3A D2
Kountze vs Pineywoods Academy
Tuesday Feb 18th 6:00 pm
Cleveland High School
Common opponents
Pineywoods Academy
Coldspring 50-51, 38-50
Buna 51-47
Kountze
Coldspring 87-49
Buna 101-45, 103-53
West Texas teams usually aren’t as athletic as teams this side of the state but tend to be more fundamentally sound and better coached… That’s been the demographic for a while for boys and girls teams… When Kountze won state against Shallowater in the 2006-2007 season the losing team alphas a player get interviewed stating Kountze didn’t play “real basketball” because Kountze was full court press just causing havoc lol
I wish Kountze was D1… would’ve loved a Kountze vs Tatum state championship. But yeah Hitchcock still is pretty decent… not close to what they were last year though
Barring a upset Kountze wouldn’t have to see a ranked team until the state semi finals on the girls side of things… Definitely a favorable path for the Lionettes… They have put together a solid regular season with their lone 3 losses coming to
5A # 16 Dickenson 44-57
2A #1 Martins Mill 43-55
3A #13 Hitchcock 46-54
So not really and bad losses…
Just Catching up on all this… For the Kountze girls they have the talent… The senior PG is signed with Lamar…she is good. But they aren’t very well coached… They will struggle vs well coached and disciplined teams… The boys are very good and senior heavy. Kountze starts 4 seniors and 1 sophomore. 3 of the 5 starters shoot the 3 well…not a ton of size… the sophomore is 6’5 and the other guy down low is 6’4-6’5 ish. The PG Zac Sells is very good. He has 3000 career points and Knocks down deep 3s if given the space and very smart defensively. Region 3 is theirs to lose IMO
Kountze is in the same boat as Tatum… no competition until probably the 3rd or 4th round…
Kountze first half of district scores
Hardin 105-30
Buna 101-45
Anahuac 90-31
Kirbyville 88-13
#15 East Chambers 89-64
Warren 100-25
#16 Orangefield 79-35