On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor and Jim Taylor are joined by Glen Cook and Bill Breeden for our annual holiday show.

Happy holidays!

Ty Taylor is joined by IHSA Assistant Executive Director Sam Knox, who oversees football, to discuss this week's announcement of the IHSA football playoffs expanding and the season moving up a week.

They discuss what the addition of 128 teams to the postseason aims to fix, if it will be successful in doing so, why the proposal passed, the feedback the IHSA has initially received, the impact the Sports Advisory Committee (SMAC's) non-endorsement had on the propsal still being able to be voted on, if this is a step to all schools qualifying for the playoffs in the future, the possibility of doing away with a north/south split in the playoff brackets, if there will be change to the postseason seeding procedure, and more.

On Sportsline this week, Ty Taylor and Jim Taylor were joined in-studio by Sherrard boys basketball coach Alex Johnson and Mike Hutchins Holiday Classic Tournament Director Eric Hutchins to preview this year's field and reveal the bracket for the 2025 event.

Then, Ty talks with Byron boys basketball coach Matt Huels (44:23), Princeton boys basketball coach Jason Smith (55;19), and Annawan boys basketball coach Alex Coppejans (1:02:50).

Ty and Jim close the show by looking ahead to the tournament and reacting to the local boys and girls basketball sub-sectional assignments, which were released this week. (1:15:16)