Tuesday will mark the busiest night so far on the hardwood, with 16 matchups around northeast Georgia.
All but three involve region games, with some crucial early-season matchups.
One of the more interesting matchups of the night on the girls side will be the Chestatee girls (3-3, 0-1 Region 6-3A) traveling to Class 3A eighth-ranked White County (6-2, 1-0 Region 6-3A). However, the biggest matchup on the girls has Class 3A No. 1-ranked Pickens (5-0, 1-0 Region 6-3A) heading to No. 11 Lumpkin County (4-2, 1-0 Region 6-3A).
On the boys side, the biggest matchup will have Class 5A No. 3 Habersham Central (6-1, 0-0 Region 8-5A) taking on No. 8 Winder-Barrow (8-1, 0-0 Region 8-5A) in both teams' Region 8-5A openers.
In Region 7-5A for the boys, No. 2-ranked Gainesville (4-3, 2-0 Region 7-5A) will play host to Roswell (4-4, 1-2 Region 7-5A). In between the girls and boys games. Gainesville will officially rename the gym "Davis-Hill Gym" after former coaches Jerry Davis and Manson Hill.
Davis led the Red Elephants to back-to-back state titles in 1983 and 1984. They were state runners-up in 1982.
Hill led the Lady Red Elephants to state titles in 1994 and again in 2001, 2003, and 2004 in a second stint with the program.
Each coach will be in attendance
(See below for the full schedule of Friday's games.)
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL SCHEDULE FOR TUESDAY, Dec. 10
Apalachee at Jackson County, 6 p.m.*
Bethlehem Christian at Lakeview Academy, 6 p.m.*
Buford at Central Gwinnett, 6 p.m.*
Cherokee Bluff at Banks County, 6 p.m.
Chestatee at White County, 6 p.m.*
Dawson County at GAC, 6 p.m.*
East Hall at Commerce, 6 p.m.
East Jackson at Monroe Area, 6 p.m.
Flowery Branch at Walnut Grove, 6 p.m.*
LFO at Union County, 6 p.m.*
Lambert at North Forsyth, 6 p.m.*
Madison County at East Forsyth, 6 p.m.*
North Hall at Johnson, 6 p.m.*
Pickens at Lumpkin County, 6 p.m.*
Rabun County at Towns County, 6 p.m.
Roswell at Gainesville, 6 p.m.*
Winder-Barrow at Habersham Central, 6 p.m.*
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