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Last nights battle of the titans between defending 6A champ Duncanville and #1 ranked Waxahachie took place in Waxahachie’s own gym. D’ville coach David Peavy and Wax coach Greg Gober flipped a coin to decide who would host the regional final, with Waxahachie obviously winning that toss. Unfortunately for the Indians, it wasn’t enough as Duncanville advanced to the state semifinals for the 3rd straight year. It got me to thinking - although this is highly unusual it isn’t unprecedented. The Mojo of Odessa Permian used to love flipping for home or home in the football playoffs. It is an interesting concept vs two teams fan bases traveling to Houston area (as happens here occasionally). Peavy’s logic is kids today are used to playing in gym’s all over the country so there’s no such thing as home court advantage. I suppose as long as tickets are equally divided (and your kids are high level players like D’ville - I.e., playing all over in summers), he may be right. Certainly last night he was.

Exactly. Nijal played great but Toe was doing whatever he wanted before he blew that knee. Kimball had no answer for him. That was a huge blow to the team’s psyche when he went down.

Idk - they had the toughest opponent in the regional final and led by almost 20 going into the 4th quarter. And they puked it up. You could have put them 1 or 2 but they were definitely one of the top teams in the state. Unfortunately for them, they picked a bad time to lay an egg.

No one can convince me the Jags wouldn’t have won if Toe doesn’t go down...

I know. That’s why I’m saying the semifinal will be the de facto championship game. Best two teams left playing squaring off.

I agree. That’s just what happens sometimes when you have 4 starters who are underclassmen. Again, this Huffman team reminds me a lot of that Big Sandy team from several years ago. That would have been a heckuva game. And I agree. They have a good shot at winning one more. The stars have aligned for Class 4A region 3 this year. Region 1 and 2 are in another class though. If Argyle wins, and Huffman wins, could be a good game. Huffman plays a lot like Argyle, Argyle just does it better IMO.

Shooting 2 for 28 from 3 pt land and being in the game in the last minute is crazy in any game. To do so in the regional final is pretty much unfathomable.

State championship game.

THIS! Any team that shoots 2 for 28 in a regional final you would expect them to get run out of the gym. And most years, in most regions, they would. If they had gone 2/28 against Yates they would have lost by 20-30.

Blow Sand Blow! I think (and hope) United takes it as well. My only concern was a veteran Pg like Lancaster’s Taylor giving them fits. Feel a lot better with them out. I like the Wolves against Kimball or Amarillo.

One thing about the Metroplex, they always have a plan B, and sometimes a plan C. Usually at LEAST 2 teams there perfectly capable of winning it all.

Kimball wins 77-75 in OT!

Correct and one of their other 2 losses was to 6A #1 Waxahachie by 9 (who is getting beaten soundly by Duncanville right now).

Kimball and Lancaster tied at 64 with 5 seconds left.

Like I said, you are a great addition to this board. But no one, and I mean NO ONE, is buying that statement! 😂😉

I will say that the winner here gets Amarillo and that’s no cake walk either. Sandies perfectly capable of pulling an upset.

Lancaster blew it open in the 3rd Quarter to take an 18 pt lead. Now it’s down to 1 with a minute and change left.

Kimball trying to claw their way back in the 4th against Lancaster.

It truly is amazing the game came down to the end as poorly as they shot it. Congrats to the Falcons though.

Yeah need one more win and then we might get the clash of the titans the state has been waiting to see.

Yeah that lineup starting 2 freshmen and 2 sophomores, hard to believe they got as far as they did. This was definitely the year to give everyone else a chance. And they almost took that away. Great season Tigers! The Region 1 vs Region 2 game should be the de facto state championship game.

Really bad.

Nobody is beating BU until SA but BU. They are just too talented.

My thought exactly. Huffman was starting to fold under pressure, coughing that thing up like it’s hot. Tigers need more from seniors than air ball 3 and turnover off back to back steals too. Get to the cup more and stop settling for first jumper you see.

There have only been 4 coaches in the history of Lamar Basketball (since the junior college days) who have had a career winning record. Jack Martin, Billy Stubbs, Pat Foster, and Tic Price. Lamar didn’t get the invite to join the WAC with SFA, Sam Houston, and Abilene because of their football program. Tic is well respected among the NCAA coaching fraternity for a reason. I do agree however with points made about some of the other programs, most notably baseball. Lamar should never be a doormat there.