HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

THE 2^ND REGION ALL A BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT BEGIN THIS EVENING.

GIRLS:  UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS ACADEMY HOSTS CRITTENDEN COUNTY AT 7:00, WITH COVERAGE FROM BLAZER GYM BEGINNING WITH THE HERITAGE BANK PRE GAME SHOW AT 6:45 ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP AND WHOP AM.COM

OTHER GAMES HAVE CALDWELL COUNTY GOING AGAINST DAWSON SPRINGS AND TRIGG COUNTY MEETING LYON COUNTY.

IN THE 1^ST REGION ALL A:  HICKMAN COUNTY MEETS MURRAY AND CARLISLE COUNTY TAKES ON BALLARD MEMORIAL AT GRAVES COUNTY.

3^RD REGION:  OWENSBORO CATHOLIC MEETS BUTLER COUNTY.

4^TH REGION:  TODD CENTRAL MEETS METCALFE COUNTY AND RUSSELLVILLE BATTLES CLINTON COUNTY.

ELSEWHERE:  FORT CAMPBELL MEETS JO BYRNS, TENNESSEE, HENDERSON COUNTY HOSTS EVANSVILLE NORTH AND MUHLENBERG COUNTY TRAVELS TO BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY.

BOYS:   4^TH REGION ALL A GAMES HAVE TODD CENTRAL AGAINST METCALFE COUNTY AND RUSSELLVILLE MEETS CLINTON COUNTY.

OTHER GAMES:  UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS IS AT LEXINGTON CATHOLIC AND FORT CAMPBELL GOES TO JO BYRNS, TENNESSEE.

THE CANTRALL RANKINGS FOR THIS WEEK ARE OUT.

BOYS:  LOUISVILLE EASTERN IS FIRST, WARREN CENTRAL 9^TH, CHRISTIAN COUNTY 11^TH, BOWLING GREEN 12^TH, GLASGOW 17^TH AND HENDERSON COUNTY 21^ST.

GIRLS:  MANUAL IS FIRST, BOWLING GREEN 4^TH, CALLOWAY COUNTY 11^TH, MURRAY 20^TH AND OWENSBORO CATHOLIC IS 21^ST.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

KENTUCKY IS BACK IN ACTION TUESDAY NIGHT ON THE ROAD AT ALABAMA.  PRE GAME COVERAGE OF THE GAME FROM TUSCALOOSA BEGINS AT 6:30 ON LITE 98.7.

AUSTIN PEAY’S BASKETBALL TEAMS WILL BE BACK IN ACTION THURSDAY NIGHT AT THE DUNN CENTER, HOSTING TENNESSEE TECH IN A DOUBLEHEADER.  THE WOMEN’S GAME BEGINS AT 5:15.

SUNDAY’S RESULTS:  VICTORIA DUNLAP SCORED 22 POINTS AS KENTUCKY HELD OFF MISSISSIPPI STATE 72-60.

WESTERN KENTUCKY’S LADY TOPPERS DEFEATED FLORIDA ATLANTIC 73-46 SUNDAY AFTERNOON.  ARNIKA BROWN HAD A DOUBLE-DOUBLE WITH 13 POINTS AND 10 REBOUNDS IN 26 MINUTES.

FOLLOWING SATURDAY NIGHT’S LOSS BY WESTERN KENTUCKY’S MEN’S TEAM TO FLORIDA ATLANTIC, ATHLETIC DIRECTOR ROSS BJORK ADDRESSED THE MEDIA.

THE BOWLING GREEN DAILY NEWS REPORTS BJORK SAID HE DID NOT KNOW IF COACH KEN MCDONALD WOULD REMAIN COACH FOLLOWING THE SEASON.  HE ACKNOWLEDGED FAN FRUSTRATION AFTER THE HILLTOPPERS LOST THEIR SIXTH STRAIGHT GAME.

BJORK ALSO TOUCHED ON THE STATE OF THE WOMEN’S PROGRAM AND SAID HE HAD DIALOGUE WITH BOTH MCDONALD AND WOMEN’S COACH MARY TAYLOR COWLES AND HIS EVALUATION OF BOTH PROGRAMS IS DAY TO DAY.

THE TENNESSEAN REPORTS VANDERBILT FORWARD ANDRE WALKER IS UNDECIDED ABOUT WHETHER HE WILL RETURN FOR HIS SENIOR SEASON.  THE NEWSPAPER REPORTS WALKER CONSIDERED GIVING UP BASKETBALL IN THE PAST OFF SEASON.

WALKER IS CURRENTLY RECOVERING FROM A SPRAINED ANKLE AND HE COULD MISS HIS 8^TH STRAIGHT GAME WHEN THE COMMODORES HOST OLE MISS WEDNESDAY.  WALKER SAYS HE PLANS TO RETURN ONCE HIS ANKLE HEALS.

WALKER IS SLATED TO GRADUATE THIS SPRING AND ADDS THE DEATH OF HIS MOTHER IN 2009 HAS MADE BASKETBALL BOTH DIFFERENT AND DIFFICULT TO ENJOY.

NHL

THE NASHVILLE PREDATORS LOST THE BACK END OF A HOME AND HOME SERIES WITH CHICAGO 6-3 IN THE WINDY CITY.  THE PREDS CONTINUE ON THEIR SIX GAME ROAD TRIP TOMORROW NIGHT AT PHOENIX.  FIRST PUCK DROPS AT EIGHT P-M.