{"id":194139,"date":"2025-06-22T21:01:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T02:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=194139"},"modified":"2025-06-23T07:16:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T12:16:36","slug":"ohsaa-releases-divisional-hoops-breakdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/06\/22\/ohsaa-releases-divisional-hoops-breakdown\/","title":{"rendered":"OHSAA releases divisional hoops breakdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the 2025-2026 high school basketball season tips off, nearly every team in the Western Buckeye League and Northwest Conference will find themselves in the same division as last season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2025-2026 divisional breakdowns were released by the Ohio High School Athletic Association on Friday and just one team, Bath, will change divisions, going from Division V to Division IV on the girls\u2019 side only. All other divisional assignments will remain the same this winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four WBL boys teams \u2013 Celina, Defiance, Shawnee and Wapakaoneta are in Division III, while the remaining six teams \u2013 Bath, Elida, Kenton, Ottawa-Glandorf, St. Marys Memorial and Van Wert are in Division IV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bluffton is the NWC\u2019s only Division V boys team, while Allen East, Columbus Grove, Crestview Lima Central Catholic, Lincolnview and Spencerville are in Division VI. Delphos Jefferson is the NWC\u2019s lone Division VII team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the girls\u2019 side, Celina, Defiance, Elida, Shawnee and Wapakoneta are in Division III, while Bath, Kenton, St. Marys Memorial and Van Wert are in Division IV. Ottawa-Glandorf is the WBL\u2019s sole Division V team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among NWC girls teams, Bluffton is in Division V, while Allen East, Columbus Grove, Crestview, Delphos Jefferson, Lima Central Catholic,&nbsp; Lincolnview and Spencerville are in Division VI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports When the 2025-2026 high school basketball season tips off, nearly every team in the Western Buckeye League and Northwest Conference will find themselves in the same division as last season. 2025-2026 divisional breakdowns were released by the Ohio High School Athletic Association on Friday and just one team, Bath, will change divisions, [&hellip;]<\/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-194139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-31 00:49:02","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\/194139","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=194139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194151,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194139\/revisions\/194151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}