Borna: Wasn't it A, AA, AAA?

wellllll not that I am old or anything but when I was a kid keeping shot charts and getting ready to start kindergarten there was only A and AA. Tipp City went to regionals vs London when I was in 4th grade then again vs Lockland. By the time we went to state in 1971 they had voted that year to expand to AAA. Not that I would remember the minutia of basketball or anything. I was following basketball in Dayton area where my pops had coached and ran a scouting service and back home in Indiana where my Gramps and the rest of the Fam lived. FOr the fact checkers. Have a look at the history of hoops in OHIO . OCF....you got a really bad memory. No way did you see an Athens team in the 60's play AAA ball.

http://www.ohsaa.org/sports/bk/boys/BBSKAllTimeResults.pdf

BTC -- The gym at Canal Winchester has a big wooden board on the wall which keeps a running tally of all time basketball wins for the top 10 programs. Based on that, I would guess Newark as the school that's won at each level. Middletown or Barberton would be my next guess.

Borna -- the Southwest District, with which you're familiar, still uses neutral sites for sectionals. The Central District did this until three seasons ago when sectional games switched to the home floor of the highest seed. District semis and finals are still held on neutral floors. In Division 1, all games were played at the Fairgrounds Coliseum through 2007. Lagging attendance and exorbitant rental increases, pushed the district to move sectional games out and eventually district semis out of The Barn.For a few years, though, sectionals were still neutral sites. This season, due to scheduling conflicts there, the district finals will not be played there. In terms of assignments, it looks like the Southwest Districts has an open draw for the northern schools to fill three and the southern schools to fill five sectionals which feed into four districts. Those district champions all play and you always get a Cincinnati/Dayton D-1 team in the Final Four. The Central District does an open draw where all teams are seeded and place themselves on the various sectional/district brackets. In Division 1, there will be a regional champ from this District as there are four districts feeding into the regional. Both Worthington schools are Division 1 and chose to place themselves in separate sectionals/districts. The three Dublin schools, though, close to place themselves in the same district and two are in the same sectional. Other divisions here don't have enough schools to create four districts. In Division 2, there are two districts. One feeds into the Athens Regional and the other into the Dayton Regional. This year -- and most years -- the top two seeds place themselves in the opposite half of the same district bracket. They choose the one which feeds into Athens which is perceived to be weaker than the one feeding into Dayton.

Growing up in Columbus several decades ago we got an Indianapolis TV station on local cable (QUBE for you oldtimers). Two programs I remember from that station - Saturday morning 'rasslin with Dick the Bruiser and Bobo Brazil and IHSAA basketball tournament games. Correct me if I'm wrong Borna, but didn't the district and/or regional final four end with a championship AND a consolation game?

reading that list of all time champs .... a couple of things jump out...

it is amazing how many times Huggins Pops at Gnad. Indian Valley SOuth is on there.

also ...one of my faves Cleveland EasTech.....the scarabs...how many times they were runner up.

Bunk adams is on there coaching Toledo maybe Scott

fascinating for us old hoops junkies

borna and BTC, what confused me was that Athens was AAA at the time in some sports. Upon review, you are right that AA was the top classification at the time in basketball and most other sports. My basic point was that Athens was at the time in the top classification and competed very well in basketball, and at least on an acceptable level in football. BTC, you are right about me thinking of the Columbus South loss, because a friend of mine was the guy who made the potentially winning shot that bounced a few times on the rim and then out as the clock expired.

How many state titles has Portsmouth won and in what divisions? I remember in 1978 they won the AA title.

Cleveland Villa Angela St. Joe, I think, is the team to win all the divisions. I know they have been Div. I champs and most recently Div. 4 champs. They still get a lot of Div. I scholarship players across the Cleveland area like they always have even though they have gone through tough times and a major decrease in enrollment. It is a shame as Div. 4 schools have to play what is essentially a team that should be competing in Div. I!

Borna, as you probably remember, we used to play a consolation game in the regionals of the NCAA tourney also. I remember after losing to Purdue with Rick Mount and Billy Keller on their run to the final 4, we had to play one of those games against Issel and Coach Rupp before the ride home. The Wildcats did not seem very interested in playing that game and "The Baron" was on them hard. He was not happy !

This be correct. I know small schools in the Eastern District have played at neutral sites for many, many years. It helps that they are all so close together and the gyms they play at (usually New Philadelphia, Dover, Meadowbrook, OU Eastern and John Glenn) are big enough to hold two small school crowds. They wait until regionals for the "big-time" either down at the Convo or up in Canton at the Fieldhouse.

Interesting thread 105 over on huddle regarding IV
http://www.jjhuddle.com/forums/forum/high-school-sports-t...

Yeah IV has been jumping in and out of conferences for years over there. First they thought they were too big for the IVC and PAC 7, so they joined the ECOL and got hammered night in, night out. I agree with most of the people saying it will be a good thing for everyone. Travel will almost be a non-issue with all of these schools relatively close together. I think the furthest travel for anyone in the league is about 1.5 hours, which was always normal for us small schoolers.