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Why not congratulate Price? With two trips down the floor, she won the ballgame tonight. Up by 6 with about 5:30 to play, she hits a three and then the next time down the floor, she hit a jumper from just above the foul line that sealed the game, with 5 of her 26 points.

Is orrick playing tonight for east?

Greeneville and Cocke county Cherokee/Jefferson county and morristown west/morristown east play tomorrow for a berth.

Region 1-AAA Watch Dobyns-Bennett clobbered Daniel Boone 53-25 TN High beat Crockett 76-46 Both of those teams qualify for the Region 1-AAA tourney and will play in a semifinal on Friday. Science Hill/Sullivan East and Sullivan South/Sullivan Central both play on Tuesday. Winners advance to the Region tourney and a semifinal game on Friday.

All those points are correct. 24 Games (2 off of last year's total) 10 District Games The rest is filled by non-conference and tournaments (2 games for each tourney) HOF Games - can play 2, do not count against the 24. The Greeneville schedule on here is not the one posted on TSSAA.org. The schedule on TSSAA does not have the Seymour game, nor does it have the 2 HOF games, nor does it have tonight's Hampton game, which I believe is a boys only contest against Cumberland Gap HS, which gives them a total of "24 games". Cocke County had problems with the schedule this year. The improvement of both squads saw West Greene, Knox Central and Knox Carter drop them. Cocke County doesnt get many Tri Cities teams to come play them with a home-and-home because they usually only come down as far as Greeneville or Morristown for mid-week games. The other option would be to try and schedule those teams on a Saturday night.

Its never been terribly impressive, but its even worse this year.

Greeneville wins. Sounded like they held on from reports I heard. Heard that they won 39-35 and/or 39-32. Not sure which is correct (Scoreboard here is down, too). Either way... 1) Greeneville 2) Cocke County 3) Morristown East 4) Cherokee 5) Jefferson County 6) Morristown West Wednesday, Feb. 13 6 PM - #4 Cherokee vs #5 Jefferson County 7:30 PM - #3 Morristown East vs. #6 Morristown West Friday, Feb. 15th 6 PM - #1 Greeneville vs. Cherokee/Jefferson County winner 7:30 PM - #2 Cocke County vs. Morristown East/Morristown West winner Monday, Feb. 18th 6 PM - Consolation 7:30 PM - Championship

I think thats correct. Cosby High School was affiliated in that program for several years.

My All-Conference Team POTY - Nicole Dickson Greeneville - Rachel Collins, Devan McIntyre Cocke County - Morgan Buda, Shannon Depew Morristown East - Leah Leeper Cherokee - Ashlee Price Jefferson County - Haley Nelson Morristown West - Kelly Smith Thats only eight members of the team (POTY has always been a seperate award than all-conference). You could add a member to each Greeneville and Cocke County - or you could add one each to East and Cherokee. I'm not really sure. But I think you have to keep the list to 10 as the conference isn't strong enough to warrant more than that. Coaches of the year, all three are valid picks - although West's record makes Galyon a bit of an out-of-the box pick, but given the circumstances, understandable. Crumbley took a team that had three experienced starters, and really three scorers when the season began and got them to another crown and a third consecutive solid season against competition this side of the mid-state (Two losses, @ Webb and @ M-West). O'Neil finished second place with a team that had four returning starters which added Lloyd and Pruitt and not much else when the season began. He developed depth and added scoring after Christmas all while overcoming an injury and a 1-3 start in the conference. Galyon took what was already a young team that was thin inside, to a very competitive effort in non-conference games, shocked Greeneville, played most every else close, all while losing their best player just after the halfway point of the IMAC schedule. Stat of the Season: Not really a stat, but a trend that I find interesting. Take points per game for the entire season, rank them from high to low. That gives you Morristown West, Jefferson County, Cherokee, East, Cocke County, Greeneville. Reverse that list and you should have a familiar list (the probable final standings).

Highest Seed. Tiebreakers are 1) Head-to-head 2) Record against the Highest Seed 3) Coin flip (or draw if necessary).

Here is the tourney schedule.. As gogreene posted last night, the fifth and sixth seeds are dependent on the result of Greeneville and West next Saturday. A West win makes them #5. Otherwise Jefferson County is the 5. Opening Round Wednesday, February 13 Game 1 - 6 PM - #4 Cherokee vs. #5 Jefferson County/Morristown West Game 2 - 7:30 PM - #3 Morristown East vs. #6 Jefferson County/Morristown West Semifinals Friday, February 15 Game 3 - 6 PM - #1 Greeneville vs. Winner of Game 1 Game 4 - 7:30 PM - #2 Cocke County vs. Winner of Game 2 Finals Monday, February 19 Game 5 (Consolation) - 6 PM - Loser of Game 3 vs. Loser of Game 4 Game 6 (Championship) - 7:30 PM - Winner of Game 3 vs Winner of Game 4

Yes it should. Especially if Greeneville is the one. Greeneville holds a 2-2 record on the two 4/5 teams, and one of the two wins came in OT.

9-for-23 at the line. Started 1-of-12.... Hit 7-of-9 in the final 2:45 for crunch time though.

Casey Kelley was hired on January 15th by the school. Kelley is a home grown product. Played from 87-90 and has coached since 1995 - with the exception of this past season - at the school after a four-year career at Emory and Henry.

That's the way most sports are done in this area. That's not this years official list, though. The girls are usually announced after the finals and the boys are announced after the last conference team has been eliminated.

Aside from depew, Cocke county isn't a very good team @ the line. The team is 58 percent and depew is around 75 percent. The post players - including depew - have a 61.3 percentage there. Take out depew and they are 50 percent. The guards are at 55.7.

Cocke County @ Jefferson County Greeneville @ East Cherokee @ West There's no telling what to expect. History says to expect a three-way tie for second Cocke County has won the last three against Jefferson County, all around 10 point margins. The other game in the last two years was a 28-point blowout by the Lady Patriots at their place. Morristown East gave Greeneville their toughest test of the season to-date in the conference, prior to the West game. It's at Isenberg-Siler, too...and thats another tough place to play. Cherokee and West? Who knows with the stall-ball tactics what can happen. Cherokee is struggling as well....getting blown out in Newport and barely getting by West Greene on Monday.

30-28 and not a slow-down game? wow. Cocke County and Pigeon Forge played a similar ugly game in mid-December and the Lady Red have since only dropped one game (to Greeneville) since. Jefferson County and Sevier County played each other close in the first game, not surprising there. East of course played them close last night.

I'm not sure on the tiebreaker system. Since the TSSAA could care less about the District Tournaments, there is no statewide system of tiebreakers as we see in football and it is up to individual districts to develop their own system. (The TSSAA leaves Districts on their own as to determining the way to place teams into the tournaments. As an example, Districts are not required to have tournaments, the board of contol could simply say that the four teams with the best regular season records in the district advance. All the TSSAA cares about is that those districts place four teams into the regional tourney to determine who makes the sub-state round, when the TSSAA takes over, meanwhile the TSSAA administrates the entire state football tournament.) I think if scenario one developed on Friday (East loss, Cocke County loss and Cherokee win)....which isnt far fetched...then the three teams involved could be forced to draw for seeds 2-4. In part A...I see the point about saying East went 3-1 with the two other teams, but not sure if they can penalize Cocke County because Cherokee lost twice to East. Of course, if your East and Cocke County - you like the scenario, because you won't finish any worse than third place and avoid Greeneville until the finals. I'm not really sure on this... Scenario two (East and Cocke County both win, or both lose and Cherokee loses) would involve a coin flip between Cocke County and East for second and third - since the two teams split the head-to-head series. Scenario 3 looks like either a draw or using the tiebreaker system you listed.

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Updated Standings Greeneville 7-1 Morristown East 5-4 Cocke County 5-4 Cherokee 4-5 Jefferson County 3-6 Morristown West 2-6 Tiebreakers.... East has it over Cherokee via a sweep. Cocke County split with both East and Cherokee Cherokee swept Jefferson County and has defeated West Jefferson County split with West Remaining Games 2/1 Cocke County @ Jefferson County Cherokee @ Morristown West Greeneville @ Morristown East 2/9 Morristown West @ Greeneville

What does your crystal ball say about how many points the Jefferson County boys will score.

Ray, you make some good observations. The majority of our comments here are based off in-game decisions, etc of what is seen during a game. That's really not fair, since not many others are seeing what goes on the other 3-4 days of the week at practice. Your observation from the Ladies Classic confirms that, I believe. It also shows - as you said - the assistant coaches at Greeneville are probably head coach material. I admit I've questioned some of the game decisions by Coach Crumbley - and did some more questioning just to fire barb up a bit /biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" />. But, most of those questionable decisions came in year one. Despite that, overall she's probably a pretty darn good coach. 81-18 (or whatever the record is) is something most established, long-time head coaches would love to have; let alone a first-time head coach. Take away two losses at the state tournament level, and three losses against tough competition to begin this season and its even better. To me, she teaches discipline, which is evident by their defense, and then the players respond to her. Twice she has called timeout this season to chew her players out for a lack of rebounding. They came back and won the rebounding battle the rest of the game from that point. I know ray mentioned something about that tactic, but perhaps she knows who she can push like that, and who she cant? Of course, she appears to have a good relationship with the players off the court. Also, another point I think some people overlook. To me, a coach can be judged by how the team performs in the final 2-3 minutes of close ball games. Buzz Peterson's teams folded like none other in this time. Crumbley seems to have a good track record here, pulling out the majority of the few close games her teams are involved in, including two last post season (Cocke County, Daniel Boone, Science Hill). I know a lot of folks are making a lot out of this loss for whatever reason, but if West had Goins - would it be as shocking? I thought West probably matched up well, or better than Greeneville guard wise, especially in terms of point production. West obviously lacked in the post match-up, but seemed to overcome that one somehow. Its tough to discount the Galyon factor, as he is likely the only coach with a winning record (4-3) over Crumbley in playing more than one or two games.

On tap this week, barb. Cherokee @ Cocke County Jefferson County @ Greeneville Morristown West @ Morristown East Cherokee/Cocke County winner is in 2nd place. East must win against West to remain in a tie for second place with that winner. One would have to think the Cherokee/Cocke County winner is in the drivers seat with one game remaining with East playing Greeneville in their last conference game of the year. But, either one winning isnt a sure thing to finish second, with both having road games (Cocke County @ Jeff and Cherokee @ West) in the final Friday night of the season. A West win over East would put them percentage points ahead of Jefferson County (Presuming Greeneville beats them on Friday), with two games left for the Lady Trojans and one for Jefferson County. Lots of jockeying for positions 2, 3, and 6. No one wants 4 and 5 right now.

I think it was a 20-game regular season winning streak until West beat them that regular season.