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BIG EAST CONFERENCE
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West Carrollton has a major rebuilding project on its hands with the volleyball and girls basketball programs, and athletic director Rob Dement thinks he has the right architects to create the blueprints.
Dement recently hired Heath Starcher as the head coach of the volleyball team and Craig Harden to lead the girls basketball program.
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Dan McKiernan spent the past 48 winters coaching high school basketball teams, racing through life at a blazing pace.
But that was yesterday. He now spends his days relaxing with his wife, Flo, and their two cats, Casey and Lucky. He dabbles in fantasy football. He offers thanks to his God for surviving triple- bypass heart surgery last month.
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HIGH SCHOOL
BOYS BASKETBALL
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The National Basketball Association claims to sell entertainment. Part of that entertainment is close, competitive contests with uncertain outcomes. However, hometown fans want the home team to win. Hence, the optimal probability that the home team wins a game, from the perspective of maximizing demand, lays somewhere between 0.5 and 1.0. Using data from individual games for the 2001-02 season, this optimal probability was estimated to be approximately 0.66. Fans want their home team to have about twice the chance to win a game as the visiting team.
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[Trent Jackson] mentioned his affinity for an up-tempo pace, and the competitive opening provided just that with both teams pushing the ball at every chance. "Up-tempo" would be a perfect nickname for [Nikki Speed] who constantly attacked [Ayala] with every offensive move in the book. Rebounder deluxe, [Talia Caldwell], held the fort with 11 points, while [Rebekah Gardner] had 12 for Ayala who led 16-18 after one quarter. With each team applying intense pressure, the ball changed hands frequently from steals, forced, and unforced errors. The Bulldogs would extend the lead to eight, but Marlborough pulled within two before stingily giving ground at the end of the second quarter. At the half, Ayala led 26-32.
Late in the fourth quarter, Caldwell scored a lay up with 1:10 left to get withi...
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The Final Top Twenty Five
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' final 2010-11 college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through March 13, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking:
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Dalton sprung an upset in the Wayne County Athletic League by knocking off visiting Hillsdale, and Loudonville remained undefeated with a win over Mid-Buckeye Conference foe Fredericktown. The big wins highlighted a busy day of girls basketball on Saturday.
Dalton 52, Hillsdale 50 OT