2019 Ladies Classic in Greenevillle, TN

[Americal198]

Today's Greeneville Sun named the teams that will participate in this year's Andrew Johnson Bank Ladies Classic.

There will be nine local schools. North Greene, West Greene, South Greene, Greeneville and Chuckey-Doak. Other area schools will be Cocke County, Kingsport Dobyns- Bennett, Jefferson County and defending tournament champs, Oak Ridge. Other teams will be Archer, Georgia; Chattanooga East Hamilton; Lanier, Georgia; Parkersburg, West Virginia; Rockcastle, Kentucky; Shelby Valley, Kentucky. The two teams I am especially looking forward to seeing will be Meigs County and Upperman. The latter two, and East Hamilton should be fun to watch. I've read much in this forum about those three.

[BP4138]

This tournament will be loaded for he most part. There are numerous state tournament teams, two state champions, seven players in top 200 of their respective class, numerous girls being recruited heavily and 15 teams of the 18 that won 18 games or more last year. It will be a totally new format and will be a five day event instead of four.

[Dadof2]

Where are most the games played at?

[Americal198]

13 hours ago, Dadof2 said:

Where are most the games played at?

Hal Henard School Gymnasium. Greeneville HS plays their basketball in this facility. It holds a large crowd. Located a couple of miles from downtown.

If you are staying over, there are plenty of places for lodging, but I would recommend The General Morgan Inn in downtown Greeneville. It's a one-of-a- kind  place that was the result of a major restoration of historic "railroad" hotels. There's a restaurant and bar located there and a very nice lobby and small shops. The downtown has many historic places of interest like President Andrew Johnson's two homes and tailor shop. And the Dickson-Williams mansion, located behind the hotel. All this is within walking distance from where you would be staying. Unless you plan on watching basketball for ten hours a day, you will have plenty of downtime to sight see without getting into a car.

Edited July 3, 2019 by Americal198
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[Dadof2]

2 hours ago, Americal198 said:

Hal Henard School Gymnasium. Greeneville HS plays their basketball in this facility. It holds a large crowd. Located a couple of miles from downtown.

If you are staying over, there are plenty of places for lodging, but I would recommend The General Morgan Inn in downtown Greeneville. It's a one-of-a- kind  place that was the result of a major restoration of historic "railroad" hotels. There's a restaurant and bar located there and a very nice lobby and small shops. The downtown has many historic places of interest like President Andrew Johnson's two homes and tailor shop. And the Dickson-Williams mansion, located behind the hotel. All this is within walking distance from where you would be staying. Unless you plan on watching basketball for ten hours a day, you will have plenty of downtime to sight see without getting into a car.

Thanks 

[BP4138]

Here is some information on some of the teams coming into this years Classic.

Ladies Classic Team Notes

 

Parkersburg WV Back to Back AAA State Champions

 3 players being recruited 

Dacula Ga Final 8 in Georgia in 6A.

They have three big time D1 Recruits one Senior PG Nyla Moore 2020 class being recruited by Davidson, Wofford, UNC Asheville and others. PF Keyanna Gibbs also a 2020 being recruited by UNC Asheville and OVC Schools. 2022 Super Soph Lazaria Spearman already has multiple Power Five offers from FSU, GT, Ole Miss, Florida, Louisville, Miami and South Carolina.

Archer Ga Sweet 16 in 7A last year. 

They have two rising 2021 players that's getting plenty of attention from several schools including D1. Both are top 250 players in the 2021 Class.. They are Cazzie Nelson 5’6 PG and Maya Jackson 6’1 PF.

Lanier Ga 2019 6A State Champs

Multiple players getting attention led by 3 D1 Recruits and have a front line of 6'3, 6'3, 6'4

Rockcastle KY finished 20-12 Lost in Region Finals.

Got two good prospects led by 2021 5'10 G/F Casey Coleman and 2020 5'10 PG Kenzie Himes. Both are receiving interest from all levels of basketball.

East Hamilton 23-11 made it to Sub State

 Madison Hayes #24 in ESPN top 50 2020 class. Multiple Power 5 offers.  2020 class Dezah Lacy D1 offers from Austin Peay, Jacksonville State, Alabama A&M,. 2020 class Eliziah Laboo multiple Offers from D2, NAIA and Juco

Upperman 2017, 2018 AA State Champs

Reagan Hurst 5’11 guard junior. She was 1st team all district as a sophomore. Was all state tournament team as a freshman. She has talked to TTU, UTC , UTM, Dayton , Furman & Wofford.
Brooklyn Crouch 5’6 sophomore. She was freshman of the year last year. 1st team all district as freshman and on the defensive team in our district.
She has also spoke with several schools also. TTU , UTC, Dayton.
Torie Brooks. 5’6 junior. Was 2nd team all conference. All state tournament team as a freshman. Bryan college has also showed interest in her.

Ashland Mcclellan 6’0 senior. Has had a lot of interest from Bryan College.

 

Oak Ridge 33-2 AAA Final Four

Bri Dunbar 5’6 PG Being Recruited by King, Milligan, Bryan, Arkansas Tech, USC Upstate and LMU

Khamari Mitchell-Steen  5’10 SG has interest from Multiple D1 schools including UTC, Radford, TN Tech, UAB, UNC Asheville and Southern Illinois

[Americal198]

5 hours ago, BP4138 said:

Here is some information on some of the teams coming into this years Classic.

Ladies Classic Team Notes

 

 

 

Parkersburg WV Back to Back AAA State Champions

 

 3 players being recruited 

 

Dacula Ga Final 8 in Georgia in 6A.

 

They have three big time D1 Recruits one Senior PG Nyla Moore 2020 class being recruited by Davidson, Wofford, UNC Asheville and others. PF Keyanna Gibbs also a 2020 being recruited by UNC Asheville and OVC Schools. 2022 Super Soph Lazaria Spearman already has multiple Power Five offers from FSU, GT, Ole Miss, Florida, Louisville, Miami and South Carolina.

 

Archer Ga Sweet 16 in 7A last year. 

 

They have two rising 2021 players that's getting plenty of attention from several schools including D1. Both are top 250 players in the 2021 Class.. They are Cazzie Nelson 5’6 PG and Maya Jackson 6’1 PF.

 

Lanier Ga 2019 6A State Champs

 

Multiple players getting attention led by 3 D1 Recruits and have a front line of 6'3, 6'3, 6'4

 

Rockcastle KY finished 20-12 Lost in Region Finals.

 

Got two good prospects led by 2021 5'10 G/F Casey Coleman and 2020 5'10 PG Kenzie Himes. Both are receiving interest from all levels of basketball.

 

East Hamilton 23-11 made it to Sub State

 

 Madison Hayes #24 in ESPN top 50 2020 class. Multiple Power 5 offers.  2020 class Dezah Lacy D1 offers from Austin Peay, Jacksonville State, Alabama A&M,. 2020 class Eliziah Laboo multiple Offers from D2, NAIA and Juco

 

Upperman 2017, 2018 AA State Champs

 

Reagan Hurst 5’11 guard junior. She was 1st team all district as a sophomore. Was all state tournament team as a freshman. She has talked to TTU, UTC , UTM, Dayton , Furman & Wofford.
Brooklyn Crouch 5’6 sophomore. She was freshman of the year last year. 1st team all district as freshman and on the defensive team in our district.
She has also spoke with several schools also. TTU , UTC, Dayton.
Torie Brooks. 5’6 junior. Was 2nd team all conference. All state tournament team as a freshman. Bryan college has also showed interest in her.

Ashland Mcclellan 6’0 senior. Has had a lot of interest from Bryan College.

 

 

 

Oak Ridge 33-2 AAA Final Four

 

Bri Dunbar 5’6 PG Being Recruited by King, Milligan, Bryan, Arkansas Tech, USC Upstate and LMU

 

Khamari Mitchell-Steen  5’10 SG has interest from Multiple D1 schools including UTC, Radford, TN Tech, UAB, UNC Asheville and Southern Illinois

 

Interesting! Thanks for the research and posting it. I'm looking forward to this tournament and, most likely, will attend more games than usual.

[Dadof2]

The bracket came out today, some good first round matchups.

East Hamilton (Winner) vs Jefferson Co

Lanier (Winner) vs Chuckey-Doak

Upperman (Winner) vs Greeneville 

Archer (Winner) vs North Greene

Oak Ridge (Winner) vs Cocke Co

Dacula vs Morristown West (Winner)

Meigs Co (Winner) vs South Greene 

West Greene vs Dobyns Bennett Winner)

I took a shot at the first round winners.

[Americal198]

9 hours ago, Dadof2 said:

The bracket came out today, some good first round matchups.

East Hamilton (Winner) vs Jefferson Co

Lanier (Winner) vs Chuckey-Doak

Upperman (Winner) vs Greeneville 

Archer (Winner) vs North Greene

Oak Ridge (Winner) vs Cocke Co

Dacula vs Morristown West (Winner)

Meigs Co (Winner) vs South Greene 

West Greene vs Dobyns Bennett Winner)

I took a shot at the first round winners.

You beat me to it.

[Americal198]

[Americal198]

I'm looking forward to seeing this year's editions of Meigs and Upperman. South Greene lost three senior starters including Miss Basketball finalist, Braelyn Wykle, so Meigs may exact revenge against SG for the loss in volleyball. I'm not sure how intact Meigs is from last year.

Greeneville also lost several seniors and Morristown West graduated Blayr Shultz.

Win or lose, this tournament is the highlight of girl's basketball in this area. The experience and the competition gets them ready for their different state tourneys.

[Dadof2]

5 hours ago, Americal198 said:

I'm looking forward to seeing this year's editions of Meigs and Upperman. South Greene lost three senior starters including Miss Basketball finalist, Braelyn Wykle, so Meigs may exact revenge against SG for the loss in volleyball. I'm not sure how intact Meigs is from last year.

Greeneville also lost several seniors and Morristown West graduated Blayr Shultz.

Win or lose, this tournament is the highlight of girl's basketball in this area. The experience and the competition gets them ready for their different state tourneys.

Meigs returns everyone, they have two good seniors and a really strong junior class.