{"id":152046,"date":"2022-03-08T04:46:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T09:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=152046"},"modified":"2022-03-08T05:25:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T10:25:01","slug":"random-thoughts-poll-dream-team-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/03\/08\/random-thoughts-poll-dream-team-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thoughts: hoops and more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

This week\u2019s edition of Random Thoughts centers around the Associated Press poll, area basketball teams at regionals, an off-the-cuff dream team, an improbable comeback, Ohio State basketball and Major League Baseball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AP poll<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A quick check of the final Associated Press poll and the list of teams at this week\u2019s State Girls Basketball Tournament shows none of the four poll champions will compete for the on-court title in Dayton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cincinnati Mt. Notre Dame, Shelby, Wheelersburg and defending Division IV state champ Fort Loramie all lost in the regionals, either in the semifinals or the championship game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes the polls aren\u2019t accurate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boys regionals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s possible the area will have teams at State in each of the four divisions \u2013 Lima Sr. in Division I, St. Marys Memorial in Division II, Ottawa-Glandorf in Division III and Antwerp, Marion Local or Ottoville in Division IV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s hoping it happens in one form or another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dream team<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every year I hear people talking about the best basketball players around the area and it got me thinking \u2013 how about an area All-Star team, just for fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Off the top of my head and from players I\u2019ve seen personally this year, it would include Rontae Jackson of Crestview, Aidan Pratt and Garett Gunter of Van Wert, Will Miller of Ottoville, Brooks Laukhuf of Wayne Trace, Colin White of Ottawa-Glandorf and Austin Parks of St. Marys Memorial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of those players are interchangeable, so it would be a starting five of some combination and two off the bench.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One for the ages<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you didn\u2019t hear, No. 1 Col. Crawford trailed No. 6 Western Reserve 40-24 entering the fourth quarter of Saturday\u2019s Division III district championship game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, it seemed like Western Reserve had the game in hand. It didn\u2019t work out that way, as Col. Crawford came storming back for a 53-51 win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How\u2019s that for a comeback?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ohio State hoops<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Late regular season losses to Nebraska and Michigan weren\u2019t exactly what Buckeye fans had in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me ask this though \u2013 even in this season where there doesn\u2019t seem to be an overwhelming favorite to win the national championship (okay Gonzaga, but the Zags are beatable) \u2013 does anyone really this year\u2019s Ohio State team was going to advance deep into the NCAA tournament? If so, what made you think that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, it\u2019s still possible they\u2019ll make a decent run but I wouldn\u2019t bet money on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MLB<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To all those involved in the Major League Baseball work stoppage: really? You can\u2019t get this worked out? You had months to figure this out, negotiate in good faith etc., and this is where we\u2019re at?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get it together. Work it out and move on.<\/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 editor This week\u2019s edition of Random Thoughts centers around the Associated Press poll, area basketball teams at regionals, an off-the-cuff dream team, an improbable comeback, Ohio State basketball and Major League Baseball. AP poll A quick check of the final Associated Press poll and the list of teams at this week\u2019s State Girls […]<\/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-152046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 17:06:25","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\/152046","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=152046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}