By GREG MENGELT The Hoosier Hills Hoops Boys’ Power Poll is a weekly feature each Sunday, ranking the top girls’ teams in Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Scott and Washington counties. 1. Silver Creek (1-0). The defending state champions will stay No. 1 until they lose … or one of the teams below would have to do […]

By GREG MENGELT The Hoosier Hills Hoops Girls’ Power Poll is a weekly feature each Sunday, ranking the top girls’ teams in Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Scott and Washington counties. 1. Silver Creek (7-0, Last Week: No. 1). The Dragons are the easy No. 1 so far. Next week: vs. Bowling Green (Friday at Owensboro, Ky.), […]

By GREG MENGELT NASSAU, Bahamas — Kooper Jacobi and the Toledo Rockets completed a successful trip to the Bahamas with a 79-70 win over Coastal Carolina to claim the Baha Mar Hoops Nassau Championship title Wednesday. Jacobi, a Silver Creek graduate, went 1 for 5 from the field for 2 points in the win. He […]

By GREG MENGELT NASSAU, Bahamas — Freshman Kooper Jacobi didn’t score Tuesday, but his Toledo teammates didn’t need him to. The Rockets defeated Tulane 68-67 in the semifinal round of the Baha Mar Hoops Nassau Championship at the Baha Mar Convention Center in the Bahamas. After Tulane’s Jalen Cook’s layup cut Toledo’s lead to 68-67, […]

By GREG MENGELT Silver Creek is riding a rare 3-year reign as state champions. One of the state’s all-time great runs … with the 2020 postseason caveat, of course. Creek will look a little different this season. Trey Kaufman-Renn is now redshirting at Purdue and Kooper Jacobi is averaging 3.8 points and 4.3 rebounds as […]

By GREG MENGELT After a couple easy early wins and a surprisingly comfortable win over Charlestown in previous weeks, Silver Creek’s schedule suddenly got very difficult last week. All the Dragons (6-0) have done since Nov. 17 is beat Charlestown (4-2) and previously-unbeaten Corydon Central (7-1) in Mid-Southern Conference games and take down the area’s […]