No Convo Again This Year For Boys District Basketball Tournaments

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(UPDATED 2:30pm 2/3/22)
The Southeast District Athletic Board will be steering away from the Ohio University Convocation Center for boys district basketball tournament games again this year.

The District Board has elected to once again go with larger area high school gym neutral sites for the District Tournaments and allowing the higher seeded teams to host through the Sectional Tournaments.

One good news note is that the Ohio High School Athletic Association has changed their mind about moving Regional Boys Basketball Tournaments out of the OU Convo for 2022. Southeast District Athletic Board Member Wayne Horsley notified Litter Media on February 3rd that Ohio University had changed their mind about not allowing concession stands. OU will allow them to be open now, which has prompted the OHSAA to keep the Regional Boys Basketball Tournaments at the Convo in 2022.

Litter Media’s Mike Smith spoke with Southeast District Athletic Board member Mark Rose as to the reason why “The Convo” will not be used for boys district tournaments again this year. Rose says the Board “originally had planned to have boys semis and finals at Ohio University, but several factors played into their final decision not to go to The Convo in 2022.”

Among those reasons were several “schedule conflicts” with Ohio University. Those conflicts included events for OU Wrestling and the strong possibility that both OU Women and Men’s Basketball would be hosting first-round MAC Tournament games (due to their respective successful seasons).

Rose said the District Board had even “considered” bringing the girls district basketball tournament games back to Ohio University, where they were held for a few years in the early 2010’s. The Girls Sectional and District Tournaments have been using the format that the boys will be using again this year.

Rose says the District Board’s “hope is to return to The Convo in 2023.”

Girls Basketball Tournament Seeding will be released by the Southeast District Athletic Board at approximately 3:30pm Sunday, January 30th and the Boys Basketball Tournament Seeding on Sunday, February 6th.

Here are the breakdowns of “tournament sites” for each division in both girls and boys basketball in 2022.

GIRLS
Division 2 Sectionals (higher seeded team hosts each game)
Division 2 Districts at Southeastern High School
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Division 3 Sectionals (higher seeded teams host each game)
Division 3 District at Waverly Downtown Gym
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Division 4 Sectionals (higher seeded teams host each game)
Division 4 District at Piketon High School
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BOYS
Division 2 Sectionals (higher seeded team hosts each game)
Division 2 District at Southeastern High School
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Division 3 Sectionals (higher seeded team hosts each game)
Division 3 District at Waverly Downtown Gym
CLICK HERE FOR EMPTY DISTRICT BRACKET

Division 4 Sectionals (higher seeded team hosts each game)
Division 4 District at Wellston High School
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