Anyone know why there are 3 out of state teams in the Pink and White while the Blue and Gold is all local teams? I'd prefer the P & W to be all local teams as well.
I'll go ahead and predict, as someone else did above, that Mt Vernon wins the consolation on the Pink side. They will lose to Northside and then win the remaining games.
Glendale has the best shot at pulling off the first round upset over Carthage. Lebanon could possibly give Clever fits. Mt Vernon, Bolivar and Lebanon are the best unseeded teams on the Pink side IMO
As far as the White goes... Camdenton has a shot at knocking off #6 seed Branson in the first round.
Other games that might be close are Thayer vs Central and Skyline vs Rogersville. I still think the seeded teams Thayer and Skyline win those games.
Spokane won't stand a chance against Republic IMO. Republic's guards are quicker and faster than Spokane's are and that will be the difference.
As much as I'd love to pick a local team to win either side, I don't see it happening. Northside wins the Pink and Classen likely wins the White.
If Strafford can somehow win the White, they may not lose another game this season. They have three really good teams to get through - Republic, Ozark, and Classen, assuming they respectively win out.
Well Here's what I saw today...
Mt Vernon was in the game with Northside until about midway through the second quarter, which was pretty darned impressive. Stokes is really, really good. She scored 34 of Mt Vernon's 40 points. Northside is huge and Mt Vernon too small and scrawny to prevent them from killing them inside and on rebounds. No one but Stokes could do anything against that defense, but Stokes was downright amazing today. If anyone denies that she's not one of the five best players in southwest Missouri, I'll have that debate. But Northside won by 30 in this game.
Camdenton did hang with Branson in - as I said above in a previous post - a slop fest of a game. Neither team ran really much of any offense, both teams pressed and it basically looked like a bunch of headless chickens running around out there. Branson won 59-50.
Central hung with Thayer but Thayer is just a smart, well coached team and they won 49-39.
Glendale was down 28-8 at half time to Carthage but came back to make it somewhat interesting, ultimately losing 50-38
Clever was up 33-26 over Lebanon but a 9-0 run to start the third quarter turned into Clever out scoring them for the quarter 27-9 and lead by as much as 25-ish. They win 71-53 and play Nixa tomorrow, who destroyed Hillcrest.
Skyline handled Rogersville pretty easily as it turned out, winning 57-34. They go against Ozark tomorrow, who pummeled Marshfield 53-18.
A couple of surprises were Catholic hanging with Willard and only losing 62-50 in a game that was closer than that. And Bolivar only lost by 5 to Blue Eye, 61-56.
There were no upsets today. All of the seeded teams won. many in convincing fashion
So in the Pink on the winners side tomorrow:
#1 Northside vs #8 Carthage
#2 West Plains vs #7 Willard
#3 Nixa vs #6 Clever
#4 Kickapoo vs #5 Blue Eye
White:
#1 Classen vs #8 Thayer
#2 Ozark vs #7 Skyline
#3 Strafford vs #6 Republic
#4 Melbourne vs #5 Branson
What teams have the best chances of pulling off the upsets?
