Posted December 10, 200519 yr 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. <b>High School Hoops: Talk of the Town</b> 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/
December 11, 200519 yr The writer makes NCH seem like a small town insted of calling it a suburb like it is. that sort of bothered me
December 12, 200519 yr 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.
November 16, 200618 yr 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
March 1, 200718 yr Who'd thunk it. This year's version of my Alma Maters basketball team is considered a favorite in the district basketball tourney? :-o 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
March 1, 200718 yr 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
March 1, 200718 yr Never heard of 'em. There's plenty of locations in your neck of the woods that I've never heard of either.
March 1, 200718 yr OAKWOOD?!?!? BASKETBALL!??! God, that area has changed! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 4, 200718 yr 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.
March 26, 200916 yr 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
March 30, 200916 yr 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
March 30, 200916 yr Wow I didn't know Oak Hill was that good. They were the ones who took my former high school out of the tourneys.
November 26, 2024Nov 26 OHSAA Central District Basketball Tournament Games Will Return to Fairgrounds Coliseum this season "After a 10-year hiatus, postseason high school basketball will return to the Taft Coliseum at the Ohio Expo Center and State Fairgrounds next February and March. The historic multipurpose arena on the state fairgrounds campus was one of several hosts of the OHSAA basketball state tournament from 1923 until the state tournament moved to St. John Arena in 1958. The fairgrounds coliseum then hosted district and regional tournament contests from 1959 through 2014. The Taft Coliseum is a 5,000 seat arena that has hosted countless basketball and ice hockey contests, along with hundreds of other events. Beginning the week of February 17, the OHSAA will place selected girls and boys district and regional tournament games at the Taft Coliseum, which could also host state semifinal games. More information will be released in January." https://www.ohsaa.org/Sports/News/ohsaa-basketball-postseason-will-return-to-fairgrounds-coliseum
March 16Mar 16 OHSAA Boys Basketball Tournament Numerous Columbus area boys basketball teams play this weekend in Final Four games Division 1 REYNOLDSBURG(25-1) plays WEST CHESTER LAKOTA WEST(21-5) 3/16/25 (12:00) at Wright State OLENTANGY ORANGE(24-2) plays CLE. ST. IGNATIUS(22-4) 3/16/25 (12:00) at Canton Memorial Fieldhouse Division 2 WESTERVILLE NORTH(23-2) plays TOL. ST. FRANCIS de SALES(16-9) 3/16/25 (6:00) at Wright State Division 5 COLUMBUS ACADEMY remains undefeated (28-0) by winning their Final Four game last night at Wittenberg COLUMBUS ACADEMY(28-0) plays CLE. HTS. LUTHERAN EAST(24-4) for the D5 State Championship 3/22/25 (10:45) at UD Arena
March 20Mar 20 On 3/15/2025 at 8:32 PM, Luvcbus said: OHSAA Boys Basketball Tournament Numerous Columbus area boys basketball teams play this weekend in Final Four games Division 1 REYNOLDSBURG(25-1) plays WEST CHESTER LAKOTA WEST(21-5) 3/16/25 (12:00) at Wright State OLENTANGY ORANGE(24-2) plays CLE. ST. IGNATIUS(22-4) 3/16/25 (12:00) at Canton Memorial Fieldhouse Division 2 WESTERVILLE NORTH(23-2) plays TOL. ST. FRANCIS de SALES(16-9) 3/16/25 (6:00) at Wright State Division 5 COLUMBUS ACADEMY remains undefeated (28-0) by winning their Final Four game last night at Wittenberg COLUMBUS ACADEMY(28-0) plays CLE. HTS. LUTHERAN EAST(24-4) for the D5 State Championship 3/22/25 (10:45) at UD Arena Four teams from the Columbus metro won last weekend and advanced to play for State Championships this coming weekend! A little preview of this weekend's championship games: In the Division 1 Final, Central Ohio is guaranteed a State Championship as two teams from the largest conference in the Columbus metro (the OCC) will battle it out for a State Championship. Both Reynoldsburg and Olentangy Orange will be playing for their first State Championship. In Division 2, Westerville North will play in their first State Championship game in 31 years. WN is the heavy favorite in this one. In Division 5, Columbus Academy remains undefeated on the year and advances to their first State Final since 1981 State Championship Schedule: Division 1 REYNOLDSBURG(26-1) plays OLENTANGY ORANGE(25-2) 3/22/25 (8:30) at UD Arena Division 2 WESTERVILLE NORTH(24-2) plays MASSILLON PERRY(14-13) 3/21/25 at 7:30 at UD Arena Division 5 COLUMBUS ACADEMY(28-0) plays CLEVELAND HEIGHTS LUTHERAN EAST(24-4) 3/22/25 at 10:45 at UD Arena *Also congratulations to the PICKERINGTON CENTRAL girls basketball team. They won the 2025 Division 1 State Championship Saturday night, defeating Cincinnati Princeton 47-44. This is Pick Central's eighth State Championship- which is tied for second most in OHSAA history.
March 20Mar 20 16 hours ago, Luvcbus said: Four teams from the Columbus metro won last weekend and advanced to play for State Championships this coming weekend! A little preview of this weekend's championship games: In the Division 1 Final, Central Ohio is guaranteed a State Championship as two teams from the largest conference in the Columbus metro (the OCC) will battle it out for a State Championship. Both Reynoldsburg and Olentangy Orange will be playing for their first State Championship. In Division 2, Westerville North will play in their first State Championship game in 31 years. WN is the heavy favorite in this one. In Division 5, Columbus Academy remains undefeated on the year and advances to their first State Final since 1981 State Championship Schedule: Division 1 REYNOLDSBURG(26-1) plays OLENTANGY ORANGE(25-2) 3/22/25 (8:30) at UD Arena Division 2 WESTERVILLE NORTH(24-2) plays MASSILLON PERRY(14-13) 3/21/25 at 7:30 at UD Arena Division 5 COLUMBUS ACADEMY(28-0) plays CLEVELAND HEIGHTS LUTHERAN EAST(24-4) 3/22/25 at 10:45 at UD Arena *Also congratulations to the PICKERINGTON CENTRAL girls basketball team. They won the 2025 Division 1 State Championship Saturday night, defeating Cincinnati Princeton 47-44. This is Pick Central's eighth State Championship- which is tied for second most in OHSAA history. Maysville is also in the State final in D4. Zanesville is part of the Columbus CSA and is pretty closely tied in with Columbus culturally.
March 21Mar 21 18 hours ago, cbussoccer said: Maysville is also in the State final in D4. Zanesville is part of the Columbus CSA and is pretty closely tied in with Columbus culturally. I actually went to Maysville's Final Four game against Cin Wyoming at Wittenberg Friday night (because Columbus Academy played in the next game). It was a 2OT thriller! One of the better HS games I have seen in quite some time. (Right up there with Reynoldsburg's 2OT thriller last week against Liberty)
March 21Mar 21 2 hours ago, Luvcbus said: I actually went to Maysville's Final Four game against Cin Wyoming at Wittenberg Friday night (because Columbus Academy played in the next game). It was a 2OT thriller! One of the better HS games I have seen in quite some time. (Right up there with Reynoldsburg's 2OT thriller last week against Liberty) Oh nice. Yea Maysville's run has been pretty wild. This is their second year in a row making the final after losing to Archbishop Alter in last year's D2 state final. The scary thing is I don't think they have any seniors on the team. Most of their main players are juniors, so they should be poised for yet another run next year.
March 22Mar 22 Westerville North (25-2) wins the Division II State Championship 78-46 over Massillon Perry (14-14). Cinderella run is over. https://www.dispatch.com/story/sports/high-school/basketball/2025/03/21/ohsaa-basketball-state-championship-westerville-north-massillon-perry/82497054007/
March 22Mar 22 8 hours ago, aderwent said: Westerville North (25-2) wins the Division II State Championship 78-46 over Massillon Perry (14-14). Cinderella run is over. https://www.dispatch.com/story/sports/high-school/basketball/2025/03/21/ohsaa-basketball-state-championship-westerville-north-massillon-perry/82497054007/ WN could have realistically won the D1 tournament. They were dominant this postseason. I think their closest game in the tournament was a 20 point win. Also, great win for Maysville yesterday. Wouldn’t be surprised to see them back next season. I think their entire lineup will be coming back.
March 24Mar 24 So it looks like the two best high school basketball teams in the state of Ohio are separated by just a few miles in the northern suburbs of Columbus. Olentangy beat Reynoldsburg to win the D1 championship, and Westerville dominated Perry to win the D2 championship. Westerville North most likely would have been in the conversation to make the D1 championship along with Orange had they played in the D1 tournament. Their only two losses of the season were to Orange by 2 points and to St Iggy by 13 points in the beginning of the season. After their loss to St Iggy, they went on to win the all of their remaining games and absolutely dominated in the tournament, winning every game by at least 20 points. Orange, on the other hand, proved without a doubt to be the best team in the state. Their only two losses this season came to elite out of state competition, and they beat St Iggy twice. St Iggy put up a valiant effort though, taking Orange to OT in both meetings this season.
March 25Mar 25 I was able to make it to Dayton Friday night for Westerville North's game and again Saturday night for the all Central Ohio matchup between OO and RHS. Unfortunately neither game was overly competitive. That was the fifth time I was able to catch Westerville North this year and man were they a pleasure to watch. In their championship game Friday night, their suffocating press forced 27 turnovers, including 24 steals! They were beating Perry so bad (+34) midway through the fourth period that they were just one point away from initiating a running clock. They scored 37 points off turnovers and had 33 fast-break points to none for Perry. They finished the tournament with an average margin of victory of 38.3 points per game! The Saturday night game was a bit of a letdown. I had been to multiple Reynoldsburg games this year and that was as bad as I had seen them play all year. Reynoldsburg had the tallest starting five I have seen in years. Still nice to see multiple teams from the area bring State Championships home to Central Ohio!
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