Basketball Tournament Brackets Announced

By Clare Wiltse

Sports Contributor

The East Husker Conference announced their brackets for the 2014 Basketball Tournament.  The girls’ play starts on Friday, January 31 with the boys action beginning the next night.

With an even number of 16 teams in the EHC this year, there will be four sites during the first round.  The top four seeds get home court advantage on the opening night.  The second  round and semi finals will be hosted by the highest remaining seed in the bracket.  Finals and consolation finals will be held at Central Community College in Columbus.

The seeding was set by a poll of the coaches..  The girls bracket is topped by Pender and Humphrey/Lindsay Holy Family.  Howells-Dodge and Stanton get the third and fourth seeds.  Howells-Dodge is the number on seed on the boys’ side, followed by Bancroft-Rosalie, West Point Beemer, and Wisner-Pilger.

The Cougars were placed in the twelve seed for the boys.  They will play at Wisner.  They are pitted against Twin River, the number five seed, on Saturday February 1. A win would place them against the Wisner-Pilger/Tekamah-Herman winner.  A loss means playing the loser between Stanton and Scribner-Snyder on Friday

The girls drew Howells-Dodge for their first game on January 31.  The game is at Dodge.  The winner is bracketed with the Twin River-West Point -Beemer winner.  The loser plays against the Stanton vs. Clarkson/Leigh loser on Thursday.