{"id":164210,"date":"2023-03-16T20:12:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T01:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=164210"},"modified":"2023-03-16T20:12:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T01:12:20","slug":"ohsaa-state-tournament-fun-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/03\/16\/ohsaa-state-tournament-fun-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"OHSAA state tournament fun facts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

For the majority of the 800 or so teams around the state, the 2022-2023 boys high school basketball tipped off 17 weeks ago. Now, just four teams are left in each division and champions will be crowned on Sunday. With that in mind, here are some fun facts about the present tournament and past tournaments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wins vs. losses<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are just two undefeated teams in the state tournament \u2013 Columbus Bishop Ready and Richmond Heights. There are also two teams that went 13-9 during the regular season and are in Dayton \u2013 Toledo St. John\u2019s and Berlin Hiland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AP poll vs. actual state semifinal teams<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the Associated Press ranked teams that qualified for the state tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division I \u2013 No. 1 Centerville, No. 7 Pickerington Central. Akron Hoban and Toledo St. John\u2019s are unranked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division II \u2013 No. 1 Columbus Bishop Ready, No. 2 Dayton Chaminade Julienne, No. 5 Lutheran West. Akron Buchtel is unranked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division III \u2013 No. 1 Ottawa-Glandorf, No. 3 Lutheran East, No. 7 Columbus Africentric. Harvest Prep is unranked. Note: Ottawa-Glandorf tied in a tie for first with Minford, who lost in the district semifinals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division IV \u2013 No. 1 Richmond Heights, No. 5 Crestview, No. 6 Russia. Berlin Hiland is unranked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UD Arena<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re wondering, UD Arena seats 13,409 for basketball games. This is the third year the state tournament has been held there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time machine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a look at some of the champions of seasons past:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

25 years ago<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division I \u2013 Lakewood St. Edward\u2019s 70 Cleveland St. Ignatius 61
Division II \u2013 Cleveland Benedictine 57 Dover 48
Division III \u2013 Sparta Highland 80 Cincinnati Indian Hill 61
Division IV \u2013 Dayton Jefferson 74 Delphos St. John\u2019s 71 (OT)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

50 years ago<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Class AAA \u2013 Akron Central Hower 66 Columbus South 63
Class AA \u2013 Columbus Ready 79 Delphos St. John\u2019s 66
Class A \u2013 Marion Pleasant 63 Mansfield St. Peter\u2019s 53<\/p>\n\n\n\n

75 years ago<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Class A \u2013 Findlay 51 Hamilton Catholic 36
Class B \u2013 Eaton 45 Lima St. Rose 36<\/p>\n\n\n\n

100 years ago<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Class A \u2013 Lorain 15 Bellevue 14
Class B \u2013 Plattsburg 16 Bellpoint 15<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Repeat?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two of last year\u2019s four champions are back to try and defend their respective titles: Pickerington Central and Richmond Heights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor For the majority of the 800 or so teams around the state, the 2022-2023 boys high school basketball tipped off 17 weeks ago. Now, just four teams are left in each division and champions will be crowned on Sunday. With that in mind, here are some fun facts about the present tournament […]<\/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-164210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-04 12:33:53","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\/164210","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=164210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164211,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164210\/revisions\/164211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}