24-25 Season - Early Look

With the new rules?
It will now be predominantly transfers, not move-ins

A couple of coaches who are very close to 2A boys say Dale will be right in the middle of the hunt again in 2025

What Dale brings back: Forsyth #3, Kelly #10, Edmonson #1, Chambers #24 and Higdon #4.

Still a very talented squad for sure.

If what I’m hearing comes true Pocola will be very very talented next season……the portal is looking to be very good for them 👀

Whether or not anyone can challenge Dale is yet to be seen.  Dale returns the core of their team, and I would anticipate several guys stepping up their production with last year's seniors moving on.  They have talent, size, depth, shooting, and team discipline.  They will remain the top dog in 2A this year despite losing Dayton and Deken.    

Everyone else is chasing and has question marks.  Even Pocola has some work to do in replacing Garrett Scott.  It is obviously a good starting point to build around one of the best athletes in the state in Dakotah Terrell, but they need perimeter playmaking and scoring to replace what they lost.  Hooker will be solid. Hennessey and Preston have to replace a lot of production, but have players in place to re-load.  
  
There will be some re-classifying of schools for basketball when the fall comes around. The football class assignments are out, but not basketball. Combine those with possible summer transfers, and you could easily have a few teams that pop up as legitimate top 10 threats.  The summer league and camp season in June will reveal quite a bit.  One team to keep an eye on would be Rejoice if they drop down from 3A. They played mostly sophomores this year and will promote up some talented freshmen.  

Like I said we will wait and see what comes true when it comes to the summer transfer window, but if what I am hearing currently happens then Pocola will be the clear cut favorite to play Dale again in the finals! Replacing Scott becomes a lot easier due to portal season…..they will need to get someone to step up and hit some outside shots when needed. They are going to be huge though! Lots of time between now and then though so things can always change!

On the other note if they split 2a basketball into 2 separate divisions that will be a complete joke. Why try to fix something that isn’t broke? The only thing I would implement if I was the OSSAA would be districts in the regular season like football!

They aren't splitting classes. A coach put that out there but there is zero to that right now. I would be shocked beyond words if anything ever came from it. No one is splitting so people need to relax and put that rumor to bed.

Splitting the class in basketball is silly and doesn’t make sense. Many of the top teams in small schools can compete with the most 6A schools. Heck 2A Dale won the TOC not long ago

Kentucky has 1 state champion, period. For all classes. Can you imagine, Broken Arrow vs. Lone Wolf as a state final?

They still do state championships like in the movie Hoosiers. Wow.