It's getting close to tournament time again at the Fieldhouse! Here are this year's teams in the DII Canton District, followed by a link to the "unofficial" site of the DII Canton District tournament, at which you will find team records, scores, schedules, league standings, and eventually tournament information with dates, times, and a complete bracket.

Alliance Aviators
(Akron) Archbishop Hoban Knights
(Akron) Buchtel Griffins
Canton South Wildcats
(Akron) Coventry Comets
(Navarre) Fairless Falcons
(Akron) Kenmore Cardinals
Louisville Leopards
(Alliance) Marlington Dukes
(Canal Fulton) Northwest Indians
Norton Panthers
(Akron) Springfield Spartans
(Akron) St. Vincent-St. Mary Irish

http://www.ohiobasketball.net/canton/

Pleae feel free to help out with missing scores/updated reschedule dates. Thanks!

The Fieldhouse will be empty the entire tourney. Half of these teams have no following. I will miss Minerva, Triway and Orrville. In years past, we went every night for D2, I will bet we only go once or twice this year.

jlghoops wrote: The Fieldhouse will be empty the entire tourney. Half of these teams have no following. I will miss Minerva, Triway and Orrville. In years past, we went every night for D2, I will bet we only go once or twice this year.

Orrville fans will miss it too. We had our struggles over there the past few years, but the Fieldhouse will always be a place filled with memories. I went to watch McK earlier this year and hope to go back if Orrville makes regionals.

Hopefully the Poland Bulldogs will be running into one of these teams in the Canton Regional.

RedRider1 wrote:

jlghoops wrote: The Fieldhouse will be empty the entire tourney. Half of these teams have no following. I will miss Minerva, Triway and Orrville. In years past, we went every night for D2, I will bet we only go once or twice this year.

Orrville fans will miss it too. We had our struggles over there the past few years, but the Fieldhouse will always be a place filled with memories. I went to watch McK earlier this year and hope to go back if Orrville makes regionals.

Triway, too, misses the Fieldhouse. We also have great memories there and will feel "at home" if we happen to make it to regionals. But wow, ever since we left, the competition has gotten harsher and harsher with the Akron schools coming in.

Everything is up on my web site:
http://www.ohiobasketball.net/canton/tournament.aspx

Wow...Northwest, Alliance and South at the BOTTOM? How quickly things change over there.

Might as well call this the Akron "south" district.

RedRider1 wrote: Wow...Northwest, Alliance and South at the BOTTOM? How quickly things change over there.

Might as well call this the Akron "south" district.

7 OF 13 from Summitt County and 6 of the top 8 seeds, with ony Louisville and Marlington in the top 8, but they could be out in the sectional final, this district definitely has changed without Orrville, Triway, and Minerva not there and adding Kenmore and Hoban, Definitely lacks any local interest.

I gotta think the local interest will be at the Civic Center this year.

Timken, Hoover, Jackson etc....

Too bad...nothing like a full Fieldhouse. Louisville & South could always be counted on for a big turnout.

It'd be interesting to see Fairless and Canton South go at it... one program was left in shambles, and the other is being led there.

3 teams from Akron, still in the running.

Lets Go Griffs!!

The life has been sucked out of this once great sectional site. Quality of teams and the backing of their fans is so lacking from the past. I miss the Triway/Canton South, Minerva/Louisville and Orrville/Marlington type battles that kept the house 80% full.

I'm not sure I can agree with the quality of teams argument, of the 4 teams left you have not only the defending State Champs but you also have the current AP Poll champs. Granted the fan support might not be there, but that was more to do with addresses of the schools, than the quality of their programs. If you had those 4 teams playing in the Jar, it would be a packed house.

^^Probably true.

hubman wrote: I'm not sure I can agree with the quality of teams argument, of the 4 teams left you have not only the defending State Champs but you also have the current AP Poll champs. Granted the fan support might not be there, but that was more to do with addresses of the schools, than the quality of their programs. If you had those 4 teams playing in the Jar, it would be a packed house.

You mean to tell me that the 15 miles between the Fieldhouse and the Jar is going to bring 4500 more fans? The Akron schools just dont have the following at Sectional level that the Stark County and Wayne County schools have. Sure St V will draw a crowd down the road, but not early on. Buchtel had less than 150 people at sectional final and I am being generous. I will re-state my quality thought....the quality of teams from top to bottom has decreased immensely at this sectional. Anyone that was at FH last Friday night will agree that the first game was great and the second game was a dog with fleas. Had all the Marlington and Louisville fans left after first game, less than 500 would have watched that ugly blowout.

jlghoops wrote:

hubman wrote: I'm not sure I can agree with the quality of teams argument, of the 4 teams left you have not only the defending State Champs but you also have the current AP Poll champs. Granted the fan support might not be there, but that was more to do with addresses of the schools, than the quality of their programs. If you had those 4 teams playing in the Jar, it would be a packed house.

You mean to tell me that the 15 miles between the Fieldhouse and the Jar is going to bring 4500 more fans? The Akron schools just dont have the following at Sectional level that the Stark County and Wayne County schools have. Sure St V will draw a crowd down the road, but not early on. Buchtel had less than 150 people at sectional final and I am being generous. I will re-state my quality thought....the quality of teams from top to bottom has decreased immensely at this sectional. Anyone that was at FH last Friday night will agree that the first game was great and the second game was a dog with fleas. Had all the Marlington and Louisville fans left after first game, less than 500 would have watched that ugly blowout.

Following does not equal quality, just because Buchtel, STV and Kenmore do not pack the house a city away, does not mean they are not better teams than the ones dropped from this District. Buchtel and Kenmore have already played twice this year in Akron and both games had at least 1200 people in the stands. Fans of the Griffs and Cardinals are not used to traveling, they play in a league where the farthest team away is still on the public bus line.