Differences between boys and girls hoops

For all of you non-wrestling people out there, I have to admit I haven’t had as much blogging time as I’d like.

I write a wrestling report each year ranking wrestlers and predicting who will make it to state from the Northwest District in Division III. If you feel so inclined you can read about it here.

You wouldn’t believe how time consuming that was and trying to keep putting results on the NW District Wrestling Blog I maintain as well.

I can blog about the top 10 prep websites anytime.

Today’s topic is something my buddy Buster and I argued about at work recently and yes we have these friendly discussions all the time and rarely do they end in fisticuffs or hard feelings on either side.

I’d like to hear some other’s opinions on a basketball topic.
In our basketball tab, we had a big feature on Carlee Roethlisberger and how she had a chance to become Findlay’s all-time leading scorer in basketball for both the boys and the girls.

I’ve seen this other places listing a school’s all-time leading scorers and sometimes they list the boys with the girls. I argued with Buster that if a girl today is recognized as the top scorer in the schools history for both genders it wasn’t right. It’s not just basketball it’s boys basketball and girls basketball.

After all it should theoretically be easier for girls to score because they do play with a smaller ball than the boys. Since they don’t use the same equipment they shouldn’t be compared by the same standard was my argument. He disagreed.

His argument was basketball is basketball. It doesn’t matter if it’s played by boys or whether it’s played by girls. It’s still five-on-five put it in the hole. The only difference is girls play with a smaller ball because they have smaller hands.

My argument was that the smaller ball makes it mathematically easier for girls to score. Plus you never hear anyone in track and field compare boys and girls when talking about all all-time list of their school’s top throwers in the shot put and discus. That’s because boys throw a bigger implements (a 12-pound shot vs. 8-pound shot, bigger discus etc).

Is a boys 1,000 point scorer comparable to a girls 1,000 point scorer…I’m a basketball neophyte, please set me straight.

NOTEWORTHY: With the area set to be suffocated by a blanket of White Death (that’s snow to the average Ohioan) Carey has already cancelled it’s boys and girls games as I write this at 6:51 a.m. and expect other schools to follow suit. There were 18 games on The Courier schedule for tonight and I imagine all of them will be either cancelled or postponed.

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