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TAPPS Class 3A State Championship from McMurry College in Abilene at 5

Thank you, kind sir!

4A Regional Finals: I: Midlothian Heritage vs. Seminole II: Argyle vs. Paris III: Silsbee vs. Houston Yates IV: Brazosport vs. West Oso

FINAL FROM HUNTSVILLE: Silsbee 93 Waco La Vega 52 The Tigers will face the Yates Lions tomorrow at 1 pm. You can hear the game right here on SETXsports!

Mike lost power so he will get you the stats later tonight.

He's in Huntsville.

Broadcast is on the air!

Broadcast to start in 5 minutes

TAPPS Class 3A State Semifinal from McMurry University in Abilene at 8 The winner of this game will face the Midland Classical/Denton Calvary winner

Class 6A, Region III Semifinal from Berry Center in Cypress at 8 The winner of this game will face the Fort Bend Bush/Pearland Dawson winner

Class 3A, Region III Semifinal from Midway High School in Waco at 8 The winner of this game will face the Jarrell/La Marque winner

Class 2A, Region III Semifinal from Leon High School in Jewett at 5 The winner of this game will face the Italy/Tenaha winner

Class 2A, Region III Regional Semifinal from Leon High School in Jewett at 7:30 pm The winner of this game will face the Grapeland/Shelbyville winner

No doubt, Coach. I think that the increased travel involved.....and if the split in the 4 smaller classes reveals, anything, THERE WILL BE INCREASED TRAVEL much to the contrary of what the UIL claims...has been a relatively overlooked negative to the split. It won't be when these coaches get their travel budgets in the Spring of 2018 and see what they have to cut to meet that travel budget.

The Silsbee Tigers look to take one more step towards a 4A State Championship tonight as they face the La Vega Pirates in this Class 4A, Region III semifinal. The road to this semifinal for Joe Sigler's Tigers, 29-6 on the season, began with a 105-55 bi-district win over Huntington, followed by an area round victory over Hardin-Jefferson, 98-61 and capped with a 124-84 Region III quarterfinal win over Houston North Forest. Meanwhile, La Vega, champions of District 17-4A and 24-9 on the season, started its playoff road with a 71-59 bi-district win over Madisonville, followed by a 77-71 area round win over Liberty Hill and a Region III quarterfinal win over Lorena, 74-41. The winner of this game will face the winner of the Houston Yates/Waco Connally winner tomorrow at 1 pm. Join Mike Sanchez for all of the action from Johnson Coliseum in Huntsville beginning with the pregame show at 7:45 pm leading to a scheduled tip off at 8 by clicking play on the following player: Share Events on The Cube Follow Silsbee Tiger Playoff Basketball on Your Source for Sports in Southeast Texas, SETXsports!

Berry Center in Cypress.

Well, my math again reveals that the watering down is due to the amount of teams in the Class, not the DI/DII split and makes me now wonder if we will see the same type of districts Folks look at 4A and point to the number of 5 and 6 team districts as the fate that awaits 5A. But folks don't always realize, that under the current alignment, only 187 teams are in 4A. With 32 total districts, that is an average of just under 6 teams per district. In fact, a look at alignments in other sports reveal that area basketball districts, not under the DI/DII split look strikingly similar in number to their football counterparts which is under such a division. By contrast, under the current alignment, there are 253 teams in Class 5A. With 32 districts, that is an average of just under 8 teams per district. For 5A districts, even in DI and DII, to look like their 4A counterparts, the UIL would have to rid Class 5A of 66 schools, or effectively 1 out of every 4 current 5A teams. SImply put. regardless of whether 5A maintains it's current form or moves to a DI/DII season long split, the UIL will still be charged with placing 253 (or approximately that many) schools into 32 districts. Thus, after further comptemplation, I really doubt that you will see a difference in number of teams per district that what you see now. It just gets to that you gotta put them somewhere.

I don't recall there being any fruit orchards or rice fields in downtown Houston.

Yes, the shortened district schedule does mean that fewer district wins will be required to qualify for the playoffs, However, that is not the only headache that a shortened district schedule will create for now coaches who were used to scheduling only 2-3 pre-district games now get to schedule half of their season with pre-season games. Thus the likes of Coaches, Faircloth, Barrow and Riordan get to enter the world of Coaches Thompson, Smith and DuBois in that respect. In fact, the members of the local 4A DI and DII district might be the biggest winners as they could possibly have more suitors for those fourth, fifth and possibly sixth pre-district game come next February..

Not sure, but it looks like they have been without him for all of the playoffs.

Both the regional semifinal and regional final will be in Huntville.

Just look at the math of it. Under the current system, 32 statewide districts send 4 teams to the playoffs (2 DI and 2 II), meaning 128 teams currently make the playoffs. Under the new system, 4 teams will go to the playoffs out of 16 statewide DI districts and 4 teams will go to the playoffs out of 16 statewide districts. Guess what? That is still 128 teams going to the playoffs.

BOYS HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL SCHEDULE - REGIONAL TOURNAMENT Friday, March 3, 2017 Class 6A Cypress Falls Eagles 55 Atascocita Eagles 45 (Cypress Falls to face Fort Bend Bush) Class 4A Waco La Vega Pirates 52 Silsbee Tigers 93 (Silsbee to face Houston Yates) Class 3A Teague Lions 78 Kountze Lions 71 (Teague to face Jarrell) Class 2A Grapeland Sandies 86 Shelbyville Dragons 68 (Grapeland to face Tenaha) Italy Gladiators 67 Tenaha Tigers 92 (Tenaha to face Grapeland) Saturday, March 4, 2017 Class 4A 1:00 pm - Houston Yates Lions vs. Silsbee Tigers, Johnson Coliseum (Sam Houston State), Huntsville (Winner to advance to State 4A Tournament) Class 2A 12:00 pm - Grapeland Sandies vs. Tenaha Tigers, Leon High School, Jewett (Winner to advance to State 2A Tournament)

Grapeland wins 61-54

Laura Sadler‏ @LauraSadler2 Slocum 56, Wells 31- FINAL