fulton(7-4) 5) Anderson County(14-2) 6) Chattanooga Christian(10-2) 7) Unicoi County(14-2) 8) Carter(12-4) 9) Chucky Doak(10-1) 10)Rutledge(10-4) & McMinn Central(10-4) Loudon, Sweetwater, Marion Co, Tellico, Stone Memorial, Cumberland Gap, Gatlinburg Pittman, Catholic, South Greene, Johnson County,

01/06/08 A: 1) Grace Christian 2) CSAS 3) Hampton 4) Temple 5) Silverdale 6) University High 7) Oliver Springs 8) Harriman 9) Grace Baptist 10) Greenback Rockwood, South Pitt, Wartburg, Onieda, Cosby, Unaka, Cloudland, Jellico, Berean, Knox Christian

1) Oak Ridge 2) Bearden 3) Maryville 4) Austin East 5) Fulton 6) Farragut 7) Anderson County 8) Powell 9) Carter 10) William Blount/Grace Christian/

1) Oak Ridge(4AAA) 2) Bearden(3AAA) 3) Maryville(3AAA) 4) Farragut(3AAA) 5) Science Hill/Dobyns Bennett(1AAA) 6) Powell(4AAA) 7) Red Bank(6AAA) 8) Cleveland(5AAA) 9) Walker Valley(5AAA) 10)Sullivan East(1AAA) 1AAA-Volunteer 2AAA-Cocke County, Mo West, Greeneville 3AAA-Karns, Halls(w/Cooper) 4AAA-William Blount, South Doyle, Lenoir City 5AAA-Bradley Central, McMinn County 6AAA-Ooltewah

1) Howard 2) Brainerd 3) Austin East 4) Fulton 5) Chattanooga Christian 6) Carter 7) Anderson County 8) Unicoi County 9) Loudon 10) Chucky Doak 1AA-Johnson County, South Greene 2AA-Gatlinburg Pittman, Cumberland Gap. Rutledge, Union County 3AA-Gibbs, Alcoa 4AA-Catholic, Stone Memorial 5AA-Sweetwater, Tellico Plains, Meigs County 6AA-Marion County, Hixson

1) Chattanooga Arts & Sciences(6A) 2) Grace Christian(3A) 3) Hampton(1A) 4) University High(1A) 5) Grace Baptist(5A) 6) Temple(5A) 7) Greenback(3A) 8) Rockwood(3A) 9) South Pittsburgh(6A) 10)Oliver Springs(4A) 1A-Unaka, Cloudland 2A-Cosby, Hancock, Jellico 3A-Harriman, Berean, Knox Christian 4A-Oneida 5A-? 6A-?

Tied#10 Loudon/Catholic

Argue all you want, in my opinion Farragut could probably be ahead of AC too. Powell lost to Cocke by a lot and beat Farragut. William Blount lost to Farragut and almost to LC. AE lost to Loudon, who lost to Stone Memorial, who lost to Anderson County, who lost to Carter, who lost to Rutledge and on and on. Nobody is perfect, but overall is what I tried to look at....not just one game.....Loudon could probably be higher after finishing 3rd at Super 16 but they lost too many early including Cocke County, but we'll see....good food for fodder..... Big games this week: Oak Ridge/Farragut Fulton/Austin East Anderson County/Loudon McMinn Central/Sweetwater South Doyle/Maryville Alcoa/William Blount

Now that half the season has been played, how close was the News Sentinel's predictions to being accurate? HOOPSGURU's opinion differs slightly: 1) Bearden 2) Oak Ridge 3) Maryville 4) Austin East 5) Fulton 6) Anderson County 7) Farragut 8) Powell 9) Carter 10) Cocke County some of these teams have beaten each other, so this is more about consistency...please feel free to argue.... Close but no stogie(next 12 in no order): Loudon, Catholic, Grace Christian, Chucky Doak, Rutledge, Cumberland Gap, Morristown West, South Doyle, William Blount, Lenoir City, Sweetwater, McMinn Central