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In the big three sports, our little SETX district (24-4A/9-4A) has had a team in the championship game in 4 out of 5 championships this year and last, with one championship. Pretty amazing. Now let's make it 5 out of 6. (Special thanks to the Mustangs for making it in 3 out of 5).

Lincoln team is young too. Kortrijk Miles, who very much looked like the best player on the floor, is a junior. He's the younger brother of Keaton Miles who plays for Arkansas after transferring from West Virginia.

Missed layups and free throws have been a killer - have to convert easy points. Great season Tigers. Something tells me these two will meet again.

Silsbee pressure really getting to Lincoln now. 2 point game

3 pt play by Lincoln ends a 9-0 Silsbee run. 63-54 Dallas after 3.

Lincoln lighting up the zone 37-24 3 minutes left in half.

Didn't like that foul call on Mackey. Should have been a 3 pt play. Defender too deep.

Miles kid from Lincoln is a player.

Going to be a track meet. Good grief we have to have wide open layups though.

11-11 3:34 left in 1st.

I wondered why Dontre was upset there. Replay showed the kid who got called for blocking gave him a little kick.

Silsbee strikes first, but the pace is super fast. Advantage Silsbee IMO.

BRING IT HOME TIGERS!!!!

That's where we disagree. A lot of these districts are 5 and 6 team districts. So a game you played 4 or 5 weeks before the playoffs matters. Kids need to be put in the pressure cooker and have to perform. 50 point beatdowns don't give you that experience. It's situational experience that can benefit the team in the long run. I really believe if WOS (and Silsbee in basketball) had never been challenged, they don't make the runs they did. Plus, any coach worth his salt will tell you every game is an opportunity to get better. The more you are challenged, the bigger the opportunity. But, as I say, in college football, playing in a tough conference, there is little incentive to beef up the schedule. Especially when the main goal is based upon polling where win-loss records are key. That is why you see the Saban's scheduling mostly cupcakes. In college basketball, where the RPI is the gospel, not so much.

Please don't derail a state championship thread with your trolling. To put it as nicely as I can, no one cares. Appreciate your cooperation in advance.

Lancaster finishes the season 37-2 I believe. Only two losses were back to back. Lost to Atascocita in the McDonald's tournament championship and to Bush the following week.

I heard it said the other day that if the nominations were to hold, Trump would be the most disliked candidate to be nominated for POTUS and Hillary would be second (I assume since they've kept track of these things). Interestingly, the candidate in the race who is most liked on either side is Bernie Sanders. I guess the point being that "likability" may be pretty far down the totem pole these days.

Your argument is predicated on having a tough district. With WOS, they schedule as tough as they can in predistrict to try and get some real competition that will get them battle tested for the playoffs. Then they go a month playing patsies. Same with Silsbee in basketball. Sigler tries to find the best of the best to play (like with WOS, he gets some takers and some passers) because he knows he gets two games in a couple of months (HJ) where his team is going to even be remotely challenged. And I would say like Saban, it's kind of hard to argue with their results. But if a given district is a juggernaut, then your schedule the Sisters of the Poor makes more sense...

Should be a good one. Maybe the two best teams in the state.

I believe that's the old Sam Houston. Forget why they changed their name.

You can't blame them. They were on a run and their fans were excited. I am guessing they were well represented because Levelland loves its basketball and they normally travel really well. But they had no idea what they had coming at em. They were going to get smoked no matter which team they drew. They just happened to catch the really short straw for the extra pain.

Gotcha

Silsbee is on the Fox Sports Southwest Auxiliary channel which is 676-1. The EC game is on the regular FSSW channel. At least on directv.

According the UIL website, only the 2A and 5A games will be on that channel. The others are Fox Sports.

Directv customers: East Chambers is on 676. Silsbee will be on 676-1.