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After months of anticipation the National City KHSAA Sweet Sixteen basketball tournament kicked of in Lexinton, KY yesterday at Rupp Arena. Yesterday started off with the opening games. 4 games, 8 teams, 4 winners who will advance to the elite 8. Today there are another 4 games to see who will round out the elite 8. Friday are another four games, concluding with saturday which will have the final four in the morning and afternoon to see who will play in the championship game Saturday night. The busiest weekend in March when it comes to High School hoops....this is the real March Madness that has been anticipated throughout the state for months! Check out the brackets, choose your favorite teams, and come on out to Rupp to catch all the action!
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This year's basketball season is coming to a close and March Madness in Kentucky is about to begin. The Pep Tour kicks off this weekend at the region championship games March 10-13. The sights are decided and include:
March 10
Region 6
(Louisville Area)
At Louisville Gardens at 12 pm
Region 7
(Louisville Area)
At Louisville Gardens at 1:30 pm
March 11
Region 10
(Northeast)
At Mason County at 3 pm
March 12
Region 16
(Ashland Area)
At Morehead State University at 7 pm
March 13
Region 4
(Bowling Green Area)
At Western Kentucky University at 6 pm
Region 5
(Elizabethtown Area)
At Central Hardin at 7 pm
Region 9
(Nothern KY Area)
At Holmes at 7 pm
Region 11
(Lexington Area)
At Eastern Kentucky University at 7:30 pm
Region 12
(Danville Area)
At Lincoln County at 7:30 pm
Region 13
(Southeast Area)
At Corbin at 7:30 pm
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As regular season begins to come to a close, the Pep Tour is getting ready to kick off! National City will be taking the championship trophy back around the state to get students, players, and fans pumped up for the National City KHSAA Sweet Sixteen Tournament to be held at Rupp Arena in Lexington, KY. The tour travels to different region championship gamesacross the state. This year the tour will stop at 10 of the 16 regions, including: region 4, region 5, region 6, region 7, region 9, region 10, region 11, region 12, region 13, and region 16. These region championship games determine which schools get to compete in the Sweet Sixteen and who will continue their journey on the Road to Rupp! Will you be there?
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The fourth year of the National City "How Sweet It Is Scholarship Tour" wrapped up last friday at Mercer County High School. It was the eleventh and final stop on the tour. Not only did the tour enable us to get great pics of you guys for this website and take the National City KHSAA Boys' Sweet Sixteen Championship Trophy around to these eleven schools, but it was also a chance for high school seniors to sign up for the scholarship National City offers to student-atheletes. It's always fun to see everyone's reaction to the big trophy. It might end up back at one of those schools permanently in a few weeks! The main purpose it to promote the scholarship, which is an amazing opportunity. National City Bank has 32 $1,000 scholarships that they award to 16 boys and 16 girls, one from each region in Kentucky. The winners are chosen based on four areas: academic achievement, leadership, citizenship, and sportsmanship. Overall, the trophy tour was a huge success!
Next step....gearing up for the Pep Tour!
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Friday night I traveled to Louisville to go to the Dupont Manual - Jeffersontown basketball game and help with the National City Trophy Tour. The trophy tour takes the state championship trophy around Kentucky to different high schools in order to promote the National City KHSAA Sweet Sixteen Tournament, as well as the $1,000 scholarship that National City gives away to one high school athelete. It was really fun to get to see everyone's reaction to the HUGE trophy! Another thing that made this game unique was the fact that Jeffersontown High School won the state tournament last year and one of their players was actually on the poster we use to promote the trophy tour. That got them even more excited to see us (mainly the trophy!) at their game. The coaches and players kept making comments that they were going to take that trophy home in a few weeks. One assistant coach even said, we could go ahead and take that off your hands now to save you the trouble of bringing it to the tournament. He was joking of course, but the team looked great against the rams and will have a very good chance in the upcoming championship. We talked to a sophomore Manual player before the game who said that he was excited and not too nervous. He said there would probably be more students at that basketball game than any other game that year. He also said that the televised game was his second to play in and that it did not add any pressure to him or to his teammates. They were ready to get out there and put up a hard fight against the reigning state champs. Unfortunately, from tip-off Jeffersontown dominated the court. They pulled ahead right away and maintained the lead throughout the game. The rams continued to fight the chargers throughout the game, which ended with a score of 67-56 and a loss for Manual. However, it was a valiant effort against such a good team. I don't know if it was because we were at Dupont Manual's home court or because I just really like an upset, but I was really pulling for the rams and wished it would have ended differently. Despite the loss, it was a fun and entertaining night. I don't think I have been to a high school basketball game since I was in high school. It brought back a lot of memories and it was a lot of fun to see the fans get into the game, which included a lot of paint!   
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Being from Nashville, basketball has not been that big of a deal. Tennessee is definitely more of a football state! However, today I got the opportunity to go watch the Sweet Sixteen bracket drawing at WKYT's studio. It was such a big production that got me really excited for the tournament. I got to see the drawing first hand from behind the scenes. I also got to meet a lot of really interesting and really important people, including Commissioner Brigid DeVries. I really didn't know what to expect going into it, but I quickly learned it was much more professional than I would have thought. I was almost picturing drawing numbers out of a hat! Instead they had what looked like a lotto machine spitting out balls with the region numbers on them. There were also sports writers from the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Lexington Herald-Leader who were analyzing the brackets. Everyone kept saying that it was a great drawing and it seemed to be a very fair match-up across the board. Someone even said that it was the best drawing he had ever seen. All I know is that I continue to be more and more impressed with Kentucky basketball and therefore get more excited about March and the Sweet Sixteen tournament by the minute!
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Most people ask me why I came to Kentucky for school when I live in Tennessee. There are several reasons I chose UK over UT. The first reason is that I have really disliked UT my whole life. Another reason is that almost my entire graduating class from high school went to UT and I wanted to branch out. Also the colors blue and white are way more attractive than bright orange and white! However, one of the main reasons I chose UK was because of the cheerleading program. UK's cheerleaders, in 2002 when I graduated, had won 8 national titles in a row and 12 total. I wanted to be a part of that program as well as get to cheer in Rupp Arena for one of the best college basketball programs in the nation.
So basically that is why I chose the University of Kentucky, but getting there was a different story. The frist time I remember seeing the UK cheerleaders was at a cheerleading competition my freshman year of high school and that is where the dream began. The rest of my high school career was dedicated to becoming good enough to be on that squad. I cheered for my high school football and basketball teams, as well as on an all-star competitive cheerleading squad. On top of all this I was going into the gym on my free time to work on my own and with my coaches on tumbling and coed stunting. It was a lot of hard work but it eventually all paid off!
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