WE’LL HAVE SPORTS WEEKLY TONIGHT AT 5:05 ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP.  TODD HAMILTON’S GUESTS WILL INCLUDE TRIGG COUNTY BOYS BASKETBALL COACH MIKE WRIGHT, WHO WILL TALK ABOUT THE INAGURAL CLASS OF THE TRIGG COUNTY SPORTS HALL OF FAME AND CHRISTIAN COUNTY BASKETBALL COACH KERRY STOVALL.

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

WITH THE NEW SNOWFALL WEDNESDAY, WE CAN PRESUME NO GAMES WILL BE PLAYED TONIGHT.  THOSE GAMES INCLUDED AN 8^TH DISTRICT BOYS SHOWDOWN BETWEEN CHRISTIAN COUNTY AND UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS ACADEMY.

PAIRINGS HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED FOR THE 6^TH DISTRICT BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT WHICH BEGINS FEBRUARY 21^ST AT WEBSTER COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL.

GIRLS:  UNION COUNTY MEETS WEBSTER COUNTY FEBRUARY 21^ST, WITH THE WINNER TO PLAY HENDERSON COUNTY IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME FEBRUARY 24^TH.

BOYS:  UNION AND WEBSTER COUNTIES WILL PLAY FEBRUARY 22^ND, WITH THE WINNER TO FACE HENDERSON COUNTY FEBRUARY 25^TH.

THE 7^TH DISTRICT HAS ALSO ANNOUNCED ITS PAIRINGS. THE TOURNAMENT WILL BE PLAYED AT MADISONVILLE-NORTH HOPKINS.

CALDWELL COUNTY WILL FACE HOPKINS CENTRAL IN BOTH BOYS AND GIRLS PLAY FEBRUARY 21^ST BEGINNING AT SIX P-M.

DAWSON SPRINGS AND MADISONVILLE WILL PLAY A BOY-GIRL DOUBLEHEADER ON FEBRUARY 22^ND.  BOTH DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES WILL BE PLAYED THURSDAY FEBRUARY 24^TH.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

THE LOUISVILLE CARDINALS WERE DEFEATED AT NOTRE DAME IN OVERTIME 89-79. 

NOTRE DAME SCORED THE FIRST 14 POINTS OF THE O-T TO SECURE THE WIN.  U OF L’S KYLE KURIC HAD 18 OF HIS CAREER HIGH 28 POINTS IN THE FIRST HALF. 

TONIGHT’S GAMES:   MURRAY STATE IS SCHEDULED TO HOST TENNESSEE TECH IN A DOUBLEHEADER AT THE C-F-S-B CENTER, WITH THE WOMEN’S GAME BEGINNING AT 5:15.

WESTERN KENTUCKY WILL HOST MIDDLE TENNESSEE AT DIDDLE ARENA.  TIP OFF AT SEVEN P-M.

VANDERBILT HOSTS ALABAMA AT MEMORIAL GYM, WITH TIP OFF SET FOR SEVEN THIS EVENING.

KENTUCKY’S WOMEN RETURN TO ACTION TONIGHT AT SOUTH CAROLINA.  IT’S THE FIRST OF FOUR GAMES THE WILDCATS WILL PLAY ON THE ROAD IN THEIR LAST SIX GAMES OF THE SEASON. COVERAGE BEGINS AT 5:45 ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP.

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY ATHLETICS DIRECTOR MITCH BARNHART RECEIVED A THREE YEAR CONTRACT EXTENSION WEDNESDAY.  THE THREE YEAR DEAL WILL ALLOW BARNHART TO SERVE AS A-D UNTIL 2019 AND GET AN ANNUAL SALARY OF 600-THOUSAND DOLLARS.  BARNHART HAS SERVED AS U-K ATHLETIC DIRECTOR SINCE 2003.

NFL

BRUCE MATTHEWS HAS ACCEPTED THE POSITION OF OFFENSIVE LINE COACH FOR THE TENNESSEE TITANS.  THE TENNESSEAN REPORTS THE 49-YEAR-OLD MATTHEWS WILL REPLACE MIKE MUNCHAK, WHO WAS NAMED AS JEFF FISHER’S REPLACEMENT AS HEAD COACH MONDAY.

MATTHEWS HAS SPENT THE LAST TWO SEASONS AS AN OFFENSIVE ASSISTANT FOR THE HOUSTON TEXANS.

NHL

FOR THE SECOND TIME IN LESS THAN A WEEK, THE NASHVILLE PREDATORS HAVE BEATEN THE DETROIT RED WINGS.  LAST NIGHT IN DETROIT, THE PREDS WON 4-1.  NASHVILLE PLAYS COLORADO SATURDAY NIGHT AT SEVEN IN BRIDGESTONE ARENA.