Tony Kays never showed any sign of panic last Wednesday. Not once. Not even for a nanosecond.
“He kept telling us, 'We can still do this,'” Anderson County senior Kali Whiteside said.
Indeed.
All season long, the Lady Bearcats had been considered one of the state's best teams. After a monstrous December, Anderson moved up to No. 2 in the state and earned the tag as the team to beat in the Eighth Region. Yet, there the Lady Bearcats were, staring at a 10-point deficit with 90 seconds to play.