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'briank', It looks like a two part question post to me, I was focusing on the 2nd part as it reads here below: "Also, what are your predictions for the highest finish by any team from Tennessee. Name the team,age group and their final ranking." Sorry for the irritation...

11U FCA, TN Express, and TN Xtreme all finished in top 25 last year and based on the pool draws I think one of these 3 will be the highest finisher for Tennessee again this year.

Just one last explaination...I believe the only way your pool turned out the way it did is that every pool has a last years top 16 team seed in it, which means the Oklahoma Select did two things, first they finished tied for #7 last year which gave their State a number 7 seed. Second, they must have won their State this year in order to keep their #7 seed. As for the Georgia Pistols, they finished tied for #5 last year to give their State a #5 seed, however, they must have not won their State this year and someone else from Georgia received the #5 Seed and was placed in another pool with 3 un-seeded teams......but the bad news is, this still doesn't change the fact that they were good enough to finish tied for #5 last year. It looks to me like AAU should consider these situations and have some type of seed order beyond #16 and any team which did not keep their seed through their State should still have a seed factored in based on that they were a top 16 team last year. 'sport_dad', I wasn't trying to be a Trotter Basher, I thought the girls held teams like TN Express and FCA to close margins in Murfreesboro and should be commended even though they didn't win. I have the up most respect for the Trotter organization and hope you have a wonderful outcome in Springfield.

tnt_express, I don't think you can judge them by the Murfreesboro torunament because even if you leave the pick ups out of the picture, they didn't have one of their core players there and they had a different coach. I also haven't seen the guard they picked up from the Raiders, so it's not really fair for me answer this one. The two questions I would like to know, is which coach is taking them to Springfield and will all the girls be going?

1) Find a good club in your area and contact the President.....where in Middle TN do you live in (closest town/city), some of us here on coachT may be able to direct you to the nearest clubs? 2) Normally about the time school ball is ending.....end of Jan/early Feb. 3) You might contact the TN State AAU Commissioner Peanut Cummings - ph. (423) 566-5167 or email peanut@tngirlsbasketball.com

The 11U Nationals in Springfield, MO starting this weekend.

In my opinion, the Trotters have one of the toughest pool battles of all the Tennessee teams going. Not only are they in the pool with last years #7 Oklahoma Select, they are also sharing the pool with last years #5 Georgia Pistols. They will most likely have to beat one of these teams to even advance to the Championship bracket. Looks like the Trotters did not receive much reward for being our State Runner-up.

I believe the Trotters were a couple of girls short in Murfreesboro. The Sliverdecker girl was not there and she has scored up to a third of their points in some games. One of the pick-ups from the Raiders was not there either. And correct me if I'm wrong, but the coach in Murfreesboro was not the same guy who coached them in State?

11U Tournament Results Friday TN Trotters 34 TN Express 39 Saturday Memphis Glory 27 FCA Lady Eagles 33 TN Trotters 47 Memphis Glory 40 TN Express 46 FCA Lady Eagles 31 TN Express 43 Memphis Glory 38 FCA Lady Eagles 54 TN Trotters 49 Bracket Play Sunday Memphis Glory did not stay for Sunday play. FCA Lady Eagles 31 TN Trotters 26 Championship Game Sunday TN Express 40 FCA Lady Eagles 42 The 2 time defending State Champs FCA had been beaten by the Express in pool play by 15pts. Express led the whole championship game until about 2 minutes to go and FCA Lady Eagles took the lead and held on for a 2pt. win. One other note: National Pools are out as of yesterday on the AAU website. I saw all the Tennessee Teams except for the Pearls and Cookeville Ladies....what happened that they are not going?

Anyone know pool teams or have brackets yet?

Not just what teams, but does anyone know where to get a copy of brackets?

I agree with 'ptguard12' in the following quote from another thread: "In the 11U, either the FCA Lady Eagles, Tennessee Xtreme, Tennessee Lady Trotters, or Tennessee Express (they did it last year) will finish in the Top 16".

11u - just read in another thread that TN Express picked up 2 girls from the Pearls and Lady Trotters picked up 3, 2 of which are from the TN Raiders. I think these two teams chances just got a lot better in Nationals, especially TN Express's addition of the guard #2 from the Pearls.

Why are the Pearls not going to Nationals? I have never understood why teams go as far to qualify, then back out of going. If they would have decided that by the time they made it to State, it would have allowed another team from Tennessee the opportunity to experience a National Tournament???

For review, the following teams from Tennessee are qualified for Nationals in 11u: FCA Lady Eagles Lady Trotters TN Xtreme Memphis Lady Elite/Lady Tigers TN Pearls Cookeville Ladies TN Express TN Storm Did I leave anyone out? Is everyone going?