Yeah I can agree. I didn't expect them to be that good this year. Hardman is very easy to take out of the game because he is one-dimensional with shooting and can't really score off the dribble. The coaching has been pretty good overall, but I haven't seen too much young basketball talent on the lower levels at Princeton. It might be Transfer City for Princeton in the off season
Look for Cov Cath to be in the mix.
3rd time for the Vikes and many teams have had 2 times thus far--the top-seeded teams, with the draw on Sunday, better consider taking byes to limit the # of exposures at the sectional level and getting quarantined simply from playing an opponent who has a kid test positive within 2 days of playing in a game. Alot of risk playing 3 games in the sectional when the bye can get you to the District playing just 2 games.
I can tell you the "honesty" on disclosing covid/tracing/pausing is not being done uniformly from school to school or even from county to county in this area---Clermont County Health Dept. has been far more stringent in shutting teams down than schools have encountered in Hamilton, Butler or Warren Counties---not sure what the difference is, but Goshen, Milford, New Richmond, Bethel Tate have had multiple pauses during this season thus far. Maybe it's just luck that many big-name teams have avoided "pausing", but I predict some team or teams will get knocked out of the tourney due to having to quarantine for 14 days and be unavailable to play. It's 2021 so who knows!!
JElder, I haven't been following Cincinnati basketball very closely this year like I typically do (pandemic and all). Do you have any insight as to why Sage Tolentino isn't showing up in the Hamilton box scores either? Did he leave the school as well?
Vike16, do you think Hardman is good enough for Ohio State? He reminds me of Orlando Williams from awhile back. Has some length and is a knock-dead shooter, but doesn't do much else. Williams had a nice college career between Miami-OH and EKU, but that is still a far cry from potential #1 seed Ohio State.
Not as good as Orlando jr , he needs a good spring summer in weight room which is hard for AAU .also don’t have the support players like Orlando had his junior/ senior year those teams was loaded with D-1 / D-2 talent
The Hamilton kids were out due to transfer issues but they were just ruled eligible by OHSAA a few days ago. I think both KJ and Zongo will be D1 kids but Zongo has a long way to go in the classroom and from a maturity level. That was a terrible fit from the beginning, the OH community wasn't happy about it and Price did nothing to help the kids with his style of play. I think they end up at Cov Cath and will take off from there.
His sophomore numbers are comparable to Orlando's. The shooting percentage is a little lower, but I think Hardman is more "the guy" than Orlando was his sophomore year. Jordan Sibert was a better all around player than both as a sophomore and he wasn't that impactful at OSU before he went to Dayton.
If they're eligible now, are the Hamilton forfeits going to be reversed? It shouldn't be Hamilton's fault that the OHSAA screwed up on this one.
Does Hamilton rehire the AD as well , seems like they jump the ball on firing him
No, the article that I read said the family just closed on a house in the Hamilton city school District. Therefore he was ineligible prior and now he becomes eligible.
I think Fairfield had a really great game plan on Hardman. Logan Woods just face guarded him and took away his ability to get open off the screen. They forced him to show if he could score off the dribble and Hardman really struggled that game. I will admit if you let Hardman get open off the screen he will rain three's all night from 30 feet. I think Hardman has to develop more on his offensive game and he not that athletic for his size, but he has a lot of talent and time to grow under Wyant over the summer
If true, they definitely jumped the ball on firing him. I don't think Hamilton will rehire the AD, but definitely should give him a good recommendation so he can get a new job
You can say he resigned but we all know he was told to either resign or get fired
As far as I know only one kid was cleared to play because his family just closed on a house (there are two boys that were in question) Sage Tolentino was cleared but it was never really clear if he was ever even inelligible. (his family has supposedly been living here since late summer) The other kid EJ Kapihe has not been cleared and from what I am hearing he will not be cleared because his family does not live in ohio and they never have lived in ohio. From what I am being told according to OHSSA you have to have a parent or guradian living or have declared residency in ohio to be eligible to play in any school. There is way more to the story from what I am being told. I think the AD is taking all the blame for this one but pretty sure there were some others that should have had some consequences.
Tough to say you can't see Mason beating Fairfield, considering they lost to Fairfield by 1 point during the season at Fairfield. And I think Mason has a great chance to beat Walnut Hills.
Great that Hardman has a D1 offer. I don’t see it and I’ve seen him play several times. His shooting percentage is not one of a great or even good shooter. He forces shots and can’t create his own shot. Not sure why folks keep saying he is a shooter. Take the scholie and run!