GREENE CENTRA L was the last non-Wilson team to reach the boys championship game, losing 52-39 to Hunt in 2006. SOUTHERN NASH will attempt to become the first non-Wilson team to win a boys tournament championship since C.B. The fewest points (69) in a final, by far, was Fike’s 35-34 defeat of Hunt in 2005.
THE 2008 CHAMPIONSHIP featured 151 total points in Fike’s 92-59 conquest of Hunt and tied the 1988 championship game as the highest scoring ECC final. There have been six one-point finals, including last year, and 23 have been decided by five or fewer points.īEDDINGFIELD was the first Wilson team to win the tournament when it beat Fike in the 1979 title game.įOUR CHAMPIONSHIP games have gone to overtime with three needing two extra periods to settle matters. THE RECORD for biggest margin of victory in a title game is now Hunt’s after beating Beddingfield by 37 points in 2018, erasing Fike’s 92-59 ripping of Hunt in 2008. HUNT-FIKE has been the championship game 14 times overall.
HUNT extended its championship game appearance streak to 16 years. The first two ECC tourneys were held in Wilson Gymnasium on the Atlantic Christian, now Barton College, campus. HUNT is hosting the tournament for the 15th time, one more than Fike and Beddingfield. Fike has won it at home seven times while Beddingfield has done it four times each. THE HOST TEAM has won the boys tournament title 16 times in 43 years, most recently by Hunt in 2019, the fifth time the Warriors have done it. THE WARRIORS have three-peated twice, 1995-2019, while Fike accomplished the feat from 1986-88. HUNT passed Fike for most championships with its 15th title in 2019. Joyner and Tychaun Clay made the unit in 2019 as sophomores. THREE Hunt players made the all-tournament team in the past – senior Davon Jones did it as a freshman in 2018 while classmates C.J. SMITHFIELD-SELMA is next with a string of six appearances that ended in 2019. GREENE CENTRAL was the invited guest school more than any other, participating in 16 straight tournaments from 1997 to 2012. SOUTHERN NASH is making its debut as the guest school, the 26th boys team and 23rd girls team to play in the tournament. Most Valuable Player of the 2019 tournament. SHAQ WADE of Hunt was named the Harvey Reid Jr. For the first time since it began in 1976, the tournament was not played in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.ĭECEMBER 18 is the earliest date the tournament has started, with the 2017 tournament as the only one to be held before Christmas. T his year marks the 45th rendition of the Wilson holiday boys basketball tournament, formerly the Eastern Carolina Classic and Farris & Farris Holiday Tournament, and now the Farris & Thomas Holiday Tournament.
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