44 points in the first half, the other team makes a tiny adjustment and all you can muster is 13 points in the entire second half? Missing 6 layups probably didn’t help. Unfortunate because I really think if Tipp had held on they’d be going to state. Congrats to CJ tho, that big man is the truth
For sure, props to CJ for battling all the way back. Tipp couldn't really stop Nauseef any time he got the ball around the basket, plus that freshman Powell... he's gonna be really good.
Feels like a lot of the same for Tipp with their athletics programs over the last 15ish years or so. There are so many teams in different sports at Tipp that are good enough to either get to the state level or maybe even win it all, but something happens before then where they fall short. Specifically I can think of boys basketball in 2006, 2007, and this year, girls basketball on numerous occasions, namely this year, baseball at least 3 or 4 times, girls golf finished as runner up at state by one stroke one time, football in 2013 was a 4th quarter fumble (in the red zone down only 6) return for a TD away from having a shot of knocking off Trotwood and maybe making a run to the title game, volleyball this year and last, but also from around 2007-2010, girls soccer a few times, etc.
Boys soccer finally broke through the glass ceiling the last couple of seasons, and boys cross country was able to win state in 2014 after coming close plenty of times almost every year from 2009 to 2013, but in a lot of other sports, Tipp seems to run into a wall somewhere despite having teams that are definitely "good enough".
Though with this year's boys basketball team, I feel like, although making a run to the state title game could've been a possibility (as there isn't a dominant team on this side of the bracket), whoever makes it out is destined to lose to in the title game to whoever comes out of the other side (namely looking at how dominant SVSM is, or potentially Lima Shawnee or Buchtel since they're also both very strong)