Oldham wins the game to advance to the District Championship vs North Oldham

OC completely dominated the paint, and South Oldham struggled to hit a shot all night. Marcum from OC with a career night, not sure how many he ended up with.

Henry Marcum is a great kid, happy for him!

Congrats to OC and I can’t wait for the matchup next season with mostly everyone returning for both teams. Side note: I think I possibly saw the worst over and back No call of all time.

Amburgey will be hard to replace.

Marcum with (unofficially) 8 points and 18 rebounds.   Great night for the 6'6" sophomore, who has largely held back and deferred to the older players this year.   He had nearly half of Oldham's 40 rebounds.  

Oldham outrebounded South - unofficially - 40-17.

Kudos to Christian Veirs of South.   He practically put the Dragons on his back and did everything he could to will South to the upset win.

2 hours ago, Colonel-Rebel Fan said:

Amburgey will be hard to replace.

Is there any update on his injury? He didn’t look very good after the game, and was favoring it every second in the 2nd half.

5 hours ago, Adrian Woj Burner said:

Is there any update on his injury? He didn’t look very good after the game, and was favoring it every second in the 2nd half.

I’ll try to find out.

Oldham was absolutely dominant on the Boards. Impressive. 

6-31.  That's the only stat you need to see.  South Oldham's 3 point shooting.  In their 6 game winning streak leading into the district tournament, South had made double digit threes in each game. And while there were some bad opponents in that list of 6, it also includes Desales, which is a top-20ish team, and Iroquois, a decent 6th region team.  You can't get obliterated on the glass and have any chance of winning if you're 6-31 from three.  Doesn't require much more thinking than that.......

50 minutes ago, DontheJewler said:

Oldham was absolutely dominant on the Boards. Impressive. 

Yes.  Not sure I've seen a team dominate like that on the boards.  South's point guard led them with either 5 (khsaa) or 10 (hudl) rebounds (someone was bad wrong in their counting, heh), and no one else had more than 3.  You probably don't want someone in your secondary leading the team in tackles, you probably don't want your point guard leading the team in rebounds.  By that margin, anyway.  At times, OC seemed to be playing volleyball over the rim.  Back and forth.  Back and forth.  Burnside, at 6'5, would have helped some, but really that was just a matter of OC strength vs a South weakness; South counters that not by rebounding significantly better, but by making 3s.  Which didn't happen.

1 minute ago, Mojocat said:

Yes.  Not sure I've seen a team dominate like that on the boards.  South's point guard led them with either 5 (khsaa) or 10 (hudl) rebounds (someone was bad wrong in their counting, heh), and no one else had more than 3.  You probably don't want someone in your secondary leading the team in tackles, you probably don't want your point guard leading the team in rebounds.  By that margin, anyway.  At times, OC seemed to be playing volleyball over the rim.  Back and forth.  Back and forth.  Burnside, at 6'5, would have helped some, but really that was just a matter of OC strength vs a South weakness; South counters that not by rebounding significantly better, but by making 3s.  Which didn't happen.

Normally Hudl is the one way off. 

1 hour ago, Mojocat said:

Yes.  Not sure I've seen a team dominate like that on the boards.  South's point guard led them with either 5 (khsaa) or 10 (hudl) rebounds (someone was bad wrong in their counting, heh), and no one else had more than 3.  You probably don't want someone in your secondary leading the team in tackles, you probably don't want your point guard leading the team in rebounds.  By that margin, anyway.  At times, OC seemed to be playing volleyball over the rim.  Back and forth.  Back and forth.  Burnside, at 6'5, would have helped some, but really that was just a matter of OC strength vs a South weakness; South counters that not by rebounding significantly better, but by making 3s.  Which didn't happen.

I've always had some doubts about rebound totals.

On 2/22/2023 at 11:40 AM, DontheJewler said:

Oldham was absolutely dominant on the Boards. Impressive. 

Welcome to BGP @DontheJewler!