? C | Final at Park Hills via the Colonel Athletic Network livestream. 

Terrific game in front of a packed house. Congratulations Cooper, well played! 

Cooper:    14-18-13-20 • 65 

Cov Cath: 13-16-13-13 • 55 

Up next ~

Jaguars (13-7, R9 7-1, KY #23), Friday vs. Lexington Christian Academy. 

Colonels (15-5, R9 6-1, KY #4), Friday vs. Highlands at NKU in the "Dan Tieman Classic." 

Frosh: Cov Cath 42 Cooper 25 

JV: Did not catch the final minute. Cov Cath led 47-43.

Lots of talk about who the better coach is, but seems every time they play, the game is played at Coopers pace of play.  Give me Sullivan all day.  
 

CCH really struggled to shoot the ball. 
 

Rondon is so good and so smooth, lots of theatrics with him.  Fun to watch.
 

The zebras had a really bad game. 

Did Andy Johnson from Cooper play?

2 minutes ago, feelingit said:

Did Andy Johnson from Cooper play?

No, said approximately 2 more weeks. 

2 hours ago, Strawberrybarrow250 said:

Lots of talk about who the better coach is, but seems every time they play, the game is played at Coopers pace of play.  Give me Sullivan all day.  
 

CCH really struggled to shoot the ball. 
 

Rondon is so good and so smooth, lots of theatrics with him.  Fun to watch.
 

The zebras had a really bad game. 

Sully can coach.  You play his team and you will have to work to score the ball.

Great win Jags!!

Excellent win for the Jags! To go over to Park Hills and get a win, let alone a 10 point win, doesn’t happen often. 
Rondon was the best player on the court with his ball handling, shooting and passing which was probably his best game of the year even when CCH went “Box and 1” on him. Jaiden Combs is demonstrating a great amount of toughness that’s been missing this season and the rest of the team is feeding off of it especially on the defensive end. 
I really thought Cooper’s bench gave Coach Sully some strong quality minutes, especially Austin Alexander who didn’t have the height to guard Miller but used to pure strength to box out and chip in with a few buckets. 
The football players are finally finding their basketball stride as well as Shaun Pouncy who is finding his rhythm too coming back from his injury from last season. 
Johnson getting back soon will be huge asset for a deep run in the tournament. 
 

I was very impressed with Miller’s defense! He  is a phenomenal shock blocker! I would say he had at least 12-15 blocks. 
 

Should be a fun run to see who gets the 9th Region crown. 

2 hours ago, Strawberrybarrow250 said:

Lots of talk about who the better coach is, but seems every time they play, the game is played at Cooper's pace of play.  Give me Sullivan all day.

Cov Cath has seemed to oftentimes play to the level of their competition this season, and I'm sure that's something Coach Ruthsatz and company are working hard on remedying.

As or who the better coach is, well, I realize records aren't everything, but Ruthsatz has beaten Sully 11 out of the 17 times he's faced him. Plus how many state championships has Sully had at Cooper? Or 9th Region titles? If you were asking me, I'd let you have Sully all day.

This was definitely a good win for Cooper. They earned it tonight. Rondon looked fantastic, especially.

Moving forward for the Colonels, hopefully the biggest lesson the team takes away from this one is that being ranked high in the state doesn't mean you automatically win games over lower-ranked teams, it means you're going to get the A+ level of every team's A+ level games each night, and that this is a lesson in nothing being handed to you. Cooper has never beaten Cov Cath twice in the same season, to the best of my knowledge...I don't believe there are many teams that have managed to pull that off during Coach Ruthsatz's tenure. I take that as a sign about how Coach Ruthsatz and his staff are able to build off of mistakes and missteps made in losses.

The regular season is a wrap one month from tonight, so I'm looking forward to seeing how this team improves. There's a lot to be said - especially at the high school level - about a team getting hot at the right time. Hoping to see my Colonels do just that.

Again, congratulations to the Jags!

Photo credits to Dale Dawn.

4 hours ago, Colonels_Wear_Blue said:

Cov Cath has seemed to oftentimes play to the level of their competition this season, and I'm sure that's something Coach Ruthsatz and company are working hard on remedying.

As or who the better coach is, well, I realize records aren't everything, but Ruthsatz has beaten Sully 11 out of the 17 times he's faced him. Plus how many state championships has Sully had at Cooper? Or 9th Region titles? If you were asking me, I'd let you have Sully all day.

And out of the 17 times they have played, how many of those has CCH had the better players, probably 15.  Yet, every time they play, the game is mucked up and played the way Cooper wants to play.  Switch the players around and I could almost guarantee Sully would have at least those 11 wins.  

EXCELLENT WIN for the Jags! Definitely an impressive road win against the #1 team in the region and the #5 team in the state. Having the lead from halftime to the end of the game and winning by 10 was equally impressive!! Can’t wait to see this team when Andy Johnson comes back in a week or so!!
With this 3rd straight win since the Ryle loss, Coach Sullivan has this team on the rise at the right time!!

25 minutes ago, Strawberrybarrow250 said:

And out of the 17 times they have played, how many of those has CCH had the better players, probably 15.  Yet, every time they play, the game is mucked up and played the way Cooper wants to play.  Switch the players around and I could almost guarantee Sully would have at least those 11 wins.  

FACTS, with one exception, I would venture to say CCH has had the better players 17 out of 17 times. They had the better team in ‘17 and last year at the regionals and the Jags were “supposed” to get beat, they had the better team tonite especially without one of Cooper’s best players and were “supposed” to get beat but Cooper just laced them up, like their coach instructs them to do, played Sullivan defense and got it done. 
Yeah, we’ll “take” Coach Sully!  ??

@Mr. Sixer you called this. I truly didn't think Cooper could be on the same level at Newport and CovCath, especially until fully healthy. They are truly a contender and now I cannot wait until that Cooper - Newport game. 

Now, for the larger picture, does this mean that anyone in the group of Cooper, CovCath, Newport, Lloyd, Ryle & Boone can win the region? I think it might. 

11 minutes ago, se7ens said:

@Mr. Sixer you called this. I truly didn't think Cooper could be on the same level at Newport and CovCath, especially until fully healthy. They are truly a contender and now I cannot wait until that Cooper - Newport game. 

Now, for the larger picture, does this mean that anyone in the group of Cooper, CovCath, Newport, Lloyd, Ryle & Boone can win the region? I think it might. 

I believe Cooper, CCH and Newport are the favorites, no doubt. The next team closest to that group would be Lloyd. Boone has played well most of the year but they’ve dropped the last two. While Ryle did beat Cooper, they are not in the same conversation as being able to pull off a regional championship IMO. 

Here’s my breakdown on the top 4 who, IMO, have the best chance to represent the 9th  

Cooper-extensive depth and can go 11 deep and are on the rise and should continue to peak come tourney time

CCH-the best big man and is just a force with pieces to win the region of course just based upon their history 

Newport-excellent team and Coach Snapp squeezes everything he can out of his squad. How Kinney comes back from his injury will play a huge part in determining if the Wildcats can repeat

Lloyd-the smoothest big man in the region that can stretch the floor with his game but I question their depth 

Again, just my opinion but I won’t be surprised if any of these 4 win the 9th