Topic: Ohio High School Basketball: General News & Discussion

[moonloop]

Sports Illustrated had a pretty interesting article about this future number draft choice. I found it interesting on how the writer described the environment of NCH and the West End. I always consider NCH a Cincinnati neighborhood not it's own little town. Anyway if you like sports and Cincinnati getting some national ink here's the article.

High School Hoops: Talk of the Town

By George Dohrmann

It is the first Friday of the school year, the night of the opening football game, and the students of North College Hill (Ohio) High will soon slip out of modest brick houses and long stucco apartment complexes and walk to the stadium. O.J. Mayo and Bill Walker will not be among them, at least not yet. They are stealing away in an SUV, heading east and then south, nine miles, to a shabby section of Cincinnati.

Mayo and Walker are juniors at NCH and two of the top five basketball players in their class in the country. As they ride, they work their cellphones, reviewing the latest text messages from college recruiters. They look up occasionally to narrate the route. "As you get closer to downtown, it's a whole new world," Mayo says when the SUV leaves Interstate 75. Walker adds, "When we were here last Friday, we saw one girl go at another with a razor blade."

Full story text is available at
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/

[edale]

The writer makes NCH seem like a small town insted of calling it a suburb like it is. that sort of bothered me

[buildingcincinnati]

I agree with you moonloop that NCH always felt like a city neighborhood, with its gridded streets and inner-ring density.  A lot of articles make it sound like Mayberry.

Oh...NCH beat some team 138-34 yesterday.

[UncleRando]

Mayo headed to Southern Cal
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
November 16, 2006

O.J. Mayo, the former North College Hill basketball star who transferred to Huntington, W.Va., next will play for Southern California.

USC assistant Bob Cantu told the Associated Press the school received a signed letter of intent by fax Wednesday.

"It's the perfect situation," Mayo, a 6-foot-5 guard, told USA Today. "After (football) players like Reggie Bush and Matt Leinart, the school is ready for a player of my caliber."

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061116/SPT0301/611160341

[Magyar]

Who'd thunk it. This year's version of my Alma Maters basketball team is considered a favorite in the district basketball tourney?   Then again, they've twice as many games this season (17) than the boys team won in my 4 years of HS (9)
http://www.dispatch.com/prep/preps.php?story=dispatch/2007/02/28/20070228-F1-06.html

[ink]

Never heard of 'em.

[MuRrAy HiLL]

Division I
1) Lakewood St Edward (all but one win by double-digits, ranked #9 in the country)
2) Trotwood Madison
3) Toledo Libbey
4) Columbus Northland
5) Newark

Division II
1) Greenfield McClain
2) Tipp City Tippecanoe
3) Copley
4) Kettering Alter
5) Sandusky Perkins

Division III
1) Liberty-Benton
2) Dayton Oakwood
3) Sugarcreek Garaway
4) Rocky River Lutheran West
5) Archbold

Division IV
1) Russia
2) New Knoxville
3) Toledo Christian
4) McDonald
5) Harvest Prep

[Magyar]

Never heard of 'em.

There's plenty of locations in your neck of the woods that I've never heard of either.

[ColDayMan]

OAKWOOD?!?!?  BASKETBALL!??!

God, that area has changed!

[3231]

St. Eds is very impressive. Delvin Roe (junior) is a beast.

[Evergrey]

Wow, looks like Toledo has a lot of basketball talent.

[BallHatGuy]

On a unrealated note, my nephew is the heavyweight state champion!  But Lakewood St. Ed's kicked ass in the team state finals.  Nearly double the point total #2 Moeller.

[MuRrAy HiLL]

Tourney 2009:

One of two Cleveland area schools to make the final four.

Cleveland Central Catholic boys basketball team reaps benefits of clean living
Posted by jmorona March 26, 2009 07:39AM

Anton Grady throws down monster dunks and swats away opponents' shots.

The 6-8 sophomore doesn't look down, though, on a weekly task of scrubbing the locker room shower walls, the same ones he and his Cleveland Central Catholic teammates painted a deep blue.


More at Cleveland.com http://blog.cleveland.com/tlr/2009/03/cleveland_central_catholic_boy.html

[Daytonnatian]

Didn't realize how well the Dayton area was represented. Cool.

[MuRrAy HiLL]

2008-2009 State Champs:

Division I -- Columbus Northland
Division II -- Akron St. Vincent St. Mary
Division III -- Cleveland Cental Catholic (from Slavic Village neighborhoods FYI)
Dvision IV -- Oak Hill

[airforce_jm]

Wow I didn't know Oak Hill was that good. They were the ones who took my former high school out of the tourneys.