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November 29, 2008

THE DISH: Hoops are anything but leftovers

By MIKE HUTSELL

Still hungry after your holiday feast. Have you spent the past few days looking for a sequel to a great opening night that featured:

• Perhaps the most dominate single-night effort in the long rivalry of Charlestown versus New Washington.

Mustang senior Vincent Minton almost set school records in both scoring and rebounding in one contest. Forty-five points, 24 rebounds and he rescued 750 dying cats from a burning Chevrolet on his way to the game. Okay, I made that last part up, maybe.

Not to go crazy with hyperbole on Minton’s performance but it was the best night in the world, possibly ever.

I’ve heard but have yet to confirm that following the win, no confirmation that Minton found an envelope with roughly $7-million cash in the parking lot after the game. He later walked past a phone booth and answered a ringing phone and on the other end Scarlett Johansson was just calling random numbers and was willing to marry the first guy who answered.

• New Albany laughing in the face of the notion that they can’t possibly live up the same lofty standards.

There was rumbling around the Internet that New Albany couldn’t match last season. That losing the stellar senior class and point guard Braydon Hobbs was too much. That there was going to be a lot of revenge on people’s minds.

Then New Albany just went about business, beating Seymour, 81-58.

While it may be crazy to expect another unbeaten, untested and untied regular season out of New Albany — simply dismissing this year’s team is sheer crazy.

I still see Donnie Hale and Tenale Roland on the Bulldog roster, they’re still there right?

That’s arguably the two best players in the Hoosier Hills Conference on the same team — don’t think New Albany is going anywhere.



On to tonight’s slate of games:

Boys’

• Silver Creek 71, Charlestown 57: Here’s news that can’t be welcome in Pirate country — the Dragons feature two players capable of posting Vincent Minton numbers. Spencer Robinson can pour in 45 points, Nick Townsend can provide the 24 rebounds. Expect the Dragons to win a bunch of games this year.

• Evansville Harrison 69, Floyd Central 63: The Warriors have beaten Floyd Central in the season opener ever year since 2001.

• Borden 75, Rock Creek Christian 64: The Braves are on a mission to prove they’re are every bit as good as they were a year ago.

• Providence 99, Indianapolis Metropolitan 90: If only because it has been requested that “The Dish” never refers to Providence as a slow-down squad.

• Henryville 51, Northeast Dubois 43: This game is part of the Loogootee Classic and the winner advances to the championship game Saturday night. Dubois’ nickname is the Jeeps. Why, well because picking another brand of sport utility vehicle wouldn’t make sense would it. Come on Northeast Dubois Excursions? Northeast Dubois Escalades? Northeast Dubois En Voys? Those names would just be silly.

• Henryville 34, Loogootee 30: If you do a Google search for legendary former Loogootee head coach Jack Butcher the third entry on the list takes you to a biography of legendary “B-list” wrestler Jack the Butcher, who’s finishing move was called the meat cleaver. Here’s guessing the Hornets deliver the meat cleaver to the tourney host in the final.

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