One and done: Girls' round of 64

After a busy Tuesday night of action, most of the state's girls' basketball regionals are now on hold until Friday. The regions are mercifully no longer listed here in order of how the winners will be bracketed in the 2012 Houchens Industries/KHSAA Girls' Sweet Sixteen® State Basketball Tournament, and the Kentucky desk apologizes for the nuisance that approach brought to the lives of itself and other fans of Commonwealth hoops. Instead, here are the regions that play today, followed in numerical order by those that do not.

Sixth Region, at Bellarmine University's Knights Hall in Louisville--Both the Sixth and Seventh regions play their semis at Bellarmine today, so the Kentucky desk hopes The Courier-Journal's Jason Frakes enjoys his Wednesday afternoon and evening of free hot dogs. The second of today's games, at 4:15 Central, is a rematch of last year's Sixth title game, Louisville Butler vs. Mount Washington Bullitt East. But the first game, at 2:30 Central, features the Sixth's top-rated team, Louisville Mercy, last year's Seventh runnerup, against Louisville Holy Cross.

Seventh Region, at Bellarmine's Knights Hall--Kentucky's top-ranked team and 2011 state runnerup, Louisville Manual, plays Louisville Christian Academy at 7:15 p.m. Central.

10th Region, at Campbell County Middle School in Alexandria--The defending region champ, Montgomery County, plays Bracken County, a team it beat in Brooksville by 16 on Feb. 3. The first game pairs Mason County and Campbell County, which knocked off 2011 10th runnerup Winchester George Rogers Clark. To get ready for tonight's action, the Kentucky desk (and, presumably, its main man Darius Miller) is chilling this midday to Maysville's WFTM 95.9 FM, which just played the outstanding "Smooth Operator" by Sade.

And the idling tournaments, ...

First Region, at Murray State University's CFSB Center.

Second Region, at Christian County High School in Hopkinsville.

Third Region, at Owensboro Sportcenter.

Fourth Region, at Western Kentucky University's E.A. Diddle Arena in Bowling Green.

Fifth Region, at Central Hardin High School in Elizabethtown.

Eighth Region, at Anderson County High School in Lawrenceburg.

Ninth Region, at Northern Kentucky University's Bank of Kentucky Center in Highland Heights.

11th Region, at Eastern Kentucky University's Alumni Coliseum in Richmond.

12th Region, at Lincoln County High School in Stanford.

13th Region, at Corbin's The Arena.

14th Region, at Breathitt County High School in Jackson.

15th Region, at Pikeville's East Kentucky Exposition Center--The 2011 regional runnerup, Betsy Layne, was defeated by Pikeville, 61-49, last night. As is the case with the Second Region, neither of the 2011 title-game participants advanced to this year's 15th Region semifinals.

16th Region, semifinals and final at Morehead State University's Johnson Arena.