So let's look at these horrible numbers that SE Ohio has, yeah they have not fared great, but let's look at who is beating them. The majority is going to be private schools or schools who do not play on the same level of Traditional public schools.
2017 - II Columbus Eastmoor over Vinton County (Eastmoor CB 24)
2017 - III Fairland over Hiland
2017 - IV Wellington over Portsmouth Clay
2017 - 1/2, two losses to a NON-traditional public school, a boarding school (State Champs), and 1 win over a traditional power public school.
2016 - II - Semi's - John Glenn (State Champs) over Vinton County
2016 - III - Lynchburg Clay over Marion Pleasant
2016 - IV - Semi's SE went 0-2 losing to Africentric and Wellington
2016 - 1/4 - losing to Public State Champion, beating a public, and losing to a boarding school and a Columbus NON-Traditional magnet
2015 - II - Semi's Walnut Ridge over Unioto - Unioto 1/13 from line in final minutes.
2015 - III - Eastmoor over Portsmouth
2015 - IV - Harvest Prep and Africentric over Peebles and Trimble
2015 - 0/4 - lost to 1 traditional public school, 2 NON-Traditional public, and 1 Private Basketball Factory
The list is long, the thing is at this level and what feeds into the Athens Regional is not average teams, or traditional public school teams. Instead, it's been a collection of non-traditional and private schools that are basketball factories. All of those schools have much higher CB numbers, in fact 4 of the schools on that list have been bumped a division since CB came into effect, while the CB numbers in SE Ohio are non-factors. So we want to talk about the record? Fine, let's also talk about the teams they are playing.
Since 2000, the SE District is 17 Wins 11 Losses in Regional Final games. Against other Districts in those Finals the SE District is 11 Wins and 6 Losses. Not nearly as bad as you would like to make SE District Basketball out to be.
Last Edited: 1/10/2020 12:36:37 PM by BillyTheCat