Winter Storm Causes Turmoil In High School Basketball Season

GIBSON COUNTY, Tenn. – As the clock is ticking down to zero on this year’s high school basketball season, we checked in on one local girls’ basketball program.

The Gibson County Pioneers are going into a stretch of three games in four days to end their regular season after having 15 days with no team activity due to the winter storm last month.

They’ll head straight into district tournaments next week on little rest.

Lady Pioneers Head Coach Mitch Wilkins tells us what he thinks is the biggest challenge he’ll face this week as a coach.

“Is our conditioning getting back to anywhere close to where it’s supposed to be? That’ll be a challenge for us down the stretch to make sure we’re doing those things, but hopefully we’ll continue to pick up where we left off and finish our season well,” Wilkins said.

We also asked the players how they felt coming back after two weeks off the court.

“First we were gassed, a little tired. It took us two days to get back into shape,” said Senior Guard A’kira Riding.

This is not something that just happened to Gibson County High School’s basketball program.
Teams all across West Tennessee were out for roughly the same amount of time.

With postseason play right around the corner, these teams and programs will have to make some quick adjustments to get back into condition as the season wraps up at the end of the week.