Region 8-AAAA Basketball Semi-Finals Today

The Stephens County Indian boys’ basketball team will take its next step down the post-season road later today.

At 5:30 p.m. today, the Stephens County Indians will play Madison County in a Region 8-AAAA boys’ basketball tournament semi-final game at Jefferson High School.

Madison County enters the tournament as the second seed, while the Indians are the third seed.

The Red Raiders had a first-round bye Tuesday, while Stephens County beat Jefferson to earn a semi-final berth.

Stephens County and Madison County split their games during the region schedule this season.

The winner of this game will play the winner of the other boys semi-final game between top-seeded St. Pius and fourth-seed North Oconee in Saturday’s boys’ basketball region championship game, while the two teams that lose today will play Saturday in a third-place game.

Today is also the girls’ Region 8-AAAA semi-finals where Jefferson will play Madison County and St. Pius will play North Oconee.

The winners of those two games will play in Saturday’s girls’ championship, while the losers of those games will play each other for third place.

WNEG and wnegradio.com will air today’s Stephens County-Madison County boys’ Region 8-AAAA basketball tournament semi-final game.

Air time will be about 5:20 p.m. with tip-off set for 5:30 p.m.