KY Buckeye

Well played. Pretty sure nothing I have to say about them can be posted on a family site like BGP though.

Here's a box score: Indiana All-Stars 38 40 -- 78 Kentucky All-Stars 51 44 -- 95 I: Stone 9 3-3 24, Zeller 8 0-3 16, Hayward 2 1-2 6, Stigall 2 0-0 6, Young 0 1-2 1, Novak 4 0-2 10, Mavunga 2 1-1 5, Moore 1 0-0 3, Mays 1 0-0 3, Hobbs 1 0-0 2, Kuric 1 0-0 2. Totals 31 6-13 78. K: Brown 6 2-4 19, Mack 5 4-4 16, Moses 7 2-2 16, Miller 2 9-11 13, Sorrell 2 2-4 6, Hopson 3 4-5 10, Henderson 3 2-4 8, Morris 1 1-1 3, Johnson 1 0-0 2, Slone 1 0-0 2. Totals 31 26-35 95. Three-pointers: I 10 (Stone 3, Stigall 2, Novak 2, Hayward, Moore, Mays), K 7 (Brown 5, Mack 2). I have a stat sheet but I'm not going to take the time to type everything out. I'll give a few main stats and some stuff that stands out. Let me know if you want to know anything else: FG%: Ky 44.9, Ind 42.5 3PT%: Ind 37.0, Ky 31.8 TO: Ky 15, Ind 19 Rebounds: Ky 47 (Miller 9), Ind 44 (Hayward 12, Zeller 10) Assists: Ky 17 (Miller, Mack 4), Ind 14 (Stigall 4) Brown: 6/7 FG, 5/6 3PT Miller: 2/8 FG, 9/11 FT Moses: 7/11 FG Miller, Mack: 3 steals each

Shawnee State in Portsmouth has been a 4 year school since the mid-80s. If I'm not mistaken, there's a juco named Shawnee in Illinois or someplace.

Semis are Wednesday at 5:30 and 7:45. Finals Thursday at 6:30. The bottom half is indeed loaded.

Monday 5:30 - Mason/Nicholas 7:45 - Bourbon/Scott Tuesday 5:30 - Harrison/Clark 7:45 - Campbell/St. Pat

She hit the record breaker tonight at Mason County. Crushed it to straightaway center. The sport fence at the Rec Park is supposed to be 200 and she cleared it by a good 20-30 feet. It's also her 12th on the season which ties a state record.

Gotta agree with this. But hey, what do Bob Huggins and Travis Ford know about hoops when we have experts like D-dawg and kwl 1977. For a kid like Trevor, who absolutely loves the game and wears it on his sleeve and is really refreshing to watch, it amazes me that so many people need to have such negativity.

I'd say that the biggest factor in Hopson getting the POY over Miller was that votes had to be submitted before the state tourney.

This post infuriates me for a variety of reasons. I had a rather lengthy response in which I spelled them all out but in the interest of not getting suspended as well as maintaining what civil relations I have left with my current employer (not to mention I make so little that the $15 reinstatement would put a severe cramp in my budget), I'm going to sleep on it.

There may be more, but just from last night's roster: Ohio: Ken Frease - Xavier Chris Johnson - Dayton Anthony Hitchens - Akron Drew Spradlin - Elon Tom Pritchard - Indiana Kyle Rudolph - Notre Dame for football Kentucky: Correy Sorrell - NKU Adam Delph - UK (walk on) Everybody else undecided

Setty actually started but went I think 0-8 from 3 and 0-9 overall. Really had a lot of pretty good looks considering there's no defense being played, just couldn't get them to fall. The last one he shot couldn't have possibly gone farther down in the bucket and rattled out, and by then he seemed pretty bummed out. It's a shame but that's how it goes when you're a shooter. If they played it all over again he could come out and knock down 7/8 or something. Couple other observations... You wouldn't tell by looking at the roster, but it seemed that Ohio just had that much more size inside, of course it didn't hurt that Frease is an absolute behemoth... I could barely keep up with scoring, let alone rebounds, but I'd venture to say Kentucky got killed on the glass... I'd been looking forward to seeing Hitchens after hearing about him from friends at home while he owned my alma mater the last few years and won a state title this year. The kid really came off as cocky and did an awful lot of jawing for an all-star game, but at the same time, a guy I'd love to have on my team. Relentless defensively and could get in your head pretty quick if you're on the opposing team... Both MVPs looked good (obviously, or they wouldn't be MVPs), Gagel knocked down some big time shots and Eargle looked really smooth for a 6-7 kid. He had one shot where (I didn't have the best angle but) it looked like the defender got a piece of it on the way up and he ends up shooting it left handed and sinks it from about 15'...

Ohio won 92-86. Was tied at halftime, Kentucky actually comes out and takes a pretty big lead but lets it slip away. Ohio grabs a late lead and what had been a pretty exciting game goes beyond 2 hours while they shoot an ungodly amount of free throws over the last few minutes. Cierra Ricketts, who almost singlehandedly kept Kentucky in it with 23 points (21 in the second half) was Kentucky MVP. Dakeisha Mann, 17/8/5 was Ohio MVP. I'd post a box score but i have some stuff from the first half that doesn't add up and not enough energy to figure it out tonight.

Ohio (113) Johnson 4 5-5 13, Frease 4 3-4 11, Aronhold 4 1-2 10, Morrow 2 0-0 4, Eargle 8 1-2 17, Chambers 5 2-4 12, Hobbs 3 2-2 10, Hitchens 3 2-5 9, Spradlin 3 0-0 8, Dummermuth 2 2-2 7, Moore 2 0-1 4, Rudolph 2 0-1 4, Pritchard 1 0-0 2, Davenport 1 0-0 2. Totals 44 18-28 113. Kentucky (89) Gagel 5 2-2 16, Henderson 3 0-0 7, Morris 1 3-4 5, Moorman 1 0-0 2, Edmonson 5 3-3 15, McGraw 2 2-2 8, Moses 2 3-4 7, Sorrell 1 3-5 7, Delph 2 2-2 7, Stepp 2 0-0 5, Pettit 2 0-0 4, Lee 2 0-0 4, Murry 1 0-0 2. Totals 29 18-22 89.

Ohio-Kentucky All Star Game Damian Eargle, Ohio MVP Nick Gagel, Kentucky MVP I'll get a box score up here in a few minutes.

A quick search shows that you're the same guy who, in the last Ledger-bashing thread, said they should cover no games on a given night rather than cover Ohio games. Glad to see you've stuck to your guns and still believe that out of 8,000 or whatever in a coverage area, you still think you're the only one that matters. Hey, I've got other papers I like better too, and teams I'd rather hear/see/read about than others, but seriously, coverage area is coverage area. Just because I personally don't like UK, doesn't mean I think the Herald Leader shouldn't cover them or because I personally would have rather seen somebody other than Kansas and Memphis in the national championship tonight doesn't mean I think CBS should pack it up and go home. I'm going to leave it at that. This should be a thread about honoring these kids, not for meaningless arguments.

This again? You've gotta be kidding me. But if you'd like them to wipe out half their coverage area just for your personal preferences, maybe everyone's better off with you not as a subscriber. Better yet, you could start your own racer4lefe Daily Herald... You could even have your own weekly column where you bash a bunch of hard working kids from West Union/Ripley/Georgetown etc.

I totally agree with this. I've talked with colleagues a few times about how it's kind of strange that you don't see many of the boys at BC playing more than one sport. At a small school, you can't afford to have a group of your best athletes not participating, whatever the sport. If you look at St. Pat, who has kids like Owens and Anderson participating in everything, I think that's a big part of why they've been successful not only in basketball the last couple years but also have a good soccer team and decent baseball team.

Unless the Kentucky Lions Eye Foundation (organization that presents the award) just happens to be making a "special announcement" at the Fieldhouse today about something else, I'd say it's pretty official.

Chris Mofford needs waaaaaay more love than he's getting here, as well as Kyle King. I thought this was a "five best players" thread as opposed to a "who's going to contribute for Mason, Clark and Montgomery" thread.

I, for one, salute the KHSAA for putting their heads together and making the right call. It would have been a terrible shame to see such a fine young man have to sit his final, and biggest, game of his career because a bunch of administrators feel like enforcing the letter of the law is more important than the spirit of the law. If David Stern had the courage to stand up and make that call, we'd be taking about the defending champion Phoenix Suns right now.

Is it now okay to say that Mason didn't exactly bring their A game Thursday, or will 16th region homers still kill me for that?

If Mason County plays like Mason County, they win by 20. If Mason County plays like they did tonight, they lose by 20.

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Ryan Hamm made three huge shots. I don't have it in front of me right now but we were talking earlier about how at least two, maybe all three, gave Mason the lead when they were trailing/tied and his last gave them the lead for good.

I've got Mason and LexCath about even but like Mason's road to get there much better.