We need a thread to catch scores and dish about our favorite teams:
BASKETBALL 2A 7 West
Blevins
Caddo Hills
Cutter Morning Star
Foreman
Magnet Cove
Mountain Pine
Murfreesboro
Poyen
Who you got? Who's up/down this year?
What's Magnet Cove like this year?
Blevins boys are 9-1 this year
Blevins is the team to beat in this conference in my opinion. Everybody back and only 1 loss so far on the season. Mountain Pine, Cutter, and Foreman all should have good teams, as well. Mountain Pine has started the season strong.
Not to say Blevins isn't good, but they have played a soft schedule to start the year. They are 1-1 against quality teams.
Quote from: Ba$ketballFan54321 on November 19, 2017, 04:20:04 pm
Blevins is the team to beat in this conference in my opinion. Everybody back and only 1 loss so far on the season. Mountain Pine, Cutter, and Foreman all should have good teams, as well. Mountain Pine has started the season strong.
+1 on this
Quote from: PapaHog on November 19, 2017, 08:20:23 pm
Not to say Blevins isn't good, but they have played a soft schedule to start the year. They are 1-1 against quality teams.
They are blowing them out though lol
Quote from: BasketballFan2A on November 19, 2017, 10:48:22 pm
They are blowing them out though lol
Exactly. They've been taking care of business against teams that they're supposed to beat easily.
Blevins in boys and girls. Heard some chatter about the Murfreesboro girls being good but they always seem to underachieve imo.
What about the Smurfs boys team. They making any noise with their new coach?
Quote from: PapaHog on November 19, 2017, 02:36:54 pm
What's Magnet Cove like this year?
Watched MC play this week. Both girls and boys teams have new coaches and both teams have a ways to go before they will compete in this conference imo.
Mountain Pine is looking good early on. Blevins as well. Those two are looking like the early season favorites. Of course Foreman is still footballin' so don't know exactly what they've got yet. But I expect them to be solid too.
#30 for foreman graduated last year correct
big matchup tonight Mt Pine vs CMS @cms.
CMS soph's gonna have to grow up and bring it tonight.
Ok now that we have just completed a state championship in football... I will way in on basketball... yes #30 graduated and we lost some more good players but Foreman will still be very good team this year as well. I expect us to compete for a conference title.
Guess you will find out this week how good Foreman is. Finally basketball season for them.
Once we get the rust off foreman should be pretty good .. lost the hall kid but gain Carver those players are cut from the same cloth in my opinion .. obviously size and maturity would be the biggest difference.. return pretty much the rest of the scoreing !
England girls and boys beat Blevins tonight, girls by 8 boys 77-74
Mountain Pine (senior boys) is firing on all cylinders right now. Next up for the 12-1 Red Devils is Benton in the Spa City Shootout in Hot Springs.
Mountain Pine is the real deal!
I need to get some studs to marry some kids at my school too I guess.
I'm not taking anything away from pine, cutter , or Blevins but the gators got b-ball players playing football. Do not for one minute think this conference is already settled. The gators might not be the favorites but we was not in football either.
Wow
Foreman will most definitely factor in on deciding this conference.
Lol. Foreman will be a 3 or 4 seed in basketball. Once you come off that football high you'll see. I think everyone around knew Forman would be 1 or 2 in football. They are a quick athletic bunch, but Blevins and Mt. pine are better. Cutter is pretty close
We will find out soon enough Blevins is here at foreman after the break. Also looking at scores and seeing what is said the team to beat in this conference isn't Blevins it is pine. I will tell you this once foreman gets ten games in we will know but athletically foreman isn't the ones at a disadvantage.
Idk what style foremans new coach is gona play .. but we have about 10 players that can go pretty good .. we should be able too go razorback style and run most teams too death ..
Where did this poyen girls team come from? They are ranked #3.
Carlisle beat them 20+... To be honest though, there is no middle of the road in 2A girls. You are either good or very bad. They haven't had the luxury of playing anyone yet.
Blevins comes too foreman tonight should be a good game !
Quote from: ak58 on December 22, 2017, 10:15:21 am
Lol. Foreman will be a 3 or 4 seed in basketball. Once you come off that football high you'll see. I think everyone around knew Forman would be 1 or 2 in football. They are a quick athletic bunch, but Blevins and Mt. pine are better. Cutter is pretty close
Tonight Blevins got beat by foreman 64-62. Only the gators third game. Not taking anything away from Blevins they are very good and have one of the best coaches in 2A but since foreman played football so long nobody wanted to discuss them. Well now I think we enter the discussion. Also when this senior class was 9th graders foreman did win this conference for those of you that did not know.
When do that play Mt. Pine?
Foreman and mountain pine play January 25th. I'm glad it is later because we still need practice and games but foreman does have a very talented team.
Quote from: Bildo on January 03, 2018, 08:15:03 am
Carlisle beat them 20+... To be honest though, there is no middle of the road in 2A girls. You are either good or very bad. They haven't had the luxury of playing anyone yet.
Poyen's best player was hurt when they played Carlisle. It would be a little closer if they played right now.
Blevins beat Foreman last night 70-64. They split season series and will probably meet later again in the post season. Foreman needs practice, reps and games to improve from being so late getting basketball going due to football. Foreman will only get better with last nights game only being their fifth game.
Quote from: jdwalk on January 04, 2018, 10:28:07 pm
Poyen's best player was hurt when they played Carlisle. It would be a little closer if they played right now.
Did she play?
What is her number?
Quote from: Eslim03 on January 10, 2018, 02:46:38 pm
Blevins beat Foreman last night 70-64. They split season series and will probably meet later again in the post season. Foreman needs practice, reps and games to improve from being so late getting basketball going due to football. Foreman will only get better with last nights game only being their fifth game.
Happened to be close by so decided to stop and watch this game. Foreman very athletic and have some kids that can shoot it. Young coach works hard but he had better get a bunch of their lips shut or he could loose them very fast. There were several whose attitudes leave a lot to be desired, mouthing when he took them out, hitting stuff etc. Very talented group hope they get it together fun to watch
Quote from: monkeyman3434 on January 12, 2018, 08:48:22 am
Happened to be close by so decided to stop and watch this game. Foreman very athletic and have some kids that can shoot it. Young coach works hard but he had better get a bunch of their lips shut or he could loose them very fast. There were several whose attitudes leave a lot to be desired, mouthing when he took them out, hitting stuff etc. Very talented group hope they get it together fun to watch
I think there was some frustration with there individual play . Not being disrespectful too there coach .. I think coach Blanton has the makeing too be a very good coach. .. very smart man and knowledgeable of the game...
Where is the 2A-7 West district tournament this year?
Poyen along with the region
Quote from: couch-coach06 on January 18, 2018, 02:30:32 pm
Poyen along with the region
This should not be the case. Last year district tournament was at cutter and region was at magnet cove. This year is Poyen for both. When they started these blended conferences one would think that the district tournament would rotate from one side of the blended conference to the other side of the blended conferences. These sites are extreme travel for Foreman. We would still have a lot of travel to Blevins, Murfreesboro, or Caddo but it would be more reasonable.
Are you kidding me? They are hosting basketball district & regionals, softball and baseball regionals? what in the world they are in the middle of no where
Friends in the right places. Triple a won't do anything about though. Still crazy to me how they get everything
Quote from: Eslim03 on January 18, 2018, 04:46:32 pm
This should not be the case. Last year district tournament was at cutter and region was at magnet cove. This year is Poyen for both. When they started these blended conferences one would think that the district tournament would rotate from one side of the blended conference to the other side of the blended conferences. These sites are extreme travel for Foreman. We would still have a lot of travel to Blevins, Murfreesboro, or Caddo but it would be more reasonable.
Poyen and Parkers Chapel are the only schools to put in a bid for baseball and softball regionals. I don't know on Basketball but I guess Poyen's bid was better than the other schools.
Quote from: jdwalk on January 21, 2018, 03:55:07 pm
Poyen and Parkers Chapel are the only schools to put in a bid for baseball and softball regionals. I don't know on Basketball but I guess Poyen's bid was better than the other schools.
I was talking about basketball. The district tournament should be in the southern part of the conference this year especially since regionals are at Poyen. As I stated earlier cutter got the district last year therefore I'm saying the district should be at Blevins, Murfreesboro, Caddo, or Foreman.
Well it's going to be st poyen and after this year they won't be in your conference anyway so no need in blowing things up that won't change. If schools want it then put in a big enough bid to get it. Poyen also has junior high district is what I was told. Not excited about going there but if they won the bid blame the other schools for not putting in a bid or a large enough one.
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They don't bid on district tournaments to my knowledge they are supposed to rotate thru the schools. The district is at Poyen but if I want to complain I will do just that.
They bid it's not a rotation is what I was told because I had the same question as to how they got so many tournaments to host but that may not be correct but made sense. And with their super retiring after this year and having a new facility they are trying to get all they can and apparently put in some very good bids. Just how the games played, but make no mistake I'm sure many people aren't excited about having to go to poyen.....
The district was bid on this year .. but will go back too rotation next year when we go back too a more normal conference.
How is everyone team doing in 2a-7 jr high conference play?
Anyone have brackets for this district tournament yet?
Boys:
UPPER
Caddo Hills vs Murfreesboro 2-12 8:30p
winner plays Poyen 2-13 8:30p
winner plays Mt. Pine 2-16 8:30p
LOWER
Foreman vs Magnet Cove 2-12 5:50p
winner plays Cutter Morning Star 2-13 5:50p
winner plays Blevins 2-16 5:50p
Finals 2-17 6:30p
Quote from: N2DEEP on February 10, 2018, 08:12:38 am
Boys:
UPPER
Caddo Hills vs Murfreesboro 2-12 8:30p
winner plays Poyen 2-13 8:30p
winner plays Mt. Pine 2-16 8:30p
LOWER
Foreman vs Magnet Cove 2-12 5:50p
winner plays Cutter Morning Star 2-13 5:50p
winner plays Blevins 2-16 5:50p
Finals 2-17 6:30p
Where is district at?
Poyen
What happened to Foreman in the second half of the season?
Foreman played mountain pine tuff then started struggling. They got everybody's best shot after the pine game and really snow balled a little. If they can Start shooting it better and playing to their capabilities they should do fine in the tournament. I hope so anyway.
Shocked to see they lost to Magnet Cove.
Well foreman beat magnet cove tonight and played much better. We play cutter tomorrow night.
Foreman 70
Cutter 55
Final boys
Murfreesboro girls beat foreman not sure the score because I was late getting there. I wish somebody at these games could help update us on there teams scores please.
Caddo Hills boys beat Poyen 56 44 tonight.
Boys semifinals Friday at Poyen
Blevins vs. Foreman 5:50
Mountain Pine vs. Caddo Hills 8:30
what about girls semis?
Quote from: Bigpoppie on February 14, 2018, 08:20:06 am
what about girls semis?
Girls Semis
Blevins vs Caddo Hills 4:30
Poyen vs Murfreesboro 7:10
Can someone post these scores for us when they play?
I'll predict pine as the 1 seed then Blevins foreman and cadd hills on boys for regionals
Girls will be
1. Caddo Hills
2. Murfreesboro
3. Poyen
4. Blevins
Girls
1 Caddo
2 Poyen
3 Murfreesboro
4 Blevins
1& 2 could flip flop depend on if Caddo girls played as well
aganist Poyen as they did in the first match up.
Boys
1 Mt Pine
2 Blevins
3 Foreman
4 Caddo
2 and 3 could flip flop depends on how well Forman plays.
If one of the Fresman for Caddo gets hot they could sneak up to 3. Just my opinion.
Well we don't play a 3rd place game so seeding sets the bottom two..
i seen that after i looked at bracket they all will have to play well to beat Mt Pine. i think Caddo is seeded higher than Foreman, if they go off of just conference record that should be the case. So they may still get the 3.
Caddo girls 68 Blevins 40.
Beat me to it, Rip jaw!
Blevins wins 62-61 over Foreman
Poyen 65
Murfreesboro 36
Girls
Mt Pine 53
Caddo 31
Are there games for 3/4 place tomorrow?
Nope
How are they determining who gets 3rd, 4th?
Quote from: ak58 on February 16, 2018, 11:49:56 pm
How are they determining who gets 3rd, 4th?
Highest seed so Caddo will be the 3 and Foreman will be the 4. Their reward is a matchup with Bearden and PC.
Anyone know why they don't play a 3/4 game. I can understand it in baseball but not basketball
Quote from: old.dole on February 17, 2018, 12:40:07 am
Anyone know why they don't play a 3/4 game. I can understand it in baseball but not basketball
The reason I have been told is that it rewards the winner of the regular season by ensuring that they are no lower than a 3 seed for regionals.
In my opinion getting that automatic bid to regionals is reward enough and the host school for the district tournament misses out on some serious money by not getting those two 3rd place games.
How does everyone think the 2A-7 east will do against the west?
the west for the girls is better. I think the East may be better in boys but I've only seen Blevins and Foreman boys play so I can't speak for mt pine and Caddo. PC, Bearen, and HG boys are very solid.
I think that is pretty accurate Mt Pine is pretty solid should be able to hold their own agnist the East. Caddos best players are young. They could make some noise just dont know if they have enough to make a big run this year.
The west is better for boys and girls. Other side of the region has 2 good teams.
Caddo Hills girls and MP boys are much better than I thought. I think they both win by double digits tonight. But, I do think the west will do very well against the east in regionals.
Expect an all west region finals in girls and MP vs PC in boys.
Caddo Hills 53
Poyen 52
Final
What was the boys final?
Mt pine 69
Blevins 53
All west finals in girls? Idk.
I hope coach Lowry gets a win over Murfreesboro.
Spring Hill has a tough road to the finals, but they can get there. Will have to beat poyen on their home court.
HG is overrated. SH isn't a threat to win state, but they are certainly good enough to win this region. Let's not get all high and mighty. SH girls should be in the finals for sure. Should be.
Yeah they should be. State tourney will be tough. Caddo and poyen are beatable. Good teams tho! It will be a good region.
:(Everyone in 2A is beatable. There's no Norfork in AA. That being said, the number one and 2 finishers in this region get big breaks in state tournament. Both get byes.
Quote from: PapaHog on February 17, 2018, 01:16:35 pm
The west is better for boys and girls. Other side of the region has 2 good teams.
I 2nd this