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Who is hosting some play dates May 29-31?

AJHS starts two 6th graders, four 7th graders, and a few 8th graders. I thinks Adamsville will be fine. Selmer Middle has 14 8th graders. We will be ok.

Yes they have all sports classified together.

With the money being generated by the four classes, the TSSAA will never go back to 3 classes in my opinion. Mississippi is going to 7 classes next year which I think is crazy to say the least. Some classes will only have 25-30 teams in them.

It was the Uconn/Gonzaga game played March 25.

Did anyone see the UCONN/Gonzaga game? There is a lot of discussion about the state tournament being watered down with too many classifications. Gonzaga is an outstanding team and they got hammered by 30 points in the elite 8. With the way the game is played today, that can happen to a lot of good teams if the other team is hitting three's and rolling. Happens all the time at all levels. It is just today's game. Do some teams get in they aren't state caliber teams? Absolutely. Do some really good teams get in and get blown out? Absolutely.

I'm not saying that is going to happen, but with the TSSAA you just never know how they handle Memphis districts and regions. I really don't see the Memphis teams having but two districts in the new cycle. It should be interesting.

I think if you just swap Ripley and Liberty that could be the districts in 13 & 14. They could send Ripley to one of the Memphis districts too. Memphis could get three districts again. Two four team districts and one with 5 teams if Ripley moves in. Who knows with the TSSAA?

If I read correctly off of the TSSAA website, the districts and region alignments should be out before the November 17th board of control meeting.

Classification will be released tomorrow. Districts and Region alignments will be soon after that.

Michael Odom did a really good job of breaking down the possible new districts. It looks like in 2A Memphis will only have two districts this upcoming cycle. Adamsville, JCM, Liberty, Madison, Riverside, and Scotts Hill could be a new district. Huntingdon, Gibson County, Peabody, Westview, and Milan could be another district. Not sure where they will put Camden and Ripley. Those two districts will likely be Region opponents, with the sectionals coming out of Memphis. That looks like a pretty good scenario.

Enrollment numbers are out!! Anxious to see the cutoffs. Several schools will be moving classifications regardless where the cutoffs are. Should be interesting.

At the administrators meeting this week, the TSSAA announced that all enrollment numbers are in and they are waiting for the state to verify those numbers. That should take a few days to get that done. As soon as they are verified the numbers will be released along with the classification breakdowns. District alignments will soon follow after that so all schools can look and see if the want to appeal, or move up, etc.

Our (Adamsville) official enrollment that we turned in a couple of weeks ago is 445. We lost a lot of kids to Covid and they just haven't returned.

Once they are in and some simple math we should know where the classification breakdowns should be. I think a lot of schools are anxious to see where the cut-off numbers will be this time.

When will the enrollment numbers be added to the enrollment report? When all the schools are accounted for?

Gibson County girl's basketball and Trenton football are elite programs. Of course they are going to beat teams who have larger enrollments. Why is it ok for Adamsville, Scotts Hill, and Riverside to go play across the river, but not ok for Gibson County? If Gibson County is beating schools that have 2500+ enrollments on a consistent basis, why are you worried about schools that basically have the same enrollments? Plain and simple, you don't like being in the same district with Westview and the substate with Loretto and Summertown. I wouldn't either. I guess we will see in a few months where the new enrollment numbers align us with.

Geography doesn't support 3 classes either. Unless, you think it is fair from a competitive standpoint that schools with almost 500 more kids are playing in districts with smaller schools. At least with 4 classes schools are playing against other schools with the same enrollment numbers. Who knows? When the numbers come out districts and regions may be different.

I understand why you don't like the the 4 classes. Gibson County has to run the gauntlet now to make it to state. When you have to go through Westview, Union City, Huntingdon in the district and then Loretto or Summertown in the Substate. That is an extremely tough route. When Adamsville, Scotts Hill, and Riverside had to play in a district with schools that had anywhere between 500-700 more students for 4 years that was brutal. At least you are getting to play against schools that basically have the same number of students. Tougher for sure. I don't think the 4 classes are going away for the near future.

McNairy as of last week was around 700 kids. It's just according to where the cutoff numbers will be. I look for AA to add several teams in West Tennessee if the numbers are any where close to 2020 classification numbers.

Our district could add three teams and lose one. It could look like this next year for us: Adamsville Scotts Hill Riverside Madison McNairy JCM Liberty The northern district could be: Gibson Co., Westview, Dyersburg, Milan, Huntingdon, Union City, Trenton. Should be interesting when the numbers come out.

Absolutely!! I know that Adamsville, Scotts Hill, and Riverside love the 4 classification system. We were in old three classification with teams that had 500-600 more students than us. It was a breathe of fresh air to be with schools that have the same enrollments as us. Gibson County, Westview, Union City, and Huntingdon is a tough district, with Dyersburg probably being added after the numbers come in. Plus, their substate is Loretto or Summertown. Very good girl's teams!!!!

Dyersburg will more than likely be added to the Gibson County & Westview district. That will be the hardest district in girl's basketball in the state without a doubt.

I think there will be some changes to several districts. If the numbers stay close to where they were a few years ago schools like JCM, Liberty, and McNairy may fall to AA. Bolivar may move up to AAA also. So, there could be some new faces to some of the districts. It will be interesting to see where some of the enrollments fall when they come out in September.

If JCM and Liberty move to AA, one possible district will consist of Adamsville, Bolivar, Madison, JCM, and Liberty. Scotts Hill and Riverside will go north and east with Camden. That geography works better in my opinion, but who knows. Memphis will keep their three districts I think. We played them this year and there were no cancellations or postponements. We will know more when the numbers come out next month.