News Releases for Additional Information on the 16 State Semifinalists
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OHIO HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ews elease 4080N Roselea Place, Columbus, OH 43214R • Commissioner Daniel B. Ross, Ph.D. (614) 267-2502 • FAX (614) 267-1677 • www.ohsaa.org For Immediate Release March 19, 2006 Contact Bob Goldring, Dir. of Information Winter Release #5 OHSAA BOYS BASKETBALL STATE TOURNAMENTS (All Games at Value City Arena at the Jerome Schottenstein Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus) Thursday, March 23 Friday, March 24, Continued Boys Basketball-Semifinals Boys Basketball-Semifinals 10:45 Div. IV: Lockland (23-3) vs. South Webster (24-2) 5:15 Div. I: Canton McKinley (23-2) vs. Toledo St. John’s Jesuit 2:00 Div. IV: Windham (22-3) vs. Columbus Grove (20-5) (21-5) 5:15 Div. III: Archbold (21-4) vs. Cincinnati North College Hill 8:30 Div. I: Trotwood-Madison (21-5) vs. Lancaster (25-1) (24-1) 8:30 Div. III: Cleveland Villa Angela-St. Joseph (20-5) vs. Saturday, March 25 Wheelersburg (23-2) Boys Basketball-Finals Friday, March 24 10:45 Division IV Boys Basketball-Semifinals 2:00 Division III 10:45 Div. II: Wooster Triway (25-0) vs. Columbus St. Francis 5:15 Division II DeSales (19-6) 8:30 Division I 2:00 Div. II: Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary (21-3) vs. Dayton Dunbar (24-2) WHAT: 84th Annual Boys State Basketball Tournaments WHEN/WHERE: Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Value City Arena at the Jerome Schottenstein Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus (555 Borror Dr., corner of Lane Avenue and Olentangy River Rd.) TIME/EVENTS: Semifinals—Thursday in Divisions IV and III and Friday in Divisions II and I; Finals— Saturday in all four divisions. The complete schedule is listed above. TICKETS: $10.00 tickets remain for each session (each contest in the tournament is a separate session) and are currently on sale at the Ohio State Athletic Ticket Office in the southeast corner of the Schottenstein Center (1- 800-GO-BUCKS or 614-292-2624). Game day tickets can be purchased at the Value City Arena ticket office, which is located in the southeast corner of the arena. MEDIA CREDENTIALS: Fax requests to Bob Goldring, OHSAA Director of Information, at 614-267-1677 prior to noon Tuesday. If not already received, all credentials will be held at the Fred Taylor Room, located just off the Northeast Rotunda entrance (corner facing Olentangy River Road and the Fawcett Center). Information will be posted on the OHSAA web site (www.ohsaa.org) regarding the status of your application. Once on the home page of the web site, go to “OHSAA News & Media,” and the information will be available on that page. A list will also be posted of those media members who have been approved for credentials. The approved list will be posted by 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday. MEDIA PARKING: If not already received, parking passes will be held for media members at an area hotel. Information will be posted on the OHSAA web site. Parking is at a premium and not all requests will be honored. FAN PARKING: Free parking is available at the lots around the Schottenstein Center, including the Buckeye lots, which are located at the north end of Fred Taylor Drive just off of Ackerman Rd. Free shuttles will transport fans who park in those lots to and from the arena. Additional information on spectator parking is posted on The Ohio State University Transporation and Parking Services web site: (www.tp.ohio-state.edu/alerts/OHSAA/ohsaaindex.shtml). DIRECTIONS: To get to Value City Arena, take State Route 315 to the Lane Avenue exit. If coming from the north, turn left (east) onto Lane Avenue; if coming from the south, turn right (east) onto Lane Avenue. At the first intersection, turn left (north) onto Fred Taylor Drive and you will see the arena on the right. A second route is to take State Route 315 to the Ackerman Road exit, located just north of the Lane Avenue exit. If coming from the north, turn left (east) onto Ackerman Road; if coming from the south, turn right (east) onto Ackerman. At the first main intersection, turn right (south) onto Fred Taylor Drive and you will see the arena on the left. HOTELS: A list of Columbus-area hotels along with telephone numbers is posted on the OHSAA web site (www.ohsaa.org). TELEVISION: The Ohio News Network will cablecast all four championship games live on Saturday. Tim Bray and Jay Burson will describe the Division II and IV games, with Dave Chudowsky providing sideline reports, and Paul Keels and Ron Stokes will call the Division I and III contests, with Arica Robbins providing updates from the sideline. ONN will also cablecast Friday’s Division I semifinals on a tape-delay basis, will provide live updates during the other semifinals and will have highlight shows at 11:30. The Ohio News Network is Ohio’s 24-hour cable news, weather and sports channel. For a complete ONN channel listing, visit the ONN web site at www.OhioNewsNow.com. Various stations throughout the state may telecast the semifinal games on a tape-delay basis. Check local list- ings for coverage details. — MORE — OHSAA WINTER SPORTS TOURNAMENTS -2-2-2 RADIO: The following 10 stations are scheduled to cover all 12 state semifinal and final games live: WBNO-FM, Bryan; WKKI-FM, Celina; WFOB-AM, Fostoria; WIMA-AM, Lima; WMOA-AM/WJAW-FM, Marietta/ McConnelsville; ESPN 990 (WTIG-AM), Massillon; WNDH-FM, Napoleon; WPTW-AM, Piqua; WKSD-FM, Van Wert; and WQKT-FM, Wooster. In addition, Cleveland.Com, Struzzin.Net and MM Productions (Ottawa) will provide internet audio play-by-play from the tournament. Other radio stations around the state will also cover selected teams from their area on a game-by-game basis. Check local listings for coverage details. STATE TOURNAMENT COACHES/MEDIA TELECONFERENCE MARCH 20: A State Tournament Teleconference featuring the head coaches of the 16 state qualifiers will be held on Monday, March 20. Each head coach will be on the teleconference for 15 minutes. The question-and-answer sessions begin at 10:00 a.m. and will conclude at 2:15 p.m. The OHSAA will provide a teleconference moderator. The exact schedule is listed below. 10:00 to 10:15 Div. IV - Lockland 12:10-12:25 Div. II - Wooster Triway 10:15 to 10:30 Div. IV - South Webster 12:25-12:40 Div. II - Columbus St. Francis DeSales 10:30-10:45 Div. IV - Windham 12:40-12:55 Div. II - Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary 10:45-11:00 Div. IV - Columbus Grove 12:55-1:10 Div. II - Dayton Dunbar 11:05-11:20 Div. III - Archbold 1:15-1:30 Div. I - Canton McKinley 11:20-11:35 Div. III - Cincinnati North College Hill 1:30-1:45 Div. I - Toledo St. John’s Jesuit 11:35-11:50 Div. III - Cleveland Villa Angela-St. Joseph 1:45-2:00 Div. I - Trotwood-Madison 11:50-12:05 Div. III - Wheelersburg 2:00-2:15 Div. I - Lancaster WEB SITE: The OHSAA will post box scores from the tournament immediately following each game. Once you access the web site (www.ohsaa.org), go to “Sports & Tournaments” followed by “ Basketball-Boys.” TV STATIONS PLANNING LIVE SHOTS: Regulations at the Jerome Schottenstein Center do not allow sta- tions to run cable in the arena since the arena has been prewired. Therefore, stations who plan to go live either must pay a connection fee to use one of the open connector positions, or you must be self-supporting (no con- nections into the arena) and go live from the parking lot west of the arena where a special area has been reserved for satellite trucks and there are production pedestals. A third option is that the Schottenstein Center has base- band fiber routing to two Satellite Teleports in the Columbus area for “C-Band” uplinking. Contant UNITS A/V Chief Engineer Chris Pezzutti (614-292-6990) for rates and scheduling details. If you plan on going live, please call Mark Smith, video coordinator at the Schottenstein Center, at 614-688-5359, to final- ize ALL plans. RETURNING TO VALUE CITY ARENA: For the eighth straight year, the state tournaments return to Ohio State’s Value City Arena at the Jerome Schottenstein Center. This is the second of a three-year contract for the facility to host the OHSAA state wrestling, girls basketball and boys basketball tournaments. Of the 83 state boys basketball tournaments held prior to this year, all but nine have been held in Columbus. Between 1957 and 1998, 40 of the 42 state tournaments were played at Ohio State’s St. John Arena. The excep- tions during that period were in 1986 and ‘87 when the University of Dayton hosted the event at the UD Arena. The tournaments moved to Value City Arena in 1999. The $105 million Schottenstein Center was named after the late Jerome Schottenstein, a Columbus native whose leadership as chairman was the source of the growth and success of the Schottenstein Stores Corporation, Value City Department Stores and Value City Furniture. The arena, which is the largest in the Big Ten Conference, has a capacity of approximately 19,230 for the OHSAA state tournaments. ATTENDANCE FIGURES: Total attendance at the 12-session 2003 tournament set an all-time record with 193,880, an average of 16,073 per game. The Division II final game between Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary and Kettering Archbishop Alter set a state tournament single-game attendance record of 18,541.