tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post3157032730006021697..comments2024-03-29T00:38:31.950-04:00Comments on The Heath Post: Congratulations to the CardinalsGoHeathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122010542579322600noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-67428160016144785302013-04-10T09:45:35.428-04:002013-04-10T09:45:35.428-04:00Sorry it didn't work out for the Louisville wo...Sorry it didn't work out for the Louisville women's basketball team, too. I've mentioned that Coach Jeff Walz is from Fort Thomas Highlands High and NKU, and Sara Hammond, the big star of Rockcastle County High's 2011 Sweet Sixteen champ, was the Cardinals' lading scorer (15) and rebounder (five) in last night's 90-63 loss to Connecticut. Antonita Slaughter of Christian Academy of Louisville also started for U of L, and the also included Shelby Harper from Allen County-Scottsville, Tia Gibbs of Louisville Butler and Monique Reed of Louisville Fern Creek (as well as Monny Niamke, a woman from France who played at Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia before transferring to Louisville). <br /><br />Whereas the relative talent of Kentucky boys' high-school basketball players to the rest of the country appears to have declined since, <a href="http://www.heathpost.com/2013/03/a-real-piece-of-history.html?showComment=1362503666269#c4400520140265243426" rel="nofollow">say, 1971</a>, I'm starting to wonder if we are in the golden days of Kentucky girls' high-school basketball. The KHSAA didn't do girls' championships after the 1920s until 1975. Hammond was the first Kentucky girl to be selected for the McDonald's All-American game, but Kentucky had two players--Marion County's Makayla Epps and Owensboro Catholic's Becca Greenwell--for this year's game. The first McDonald's girls game was played in 2002. In the window of 1975 through 2002, WKU had a couple of Final Four teams in the mid-1980s that were led by Kentucky talent (particularly Lillie Mason of Olmstead and Clemmette Haskins of Bowling Green Warren Central). And one of the big stars of its 1992 Final Four team was Kim Pehlke of Louisville Doss. But I'm not sure Kentucky has ever produced as many starting-quality basketball players for NCAA women's basketball than it is right now. Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-48907954135193369152013-04-10T08:22:47.065-04:002013-04-10T08:22:47.065-04:00It's Jim Nantz Week in America, baby--nobody&#...It's Jim Nantz Week in America, baby--nobody's going outside.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-45210234477914531632013-04-09T01:03:46.180-04:002013-04-09T01:03:46.180-04:00Here are the final rankings of Kentucky's seve...Here are the final rankings of Kentucky's seven D-1 teams, according to Ken Pomeroy:<br /><br />1. Louisville: 35-5<br />48. Kentucky: 21-12<br />115. E. Kentucky: 25-10<br />139. Murray St: 21-10<br />174. W. Kentucky: 20-16<br />229. Morehead St: 15-18<br />239. N. Kentucky: 11-16<br /><br />And now we can all go outside and enjoy the nicer weather, and wait for next November, when it will start anew.GoHeathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11122010542579322600noreply@blogger.com