Practice has started.. who are some of the contenders...

[KG (Lan)]

5A
Dorman (Zach Butler is back instate and they return talented young group from last season)...

Sumter solid group very aggressive...

West Florence added a transfer and returns couple solid guys from last season..

I think upstate is Dormans to lose, don't see much push back from any other teams in this classification in the upstate.

4A
Southpointe graduated a lot last season but returns good Jr class and added a really good transfer...

Ridgeview has a few pieces.

AC Flora returns very solid group

Lower Richland returns very solid group

Wilson added a transfer to an already solid group a returners

3A no clue

2A
Gray Academy (talent wise clear cut fav... if something goes wrong here then they have a problem.. best recruiting class of any instate school (better recruiting class than CofC, SC and Clemson)

Keenan added Simmons back (not sure why he left?)

Andrew Jackson .. coach does more with less and kids play their rolls (never count those teams out... ie Byrnes from last season)

I'm Sure there will be a lowerstate team that will show up in Columbia with bunch of 6'5 kids that are raw and extremely athletic...

1A no clue

** I'm sure I'm missing a "no brainer" type team...

 

[twoway]

In 5A Dutch Fork and Dorman may be the best two teams out there but I don't know anything about the lower state teams.

Totally agree with you on Gray, don't know how they are allowed in the High School league.
Also all of those Sumter area teams are going to be very competitive.