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The Title Returns

Twenty-five wins and Greenbrier’s first boys basketball district championship in twenty-eight years.

TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS LATER

The district title comes back

The Greenbrier Athletic Hall of Fame records the 1974–75 Bobcats as District Champions, the first boys basketball district title at GHS in 28 years. The Hall also records 25 wins, then the second-highest win total by a Greenbrier boys team.

25Hall-recorded wins
1975District champions
28 yearsSince previous boys district title
Tommy MasonHead coach

A milestone, not a state berth

TSSAA's championship history lists Greenbrier boys basketball state-tournament appearances only in 1930 and 1984. That makes 1974–75 important for exactly what the Hall says it was: a long-awaited district championship and a 25-win season.

TSSAA BOYS HISTORY ↗

Read the Hall team page

The Hall preserves the team photograph, roster and the 28-year district-title context.

HALL TEAM STORY ↗

Hall roster

  • Chip Brake · manager
  • Benton Garrison · 44
  • Kenny Cothron · 24
  • Ricky Addison · 40
  • Mark Miller · 50
  • Ben Morris · 20
  • Tim Franklin · 14
  • Mike Cothron · 22
  • Dennis Byrum · 32
  • Jeff Lovell · 12
  • Randy Scott · 10
  • Terry Savage · 34
  • Tommy Mason · head coach

Where it sits in the boys story

The 1975 title falls between Greenbrier's first state-tournament run in 1930 and the 1984 return to state. It gives the half-century between those trips a championship marker of its own.

TWO TRIPS TO STATE →

Nine years later

The 1983–84 Bobcats would win district, region and sub-state championships and finally return Greenbrier to the state tournament.

1983–84 · BACK TO STATE →