At Bartlett, winning district basketball titles is twice as nice.

Both the boys' and girls' teams won championships in the first postseason tournament of the season, and as a result, both teams will have No. 1 seeds for the upcoming regional. And both coaches — Dion Real and Wes Shappley, respectively — used the same adjective to describe their teams.

Tough.

Shappley’s girls held off a determined Collierville team, 51-42, using a key fourth-quarter stretch to put away the Dragons. Real’s boys got a big game from R’Chaun King to down Cordova, 65-59, in the third meeting of the season between Tennessee’s top Class 4A teams.

Both Bartlett and Cordova have had a spell at number one, but finishing the season on top will be, in a word, tough. Stay tuned.

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