IHSA boys state tourney scores

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1A
Winchester 48 - Woodlawn 27
Newark 52 - Dee-Mack 32

2A to be played this evening

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In marginally related news....the Chicago Public League may have a different look soon...and it might affect basketball....

New Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel wants to make more public schools in Chicago
"single gender only" (either all-boys or all-girls)

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/4265710-418/emanuel-wants-to-create-more-single-gender-high-schools.html

so that may mean creating new high schools or changing over so that some HS's that now field boys' basketball could in the future be girls only schools.

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1A
Winchester 28 - Woodlawn 27
Newark 52 - Dee-Mack 32

2A to be played this evening

Neither game was very good. The West Central score is wrong, btw. Woodlawn looked horrible...Newark has a really nice looking team, the Delaware recruit is a nice player, although I don't know that he's a legit D-1 talent, they also have some good size for class 1A. I have to think Newark beats WC by 10-15.

Dee-mack was simply overmatched both in talent and size.

Hopefully tonights games are better. Hales will be fun to watch.

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.. score is wrong....

corrected, thx

[Future Walk-On]

Rock Island won by 2

i forget score.


CAN WE PLEASE OFFER DORSEY FROM CENTRAL. He is so good.....apparently his attitude needs adjusting. send him to JUCO and sign him up.

Dorsey missed game tying shot at buzzer....but had like 9 points in the final 3 min to spark Central to a tie from being down 11 with 1:50 to play.

I like him much much better than Bobo.

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Johnny Hill's team beat Ryan Boatright's team.

Also, Normal Community (led by Anthony Beane Jr.) advances to the Normal Super-Sectional.

1 game away from State...

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today's 1A scores

1A Woodlawn over Dee-Mack for 3rd place 52-37
1A Championship Newark clobbering West Central

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today's 1A scores

1A Woodlawn over Dee-Mack for 3rd place 52-37
1A Championship Newark clobbering West Central

I still love this tournament, but this year is a great case for how watered down it has become. 3 of 4 teams in 1A would have had zero chance to make it in an A/AA year. So, yes, the IHSA gives more kids that experience. No, the IHSA does not improve the experience for the fans or produce interesting games. Newark was clearly the class of the field. A team like Dee-Mack, no disrespect to those players, doesn't belong in a state tournament, they're simply not good enough. So what we got were four games that really weren't very good and not very fun to watch. Newark was enjoyable, yet I couldn't help but thinking that that team would be a lot more interesting if they were playing against teams that could actually threaten them--none of the other three could.

2A was slightly better. Still, there you have two small private schools taking 1st and 3rd. Quality of the games was certainly better, but to my thinking not enough so to justify this 1A/2A split. It's really unfortunate.

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I still love this tournament, but this year is a great case for how watered down it has become. 3 of 4 teams in 1A would have had zero chance to make it in an A/AA year. So, yes, the IHSA gives more kids that experience. No, the IHSA does not improve the experience for the fans or produce interesting games. Newark was clearly the class of the field. A team like Dee-Mack, no disrespect to those players, doesn't belong in a state tournament, they're simply not good enough. So what we got were four games that really weren't very good and not very fun to watch. Newark was enjoyable, yet I couldn't help but thinking that that team would be a lot more interesting if they were playing against teams that could actually threaten them--none of the other three could.

2A was slightly better. Still, there you have two small private schools taking 1st and 3rd. Quality of the games was certainly better, but to my thinking not enough so to justify this 1A/2A split. It's really unfortunate.

The minute I did this I was upset.

I remember....the Manual games that we're here. The 2 central games. Eddie Curry's Thornwood team, Andre Igoudala and Rose and Richwoods....the arena was packed and buzzing.........no where close now.

There is like half the attendance that there used to be.