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just b/c they were undefeated dont mean they won the national championship.  Many teams have been undefeated and not been national champs

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Bradley Central was never #1 at the end of a season in the final national USA Today poll. Shelbyville is the only Tennessee team to be #1 at the end of the season (twice). They went undefeated for three seasons - 1989 - 1991. They were crowned #1 in 1989 and 1991 and placed #2 at the end-of-season 1990 rankings to Christ The King. This was probably an anomaly, as Shelbyville trounced CTK in Shelbyville when they visited Tennessee in 1991. Shelbyville deserved the national title all three years. The next year, they began the 91/92 season nationally ranked #1, lost their first game to a quality team from Pennsylvania, struggled a bit the rest of the season; but still won the state championship and placed #10 in the final USA Today poll even with four losses. Overall, quite a run, and it helped put Tennessee Girls basketball on the national map.

 

I fully believe Mt. Juliet is a national top 5 team this year, and it owes Shelbyville some credit for getting them the national respect they deserve.

 

USA Today has always been a strong Shelbyville advocate, ranking Insell as the best coach in the state and the great gym in Shelbyville ("Rick's Grill", which is only as large as it is to accomodate the crowds the Eaglettes have nurtured over the years during Insell's reign) was ranked last year as one of the top ten gyms in the country for watching girl's high school basketball. Alas, like the Atlanta Braves, the home town has become so accustomed to winning, that their fans and crowds are not as rabid or as large as they were in the late '80s and early '90s.

 

Heck, Shelbyville was ranked #11 this season in a pre-season poll in one of the national polls, even though it had one of its two poorest teams in the last decade. That should have never happened, as PlayDay demonstrated the Eaglettes were one of the poorer teams in the state at the beginning of the season - rather than one of the top 16, as they finished.

 

Insell gets hounded on these posts, and gaining 10 Gold Balls is an incredible tribute to his legacy; but he adds to his "best coach in the state" reputation for almost taking both of those poorly-talented teams in the last ten years to the state Elite 8. People love to hate Shelbyville, as they would any other program with such a record. Fortumately, when you've been at the top for so long, the fans get used to the taunts from rival posters.

 

All the teams at state AAA this year are much better than Shelbyville...but don't lose sight of the Eaglettes in your rear-view mirror over the next three years!

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Snoring................... :):)

 

I just don't know where we'd be. Would there be a tournament in Murfreesboro? Would there even be girls basketball in Tennessee? I just am so grateful, Thank you, thank you Shelbyville?

 

Oh, tickets are available at the door. thumb

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