For coach Matt Hoppe, heart attack alters view of TSSAA boys state basketball
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CLARKSVILLE — Boyd-Buchanan coach Matt Hoppe noticed a change this week. Not just because the upper-third of his heart isn’t pumping as well as he hopes it will a year from now. Not just because he wears a defibrillator and monitor around his chest everywhere he goes, including during the DII-A TSSAA boys basketball state tournament semifinals. He is seeing life from a completely different vantage point these days. Hoppe, a Brentwood Academy graduate who previously coached at BA and Clarksville Academy, suffered a major heart attack in January and returned for the first time to coach Boyd-Buchanan in a 61-57 semifinal loss to BGA on...