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Adam Johnson Talks MHSAA Basketball Tournament · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Adam Johnson, general manager of the MHSA, kind of take some time away.
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  I know he is running and gunning as always. Adam Wilkomins or how
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  are you Jay, Great to be with you. Absolutely, it's a lot
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  open here at Mississippi Coliseum. But if you like basketball, this is the
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  place you want to be right now. It's wild a lot of them being
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  played, a lot of really good basketball being played before we get to tomorrow
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  through Saturday. Take us through how the week's being. Obviously a lot of
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  basketball. We talk about this. I was talking to Sam Williams out of
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  Brandon last week about this is you know, he agreed, this could be
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  the hardest tournament of all the tournaments that you play in high school sports in
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  the state of Mississippi to just hey, congratulations, you get to the big,
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  big house. Now you got to pay all week long. So talk
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  a little bit about how the week's been. Absolutely well, even taking a
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  step back past the week, you get the first couple of rounds and last
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  week quarterfinal sites that we hosted a sixth site throughout the state. So you
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  know, you're on a neutral floor in the in the quarterfinals, so that's
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  difficult in a neutral site. You get to semifinals here that are played starting
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  Monday. We tipped off at nine o'clock Monday morning. We played eight games
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  on Monday, we played eight games on Tuesday, and we are now in
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  game number five of eight today. So then we will be done with all
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  of our semifinals this season except for one session of semifinals we'll play starting at
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  nine o'clock tomorrow morning. That'll be seven A Boys and Girls Semifinals, and
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  then we'll take a little bit of a deep breath in the afternoon starting about
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  three o'clock and at six o'clock. Finals will tip off with one A Boys
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  and Girls tomorrow night, and then we'll have six six games of finals on
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  Friday and six games of finals on Saturday. So a lot of basketball has
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  been played, but there is still a lot of basketball to be played.
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  Yeah, it looks like if I'm on and of course I know this is
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  not in real time, just because you guys have to update as close.
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  You've got basically all the championships set up to this point except for four,
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  six and seven A. Is that correct. Let's see, I'll tell you
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  exactly. We've got everything except for six and seventy four A is that that
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  finished a little while ago, concluded with Raymond claiming the final spot in in
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  class for A boys, they will play McComb and then Tishimingo County and Morton
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  for A girls. Uh. Those are the two sets of semi finals that
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  we played earlier today in and knocked out. So we got six and seven
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  a lefts to be decided. Adam Johnson, general manager of the mhs A
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  on your radio, we're gonna tell you about tickets, how to get down
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  there. What's going on? Of course, championships going on right now.
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  You got the uh you know the semi is going on. Championship start tomorrow
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  night, Adam. A lot of familiar names. I mean you look at
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  this Boonville, Boonville boys and girls. I mean they just absolutely they just
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  kind of you know, have a reservation. It seems like Ingemar. You
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  look at Canton, Yazoo City, Laurel Lumberton, you know, Blue Mountain
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  making a trip now Biggersville. Absolute A lot of familiar faces and then some
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  new ones as well. There is you know, that's the fun thing you
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  talked about being that tough. We've seen some some perennial ones that you'd think
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  go down as well. Chakshaws Central Girls got beating overtime. It's a little
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  bit of a shock this morning Madison Belle missed basketball, you know, and
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  her team taking an exit a little earlier than they probably anticipated. So you
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  know, that's the thing about it. You get down here, anything can
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  happen with that. A couple overtime games. We've had a couple of those
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  games that really weren't even close from the tip off, But that's kind of
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  the way it goes. You get down here and you get hot, and
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  you get in a new building, and you know, anything can happen.
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  So that's part of the excitement here. As you know, you've got some
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  some familiar teams, some new teams, but sometimes it's the center Cinderella that
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  comes in and maybe nobody expects to get hot down here, but take on
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  the title. So excited to see what happens the next couple of days.
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  You know, I tell people all the time, this is my favorite event
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  that we run. It is a long, long week, forty two games
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  of basketball over six days, which we used to say it was a lot
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  when it was thirty six games of basketball over six days, but now that
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  we've gone to seven eight at forty two games, but it is just electric
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  all day long. We laugh about it. It's like being in a casino.
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  You get in here and watch basketball and you have no idea what time
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  it is anymore because you just get immersed into basketball. But it is a
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  lot of fun. It's been a great atmosphere. We've got this great crowd.
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  There's been not only a lot of people, but energetic crowds that are
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  really into it. You might even be able to hear it. I'm out
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  in the hallway. You probably hear it a little bit in the background as
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  we've got a good cud in there right now. So definitely encourage folks if
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  you listening, come out to the Mississippi Coliseum to catch six A basketball this
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  evening. We've got girls semi finals at six day going on right now,
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  and then boys will start at seven o'clock. Will be our first boys game
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  tonight, and then seven A semifinals in the morning, and then we'll start
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  playing championships tomorrow night. Adam, how can people get tickets if they want
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  more information on the event? Obviously it's at the Missippi Coliseum, but as
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  far as you know, just parking an event, just getting there, getting
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  in all of that good stuff. Absolutely no charge for parking. So come
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  on out Missisippi Coliseum. Drive around the backside. So if you come in
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  on Pas Street, come around the building, that's the doors that we use
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  to come in. Tickets for fifteen dollars you can buy at the gate.
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  I know line's got really long. Last night we had a huge crowd here
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  between Provine and Canton, boys and girls both being here. So we would
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  do encourage go online to go fan and buy your tickets digitally. Go be
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  on your phone. All you do is show them. They activate them right
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  there coming in the door, so it saves you a lot of hassle.
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  That's the easiest way. If you're not able to get out, then right
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  now on the NFHS network, which you can go to m I S s
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  hs A A T dot tv miss HSAA dot tv, you can watch the
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  games there. They would be televised, beginning with the finals on Thursday night
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  and then all day Friday and Saturday. Of course you can catch them Thursday
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  night, Friday and Saturday right here on the ESPN radio and catch up catch
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  up with us on social media, Go Facebook, Twitter. Our social media
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  team is doing a great job of pushing out content. Of course, SB
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  Live Sports is here covering all the games of Official Media Park, so you
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  can catch up with stories, highlights, and scores live scoring on FB Live
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  as well. Adam, appreciate your time as always. Look, we appreciate
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  what you guys do. It's been a fun week. I know it'll be
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  a great weekend of championship basketball. Look, we'll see you down there tomorrow.
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  Absolutely cool to see you here, Jake. Thank you