Nixa will attempt to strike Gold and set records in the 71st edition of the Greenwood Blue and Gold Tournament.
The No. 1-seeded Eagles will need four wins in four days of high school boys basketball to help coach Jay Osborne become the all-time winningest coach in the history of the traditional holiday tournament. Nixa's coachholds 62 Blue and Gold Tournament victories, which puts him two wins behind all-time leader Steve Hunter’s 64 wins.
Additionally, should Osborne coach the Eagles to a championship, he would tie Russ Kaminsky’s all-time mark of eight Blue and Gold championships.
Osborne knows it won’t be easy for Nixa to win four games in four consecutive days in the Gold Division.