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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 13, 2005 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 17 Friday, March 18, Continued Boys Basketball-Semifinals Boys Basketball-Semifinals 10:45 Div. II: Wooster Triway (22-3) vs. Columbus Linden 5:15 Div. I: Mansfield Senior (24-1) vs. Canton McKinley (24-1) McKinley (11-14) 8:30 Div. I: Cincinnati St. Xavier (20-5) vs. Cincinnati 2:00 Div. II: Dayton Dunbar (22-4) vs. Upper Sandusky (25-0) Archbishop Moeller (22-3) 5:15 Div. IV: Cleveland Heights Lutheran East (20-5) vs. Minster (21-4) Saturday, March 19 8:30 Div. IV: Continental (22-3) vs. Columbus Africentric Boys Basketball-Finals Secondary (25-1) 10:45 Division II Friday, March 18 2:00 Division IV Boys Basketball-Semifinals 5:15 Division III 10:45 Div. III: Loudonville (22-3) vs. Cincinnati North College 8:30 Division I Hill (25-1) 2:00 Div. III: Ironton (25-0) vs. Archbold (24-1) WHAT: 83rd 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.) TIMES/EVENTS: Semifinals—Thursday in Divisions II and IV and Friday in Divisions III and I; Finals— Saturday in all four divisions. The complete schedule is listed above. TICKETS: $10.00 tickets remain for each game 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). 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 “Media/News Releases,” 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). Once on the site, go to the “Visitors/Sports & Event Parking” area. 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. Jeff Phelps, Jay Burson and Stephanie Mennecke will describe the Division II final at 10:45; Tim Bray, Ron Stokes and Mennecke will call the Division IV game at 2:00; Phelps, Burson and Arica Robbins will work the Division III championship at 5:15 and Bray, Stokes and Robbins will describe the Division I final at 8:30. Dan Fronczak will serve as host, with Dave Cecutti providing commentary. ONN will also provide updates during the 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. RADIO: The following 11 stations are scheduled to cover all 12 state semifinal and final games live: WBNO-FM, Bryan; WKKI-FM, Celina; WFIN-AM, Findlay; WFOB-AM, Fostoria; WIMA-AM, Lima; WMOA-AM/WJAW- — MORE — OHSAA WINTER SPORTS TOURNAMENTS -2-2-2 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 (www.cleveland.com) will provide 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. 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 seventh straight year, the state tournaments return to Ohio State’s Value City Arena at the Jerome Schottenstein Center. Last April, the OHSAA Board of Control picked up a three-year option for the arena to host the state wrestling, girls basketball and boys basketball tournaments in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Of the 82 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 $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. There have been seven sellouts during the state tournament while at Value City Arena: 1.) 18,541 (2003 Div. II final, Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary vs. Kettering Archbishop Alter); 2.) 18,504 (2003 Div. II semifinal, Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary vs. Canton South); 3.) 18,435 (2002 Div. II final, Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary vs. St. Bernard Roger Bacon); 4.) 18,430 (2002 Div. II semifinal, Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary vs. Poland Seminary); 5.) 18,307 (2004 Div. II final, Ottawa-Glandorf vs. Canal Fulton Northwest); 6.) 18,071 (2001 Div. III final, Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary vs. Casstown Miami East); 7.) 18,033 (2001 Div. I semifinal, Columbusw Brookhaven vs. Cincinnati Elder). PREVIEW: Five former state champions and all four of the Associated Press’s regular season poll champions comprise the field for the 83rd annual OHSAA Boys State Basketball Tournaments, the seventh to be held in Ohio State’s Value City Arena at the Jerome Schottenstein Center. Former champs are Canton McKinley, Cincinnati St. Xavier and Cincinnati Archbishop Moeller in Division I and Columbus Linden McKinley and Dayton Dunbar in Division II. Three of the qualifiers are making their first state tournament appearances. Division I: Top-ranked Canton McKinley (24-1) headlines the Division I field. The Bulldogs have made the most state tournament appearances of any Ohio school (27) and won their only state title in 1984.