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Semifinals set: Green Hill vs Beech Hendersonville vs Lebanon

Region quarterfinal matchups are set. Who wins? Station Camp at Green Hill - I’ll take Green Hill Cookeville at Beech - I think this will be a great game. I’ll go Beech close Wilson Central At Hendersonville - Wilson Central surprisingly has two wins over Hendersonville this season so I guess it wouldn’t really be much of an upset but I’ll take Hendersonville at home. Gallatin at Lebanon - should come down to the wire and could go either way but I’ll go with my heart. Lebanon

District 10-4A seeds for district tournament 1. Station Camp 2. Beech 3. Gallatin 4. Hendersonville 5. Hunters Lane 6. McGavock

1. Green Hill 7-1 2. Lebanon 6-2 3. Cookeville 4-4 4. Mt. Juliet 2-6 5. Wilson Central 1-7 District tournament starts later this week with a Wilson Central/Mt Juliet rematch in an elimination game. Saturday semifinals will have top-seed Green Hill taking on the winner of WC/MJ and another round of Lebanon/Cookeville in the 2/3 game. Those games will be played at Cookeville correct?

Thru 2/10 games: Green Hill 7-1 Lebanon 6-1 Cookeville 3-4 Mt Juliet 2-5 Wilson Central 0-7 2/13 games: Lebanon at Cookeville Wilson Central at Mt Juliet

Through 2/7 games Green Hill 6-1 Lebanon 6-1 Cookeville 2-4 Mt Juliet 2-4 Wilson Central 0-6 Friday 2/10 games: Green Hill at Mt Juliet Cookeville at Wilson Central

Tonight’s games Mt. Juliet at Lebanon Green Hill at Wilson Central Green Hill 5-1 Lebanon 5-1 Mt. Juliet 2-3 Cookeville 2-4 Wilson Central 0-5

Lebanon at Cookeville postponed until 2/13 Wilson Central at Mt. Juliet postponed until Wednesday 2/1

At the halfway point of the district schedule. Lebanon 4-0 (3 of remaining 4 games on the road) Green Hill 3-1 (3 of remaining 4 on the road) Mt. Juliet 2-2 (2 home; 2 road) Cookeville 1-3 (3 home; 1 road) Wilson Central 0-4 (3 home; 1 road) Friday 1/27: Lebanon at Wilson Central Green Hill at Cookeville

Understand completely. Are they all expected back at some point or season enders?

What’s going on with Cookeville? They dropped a home non-district game vs Warren Co. this weekend and that makes 5 straight losses for them. They’re better than that. Lebanon 4-0 Green Hill 2-1 Mt. Juliet 2-1 Cookeville 0-3 Wilson Central 0-3 1/24 games: Mt. Juliet at Green Hill Wilson Central at Cookeville

The MJ-Cookeville result surprised me. MJ has been improving as the season has gone along and have another big opportunity Friday night hosting Lebanon. I still think Cookeville will be tough to beat at home, which is where their next 4 district games will be. Lebanon has protected their home court well but now face 4 in a row on the road.

After 1/13 games: Lebanon 2-0 Green Hill 1-0 Mt. Juliet 1-0 Cookeville 0-2 Wilson Central 0-2 Tuesday 1/17 games: Green Hill at Lebanon Cookeville at Mt. Juliet

The new basketball district starting in 23-24 is going to be interesting for sure. Cookeville is an 80-90 minute drive one way from future district opponents Stewarts Creek, Smyrna, and Lavergne. Bizarre!!

I think any of Green Hill, Cookeville, or Lebanon could win the district. Green Hill has good wins over Beech and Blackman in non-league and already a home win over Cookeville. Cookeville has an early season win at Stone Memorial. Lebanon’s best win so far is at home vs Gallatin. They do have a head scratching loss at Riverdale. Lebanon is the only one I’ve seen play and I don’t know if they have enough besides Jarred Hall to win the district this year. They really miss Yarin Alexander this year. At this point I’d say Green Hill wins the regular season title.