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Madison Hayes didn't graduate? And Bradley will win district again and compete for state title. When do schools usually hang banners, 1st home game of season cause Bradley gets 2 this year

Several new head coaches going into next season, I didn't expect coach cretton to retire so early from walker valley but they are getting a great coach in soddy daisy old coach and a assistant in a former Bradley standout in kaylan withrow. I expect walker valley to actually compete this year and finish 2nd or 3rd in district so all three Bradley county teams will probably finish in top 4 in district. I'd pick McMinn 3rd then Cleveland 4th. Cleveland is rebuilding so it will be a tough season for them, walker valley and McMinn will both compete to 2nd. Bradley is the Alabama of aaa girls basketball, they don't rebuild they just reload lol. I'd expect them to get picked to either repeat or at least make it back to state but another team from district 4 could surprise. East Hamilton won't be as good without Madison Hayes, of course they said same thi mg about Bradley last year without Howard So well see.. So my early prediction for district 5 is Bradley, McMinn, walker valley, Cleveland, East Hamilton, soddy daisy and ooltewah. District 7 got a shakeup too with couple coaches retiring or going elsewhere like Jennifer grsndstaff

Several new head coaches going into next season, I didn't expect coach cretton to retire so early from walker valley but they are getting a great coach in soddy daisy old coach and a assistant in a former Bradley standout in kaylan withrow. I expect walker valley to actually compete this year and finish 2nd in district so all three Bradley county teams will probably finish in top 4 in district. I'd pick McMinn 3rd then Cleveland 4th. Cleveland is rebuilding so it will be a tough season for them, walker valley and McMinn will both compete to 2nd. Bradley is the Alabama of aaa girls basketball, they don't rebuild they just reload lol. I'd expect them to get picked to either repeat or at least make it back to state but another team from district 4 could surprise. East Hamilton won't be as good without Madison Hayes. So my early prediction for district 5 is Bradley, McMinn, walker valley, Cleveland, East Hamilton, soddy daisy and ooltewah. District 7 got a shakeup too with couple coaches retiring or going elsewhere like Jennifer grsndstaff

Go bears, 2 state championship teams, if Bradley can win 2 more baseball games in in same season, very rare considering all the schools they have nowdays. Riley black pitches great game, maybe the braves pick him up in the future. Lol

It took a state championship for them to finally get respect and a national m a x p r e p s top 25 ranking.

With a shot clock perhaps oak ridge wins since they would be likely forced Bradley to foul. But yeah the Riverdale Houston game was the best one till the Bradley Houston game

Oak ridge is better in talent and experience? Bradley has way better talent with deeper bench. Coaching goes to Bradley. Reuter has been coaching longer than Redman if u count his assistant with boys team. Experience they are about equal.

Wished he would've. I watched almost every game in th e aaa tournament and Bradley by far has best defense and it paid off obviously. Hannah hitting the 3 to e in surprised me. I thou gg t it would've been anybody else taking the shot. Blair trusted her enough. Blair or walker will likely get nominated miss basketball next year

Runner up?

Imo Bradley could compete on a national level, they did finish 5th overall in the Phoenix tournament over chrisymas, but obviously they are one of the top 50 teams in country

They coulf have the same class on same day instead of giving some teams extra day off. So thursday for single a quarters, friday for double a quarters, Saturday for triple a quarters on rotating basis for each class, Monday single semis, Tuesday double and wednesday triple, then championships in Thursday Friday Saturday. Gives every team same number of days off. Have boys during same time period but at Vanderbilt and alternate sites, Vanderbilt one year then mtsu the next etc. Or have east, middle, then West college having state to avoid giving teams that live within stones throw (district 7) from having essentially home court every year. Bradley and Houston playing at much is fine because thgat was east vs west but Riverdale has essentially been the home team every year. Th ats where the alternate location helps. Example if it woulkdve been riverdale and Houston in finale then have championship at Thompson coming, Riverdale and Bradley finale would be at say Memphis university. Or do best of three with each rep having home game and then 3rd game at neutral site within decent driving distance for fans, family, etc, and middle location between the 2 schools. Like today's game with Houston and Bradley is fine at might had it been Riverdale and Bradley have it somewhere like in Cookeville at Tennessee tech. . I wanted to be at the Bradley game this week cause I knew this team was special but couldnt. They use libscomb univetsity for the division 2 games so why couldnt they for the division 1. If they keep the current format they could do both university and still do 8 games, 4 boys 4 girls on same day for quarters. Or even with the just 6 games have every class play on Wednesday just at both colleges then use thursfasy as off day or start on Thursday with no off day. Then do boys same way week later. Doing both boys and girls on dame day would save gas for everyone, especially when a school has both boys and girls in tourney

The person thast said Bradley would allow more than 50 to Houston and said Blair wouldn't drive right. She did that several times and Houston only scored 44. The reason Bradley lost to hpouston last year was it was obvious Howard was getti ng the ball. Reuter rarely loses to th e same team 2 times, oak ridge has a great record against him because their coach, former bearettes, knows the system., he has yet to play Riverdale and maybe next year they can play each other in a tournament or have home and home schedule with region 4 district 7 teams. But holiday tournament with district 7 teams would be better. The trip to Phoenix helped them this year too I think.

Do you mean a week from the boy's playing their last game or a week from the end of the girl's tourney? Yes. 9-10 days for. Sectional to stay quarters is an eternity. The Bradley game started almost an hour later than later yesterday because for double ot game right before. You see what having 4 days off did to th for shooting? They played normal Bradley ball Friday and Saturday just let up on the aggr ession on defense Maybe have single a play on Tuesday double on Wednesday and triple on Thursday. Then semis finals on Friday Saturday and Sunday then finals on. On, tues, Wednesday. Have Boys and girls same class same day. Making th e boys wait over a week between games is just crazy.

They let them play physical all game so why call petty foul at end of game? Had walker not goit in foul trouble it wouldntve been that close. Nobody evervrespec6s great teams like Bradley. Just because they have a bunch of "no names" doesn't mean they can't win. Basketball is a team game and they have several players that can get the job done. Roberts, mayo, hughes, (great at lock down defense), Blair, walker great shooters, Lombard all around player. Their bench watches and learns from the starters. Expect great this us for years to come from Bradley.

Bradley proved you don't need great players (Howard, Hayes sisters, several other exsmples) to win champi9nships you just need great defense and good timing. Bradley proved that this year. Defense is always there offense won t be. Blue collar team wins it all.