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Martins Mill on a big run. Up 42-34 with 6:00 left in the game

Martins Mill up 31-29 with 3:00 to go in the 3rd

Lipan has won the last two 2A championships, were runners up the year before that, and semifinalists the year before that.

These two teams have a total of 3 seniors (two starters) combined. High probability they’re back again next year.

Martins Mill up 23-20 at the half.

21-20, MM holding for last shot

Martins mill with a 7-0 run over 30 seconds, ended by a 3 by lipan. 21-17 MM with 3:30 left in the half

11-11 after 1.

2A worked out better than 1A. You have #1 vs #2 in one championship, and a couple of lower ranked teams that found a way to make it in the 2nd bracket in #15 Hearne (26-5) and unranked (not sure why) Meyer, who’s 36-3.

Lipan off to a quick 7-0 start 3 minutes in

5:00 game is the 2A-D2 final we all deserved. #1 Martins Mill Vs #2 Lipan

Should be able to. Not playing in my thursday night poker game because i'm going to a (much more lucrative) friday night game tomorrow.

jinx, kinda

This game is actually pretty fun. Valley's superior size vs. Perrin-Whitt's superior guards. Game would be even closer if PW hadn't been unconscious from deep for most of the first half.

Courtside reporter just brought up something that i do think is a positive with having two tourneys per classification. Valley is in the state finals for the first time since 1983, and if I heard correctly, Perrin-Whitt for the first time since 1946? Pretty wild, and pretty awesome for both communities. It's unlikely that either team would be here if they just had one tourney. Maybe PW makes it, I'm not sure when they would've had to face and lose to Jayton.

I think the obvious answer (which has been said on here before), IF UIL wants to do split tourneys, is to have the other sports play in the same districts as football. This way the tourneys will be set up for the best teams in each district to succeed. It's more likely that the best teams will meet up around the final 8 and state semis and finals, unless there are upsets. The split division enrollment stuff create so much variance, and makes for weird matchups. Creating D1-D2 districts would fix most of this.

I don't disagree with you there. but less than a month ago Perrin-Whitt beat Bryson 53-49. Bryson beat #21 and #12 in the last week to get here. I think in general there's just a large discrepancy in 1A between the top handful of teams and everyone else. Jayton won their state semi in an unsplit playoff by 40 last year. I dunno. No arguing this is ugly, though.

how so?

i agree. they should've been top 20 at least, if not in the 10-15 range. not that you can tell from this result. I've never seen anything like this in a championship game. But I wouldn't have expected it between these two teams in a regular season game either.

I know people will come with more of the "split division caused the blowout" stuff, and I get it. But Bryson is 29-4 this year with two losses in district to #2 Whitt-Perrin (once by 4 points) and another loss to a 5A school. It's not like Bryson is some scrub that flubbed their way into 5 playoff wins to make it this far. They beat some ranked teams in the playoffs to get here as well.

brutal.

(-11) Duncanville vs. Bellaire Katy Jordan vs. Denton Guyer (-7) (-8) Beaumont West Brook vs. Birdville (-5) Fort Bend Marshall vs. Mansfield Summit Houston Washington vs. Dallas Kimball (-9) (-7) Houston Wheatley vs. Kennadale (-9) Tatum vs. Columbus (-19) Kountze vs. Paradise (-3) Hearne vs. Meyer Lipan vs. Martin's Mill (-9) (-6) Perrin-Whitt vs. Valley (-11) Jayton vs. Bryson

Kinda ironic that I accidentally stumbled across this thread today in the most unlikely way. I wasn't looking for anything to do with West Brook or Mike Thomas. That said, there's a lot of interesting back and forth on the thread, and due to recent events I read through it all. I know the other coaches named in the thread would've found success with this talented team, but pretty much every one of them has struggled in their new positions elsewhere to varying degrees. I'm not saying they aren't good coaches, but it's safe to say that Mike T has shown everyone at this point that he was the best man for the job.

Sitting under a republican mandate, watching your programs, insane woke agendas and money pit projects get taken away... this sort of thing is all y'all have left. It's funny watching it play out in the media, and on here as well.

As a somewhat moderate conservative I had real hopes that the dems would take a lesson from this last election cycle and move back to the middle some. Not because I want to vote for them, but because with the two parties so polarized it's difficult to get a lot of things done. But I guess this is the next best thing. If everyone is doing okay at the end of 4 years Vance will cakewalk to victory in the next election. Maybe then the libs will figure out where they went wrong, I dunno.