Class 2, District 14 is packed.
The district basketball tournament, which will get under way on Saturday at Sweet Springs, features just one team out of eight boys basketball teams that has not won 10 games, while three — Sacred Heart, Green Ridge and Sweet Springs — have won at least 16.
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