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same. so sick of this. it seems like at least half of the games that I really care about something happens with the feed.

Been a lot of talk about bad shooting because the gym is so big and they’re not used to it. In years past they’d play the semi there and shoot better in the final

Martins Mill wins the 2A-D2 championship 55-43! The score doesn’t really tell the tale of how close this game was. MM went on a run early fourth and Lipan started fouling early which ballooned the score a bit

51-39 with 1:15 left

Lipan’s stud Gaylor is 3/16 from the field

Lipan starting to foul. MM up 49-37 with 2:00 left

MM up 45-37 with 3:43 to go

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?