Madisonville-North Hopkins owns the top seeds and homecourt advantage for the 7th District basketball tournaments, which begin the last week of February.
Dates and times have now been finalized.
The girls will play first, with the semifinals set for Monday, Feb. 26.
No. 1 seed Madisonville will take on No 4 Dawson Springs at 6:00 that night while No. 2 Hopkins County Central faces No. 3 Caldwell County at 7:30.
The girls’ championship game is set for Thursday, Feb. 29, at 6 p.m.
The Lady Storm has taken two of the last three championships, but the Lady Maroons have won three of the past five.
Caldwell’s girls last won the district title in 2018.
Dawson has never won a girls’ district championship. The Lady Panthers were last runners-up in 2018.
The boys’ semifinals will be played on Tuesday, Feb. 27.
Top-seeded Madisonville faces fourth-seeded Hopkins Central at 6:00. No. 2 Caldwell County and No. 3 Dawson Springs will play the 7:30 game.
The boys’ championship contest is scheduled for Friday, March 1, at 6 p.m.
The Maroons have won the last 14 7th District basketball championships. However, Hopkins Central upended Madisonville the last time the two teams met Feb. 5 in Maroon Gym.
The Storm won its last district crown in 2009.
Since being moved to the 7th District from the 5th District prior to the 2005-06 season, Caldwell’s boys have won just one district title. That came in 2007.
Dawson Springs hasn’t won a boys’ district championship since 1997. The Panthers are looking for their first trip to the regional tourney since 2017.
District champions and runners-up advance to the 2nd Region tournaments the following week.
The 2024 boys’ regional will be at Hopkinsville High School while the girls’ regional will be played at Trigg County.
