Boys tournaments set

I have to be honest with you.
The OHSAA boys sectional basketball tournament gets underway tomorrow and the opening round match ups are yawners.
Heck there’s only a handful of teams tonight with a winning record playing in our coverage area at The Courier tomorrow.
I’m covering the tournament at Riverdale. Carey vs. Arcadia and Hopewell-Loudon vs. Colonel Crawford.
Who knows though, maybe one of these teams will be the surprise of the tournament and make it to the regional. Wouldn’t that be something?
I kind of doubt it though.
Things really don’t heat up until districts. I don’t see as many stacked sectionals in the boys bracket this season compared to the girls bracket. We’ll opine on the ladies tomorrow.

Until then here is the area boys basketball tournament schedule for tomorrow:


Boys PREP BASKETBALL
Tuesday's Sectional Semifinals
Division II
At Sandusky Senior
Fostoria vs. Port Clinton
Division III
AT LIMa Central Catholic
Paulding (0-15) vs. Bluffton (13-3), 7
Division IV
At Lima Bath
Pandora-Gilboa (8-7) vs. Cory-Rawson
Lima Temple Christian (5-10) vs. Riverdale (3-11)
At Ottawa-Glandorf
North Baltimore (6-10) vs. McComb (2-12)
Leipsic (0-15) vs. Miller City (7-8)
At Hopewell-Loudon
Bettsville (2-12) vs. Old Fort (4-10)
Tiffin Calvert (7-7) vs. Fostoria St. Wendelin (5-10)
At Van Wert
Fort Jennings (4-10) vs. Delphos St. John's (4-12), 7
At Riverdale
Arcadia (3-12) vs. Carey (9-6)
Hopewell-Loudon (5-9) vs. Colonel Crawford (4-12)
At Kenton
Upper Scioto Valley (2-13) vs. Hardin Northern (3-9)
NOTE: First game listed begins at 6:15, unless noted, while second game begins 30 minutes after conclusion of first game.

King Jon

Well tonight’s the night.
There’s a pretty good chance Upper Sandusky’s Jon Diebler will be the new Ohio High School boys prep scoring king. He only needs I think 48 points in tonight’s home game against Norwalk to set the record of 2,958 career points set by John Glenn’s Jay Burson in 1985.
Usually, I like covering a story like this it’s a big event, check that, monumental event in Ohio prep history. But there will be so many media members there...I’m very glad I’ll be covering the Division III district wrestling tournament at Owens Community College instead.
A player like Jon Diebler doesn’t come around every day. Especially at a school the size of Upper Sandusky. And to become Ohio’s prep all-time leading scorer...that’s big.
But honestly it isn’t Diebler’s talent alone that’s allowed him to set the mark. It’s talent combined with Upper Sandusky’s uptempo style of play that’s made it possible for him to score nearly 3,000 points in his career. Oh and I can’t forget a surrounding cast of pretty good teammates, solid players in their own right, like Drew McClellan and sophomore Alex Falk.
Would Diebler have been able to set the record at a place like say Bettsville, who typically struggles each year, or Holgate which slows the game to a crawl? I’m not sure but it’s an interesting question to ponder.

Anyway here are the top 10 Ohio prep boys scorers of all-time:
1. Jay Burson, New Concord John Glenn (1981-85) 2,958
2. Jon Diebler, Upper Sandusky (2003-07) 2,916
3. Geno Ford, Cambridge (1989-93) 2,680
4. LeBron James, St. Vincent-St. Mary (1999-03) 2,646
5. Rex Leach, Vienna Mathews (1951-55) 2,581
6. Mike Phillips, Manchester (1970-74) 2,573
7. Bill Szabo, Oberlin Firelands (1976-80) 2,567
8. Nate Davis, Bellaire (2002-06) 2,562
9. Larry Huston, Savannah (1951-55) 2,492
10. Jerry Lucas, Middletown (1955-58) 2,460

Who is Ohio’s greatest prep basketball player of all time? Is it LeBron? Is it someone else and where does Diebler rank?
Some of you out there know way more basketball than I do so you tell me.

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