JimThorpe

True. And Raiders and Lumberjacks (axes? OUCH). And if we dare, Indians and Highlanders and Farmers and Punchers and even Plowboys. One that could be even more scary than a Tiger is the Itasca Wampus Cat. The illusive and ever deadly wampus cat stalks the prairies south of the Metroplex. The Falcons have us in one attribute. They are the fastest animal. 240mph in a dive. So I'm pretty sure that keeping them in level flight is a key component Coach Sig's game plan.

True. That's why the Wharton game was a little closer. It was Tigers vs. Tigers. I was just thinking, humans are the most dangerous mammals by far. Humans kill more mammals than all the other mammals put together. Humans even kill more humans than all the other mammals put together. It's interesting that none of our high schools have the human as a mascot. The Calamityville High Humans. Scary.

And I'll go further. If Shan Gilder gets another dunk the Tigers will definitely win the game.

Silsbee is playing well right now, clearly above their "unranked" status. The Tigers played better than Huffman last night. Connolly, ranked 22, is at least a little better team than unranked Carthage. Witness Connally's 17 pt. win over 14th ranked Austin LBJ. Silsbee had a rough first half but went in with a lead and controlled the game in the second half comfortably enough empty the bench at the 2 min mark. On the other hand Huffman went in trailing by 1. They fought back into the lead in the 3rd but it was never comfortable and at the 2 min mark the game was still in question. The thing that gives me pause is Huffman's 34 point blowout of Lumberton, doubling the Raiders score. There were no third round blowouts quite like that, even among the top 5 against unranked opponents.

Go to the Huff Maxpreps page. Tons of video. Probably have tonight's highlights by noon tomorrow. Check out the Lumberton game. It was scary. Lumberton beat us in our gym back in Feb. Well, Huff handled the Raiders with apparent ease. Lumberton was never in the game. That's Huff at their best. Tonight was Huff at their worst. If they play us like they did Carthage we're headed to state. Clearly they were looking ahead to the Region final.

You called it! No swag! Now, since you're our unquestioned authority on swag. How about Huffman? Any swag there?

I don't know they seemed uncharacteristically ragged in the first half and went in trailing. Everybody knew what was going to happen in the end. Huffman would take the lead back and keep it. But the game was still in question right up to the last 2 minutes. Being the last ranked team in the Region Huffman has to be considered the favorite. But go to Silsbee's Maxpreps page and check out the highlights of the Yates game. Silsbee took down the 2nd ranked team by 15 points scoring 99. The Falcons haven't scored quite that many points all year against anybody. I'd say the Tigers have a good chance.

And the rebounding was much better. Maybe that's the secret - I quit worrying about it and then it wasn't so bad. In fact WE were getting the put backs.

Silsbee will always be outrebounded. I don't know. Seems like there's not much point in even talking about it. Can you imagine how many 10's of thousands of times the coaches have pleaded, begged yelled, yes... even used questionable language (heaven forbid). I guess a 2 point lead is better than a kick in the head.

Silsbee by 4, 70 - 66

Huffman by 20.

Rebounding. I'm sure the kids know better than we do, they've heard it often enough. I'm sure it's a continuing theme from the coaches. And they know that they could have dispatched Wharton a deal sooner if they could have prevented some of those second and third chance put backs in the second half. A lot of the time it's 5 guards on the floor which is a tough thing for rebounding. They've just got to dig deep and find it.

Okay men. It's downhill from here. You can collapse after 8 more minutes of play. Wait. The regional tourney doesn't start tomorrow does it? Or is it later tonight?

Tired fouls.

Barely hanging on. Dig deep.

I'm wondering if it's a problem between NFHS and Texan Live. You can buy it from Texan. I don't mind doing that but not if it's delayed there.

Is anybody watching on the Texan Live network directly? I'm on the NFHS.

While we're waiting.... patiently.... I watched the second half of the Argyle game. Not a bad game.

Mine also says "Please check back soon." Don't worry.

Wharton has to be pumped though. Naturally they, like everybody left in Region 3, feel they have a much better chance getting to San Antonio. My biased opinion is that in actuality they have a WORSE chance. But we'll see.

I think it's the same thing. It was renamed a while back.

At the Fertitta Center?

I know what Coach Wise is thinking about now.... "Oh brother, here we go again."

Something you said struck me. "....led by their 2 freshmen...." Wow. Deja vu all over again.

Especially when there's a young team involved finding who are just out who they are. They don't know that they are supposed to lose.