{"id":140027,"date":"2021-02-08T22:11:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T03:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=140027"},"modified":"2021-02-08T22:11:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T03:11:48","slug":"random-thoughts-hoops-hoops-hoops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/02\/08\/random-thoughts-hoops-hoops-hoops\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thoughts: hoops, hoops, hoops!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week\u2019s edition of Random Thoughts centers around sectional predictions, the NWC girls championship race and a school without a sectional title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How\u2019d I do?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s revisit my predictions for boys basketball sectional pairings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the Division II Spencerville district, I said Shawnee would be the No. 1 seed and St. Marys Memorial or Wauseon would be the No. 2 or No. 3 seeds, but I wasn\u2019t sure of the order. As it turns out, Wauseon is the No. 2 seed, followed by the Roughriders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I said Defiance, Napoleon and Wapakoneta would be the would be the 4-5-6 seeds, but the order was Defiance, Wapakoneta and Napoleon. Close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I predicted Van Wert to be the No. 7 seed, which turned out to be correct, then my predicted order was Celina, Bryan, Elida and Kenton. That also turned out to be correct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As predicted, Columbus Grove, Ottoville and Crestview are the No. 1, 2 and 3 seeds at the Division IV Elida district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I said the Crestview\/Lincolnview winner would be the No. 3 seed and I noted that Kalida could end up with the No. 4 seed, which happened. Lincolnview wound up as the No. 5 seed, and Leipsic is the No. 6 seed as predicted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was slightly off on Pandora-Gilboa, which wound up as the No. 8 seed instead of No. 7. Cory-Rawson got the No. 7 seed and the remainder of the order was Continental, Miller City, Fort Jennings, Delphos St. John\u2019s and Patrick Henry. I was way off on the Patriots, a team I thought would be the No. 9 or 10 seed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

NWC girls<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Northwest Conference girls basketball title race is coming down to the final night of conference play (Thursday) and here are the scenarios:
If Crestview beats Paulding, the Lady Knights will claim at least a share of the conference championship. If Delphos Jefferson beats Spencerville, the Lady Cats will also claim a co-championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Paulding beats Crestview and Jefferson beats Spencerville, the Lady Cats will be outright champions. If Crestview beats Paulding and Spencerville defeats Jefferson, the Lady Knights will be outright champs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Paulding and Spencerville win, then they\u2019ll share a four way championship with Crestview and Jefferson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still looking<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is still a school in the state of Ohio that has yet to win a boys basketball sectional title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s Bucyrus High School in Crawford County. The Redmen have not won a sectional title even once in school history. In fairness, for many years Bucyrus was lumped in the same sectional with Willard, a basketball power for many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Redmen are the No. 9 seed in the Division III Shelby district this year and they\u2019ll play No. 11 seed Lakota in the semifinals. If they win, they\u2019ll have to defeat No. 2 seed Western Reserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’ll be tough to break the streak this year, but here’s hoping the school can notch that first sectional sometime in the very near future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have thoughts on any of the above subjects, feel free to email me at sports@thevwindependent.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor This week\u2019s edition of Random Thoughts centers around sectional predictions, the NWC girls championship race and a school without a sectional title. How\u2019d I do? Let\u2019s revisit my predictions for boys basketball sectional pairings. At the Division II Spencerville district, I said Shawnee would be the No. 1 seed and St. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 21:57:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}