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Livingston has a group coming in that has gone 35-1 in two season with their only loss being to a Woodlands Middle School who has not lost in two years. This group has won numerous AAU tournaments and went to the National Tournament in their age group three years in a row and coming in second one year. Shouldbe a great group.

Joubert would be a great hire for Ozen. His style would fit very well with Ozen's talent.

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Too many good teams out there better than them this year. Also, with Boutte gone they will lose a game because of the coaching aspect of it. I fully expect Huntsville to beat them next round if they both make it their and for Huntsville to make the regional tourney instead of them.

Maybe he doesn't show up every game? There have been numerous games this year where he was a non factor. Kid's only a sophomore. Maybe he wasn't a factor in that game, I wasn't there so I don't know how North Forest was playing him. Also, guard play has to do with him being able to play inside and Nederland struggled with teams that could play in their face D and their guards would struggle getting the ball to him. I assume North Forest did that exact thing to them. Forney will be a beast the next couple of years.

Me and a buddy of mine were listening to the game last night here on the radio. Neither one of us are from Livingston but we just like basketball and let me tell you just listening to the game on the radio it sounded like one heck of a game. If I remember correctly Livingston was up like 13 with 2 minutes left in the game and Del Valle came storming back. The announcers, probably one sided because I think they were Livingston fans, were saying that Del Valle couldn't miss a shot and that Livingston was getting some bad calls and no calls against them. I don't know because I wasn't there. Anyway, apparently with 9 seconds or so Del Valle threw it in to their big man and he scored to tie the game @ 70 and that Harris kid got the ball and turned up the court and was fouled with 4 seconds left. Hit the front end of shooting 2 and missed the second one. Livingston came down with the rebound but was called for traveling. Del Valle had one last shot with a little over 2 seconds left and heaved it up and it missed. To add a little more, apparently Livingston never trailed a quarter. If I remember correctly they carried an 8-12 point lead the entire night. Just couldn't close it out bigger I guess. Again, from the radio it sounded like one crazy game. Congrats Livingston!!!

I know a little about Livingston but know very very little about CE King. Who you got and why?

Maybe it's just a thing where the Livingston coaches want to prepare their team for a game in a bigger gym, different atmosphere, more pressure than what they are used to seeing. I'm sure both teams want to win for that second seed but I've known coaches who do things like this to prepare their team for future down the road games. I don't know but that's just my two cents because I've known coaches who have done that before. Maybe turning up the heat on their team is what they think is best for them and I don't know of another gym between those two schools that would offer up that kind of gym?

Boys. 3 way tie for second right now.

Are you positive about that? I ask because I don't know and it may very well happen in 20-4A to determine seeding.

You would think because he is also an Assitant Principal he might have a clue about.

Yes, because everyone on a message board is innocent in that case. NO ONE and I mean no one says anything bad about a team, coach, administration etc. That's the whole premise of a message board, to criticize and discuss and each and every person on here is guilty as charged when talking about specific kids or coaches. Give me a break!!

Forget about what did or didn't happen in the past few weeks and whether or not the school policy says anything or not, that's what my big issue was with everything. It's so obvious what went on here before the Central game and it's sickening to know that a coach and a program gets away with crap like that and is willing to do it. At some point your own personal morals have to kick in and apparently that didn't happen here.

Well, I understand what your saying but I can't say anything more because I don't know who reads these boards. But, from what I know of this incident there was nothing that made it a felony and it still happened. Seeing that play out and now seeing this play out it just boggles my mind that there was nothing done, whether or not TEA says it has to be done or not, the fact that Ozen is simply giving him a meanningless 2 game suspension is in my mind a way for them to apease some people and keep their star player out there. Regardless of what TEA says, sorry. APpreciate the info though.

Nope from what I understand it was a simple fist fight but because the charges were brought up the school sent him away until they were dropped. Maybe it's a school thing?