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13th Region
NL
Corbin
Bell
SL
Knox

14th Region
Perry
Leslie
Owsley
Letcher
Powell

Are you basing your picks on returning players, transfers, and summer play? Just wondering.

Combination of all 3 but mainly based on returning players. Summer ball you really can’t get a read on and I don’t believe transfers until they are enrolled and walking the school hallways. In all honesty my rankings are really just to see what everyone else thinks. I learn a lot on here.

Yeah, it is a discussion board and that’s what ranking lists generate. I’m with you on that. I’m more familiar with the 14th than I am the 13th but I have seen Corbin over the summer and they look able and ready to defend their 13th region title. They lost one girl to graduation but have picked up another through transfer that’s just as good, from what one of their fans told me at a summer game. North, South and Bell should be good as well, and Jackson County is no pushover, they have one of the tallest teams in the region. Their center is 6’5 and they have another girl 6’. Knox will be good too, and may have the best player in the region with 5’9 Halle Collins, only a sophomore. 
Perry should be very good in the 14th with most of their players back from last year and the pickup of Kylie Gayheart. They are going to be guard heavy for sure but do have some size to go with the guards. 
Leslie also has most of their team returning. They were a semifinalist regional team last season and are well capable of making another run at the title this season. I’m not sure if they have added any transfers or not. Owsley returns 4 starters, (Smith, Terry, Lynch, and Murray) from their region runner-up team and have picked up 2 eighth graders that should be a big help. They don’t play like 8th graders and their AAU team won a Freshman championship in Myrtle Beach a few weeks ago. 
Letcher is defending champion and although they have lost some key players they are still Letcher and will be right in the mix for the title with Couch and others.
I’ve heard Knott has lost several good players through transfer and I don’t know how good they will be. I know Owsley played them in summer ball and won by around 20, but summer ball is not a good indicator of anything due to some teams not having all players or coaches experimenting with different lineups, etc.