SEYMOUR, INDIANA — It was a “tale of two teams” kind of season for this year’s New Albany squad. The young Bulldogs looked like a Top 20 contender in wins over Carmel, Zionsville and Evansville Reitz, and close losses to Jeff and Floyd Central. And they looked average at times — against Evansville North (a home loss at the buzzer), Seymour…
There are no do-overs in basketball. Sometimes, though, you get a chance to get it right the next time. Friday night at the Doghouse was one such occasion. The Senior Night crowd was hungry for spoiling Bedford North Lawrence’s party — led by senior guard Brayton Bailey, the Stars came to town on an eight-game winning streak and needing a…
New Albany’s Maddox Schmelz breaks open to receive an assist from Julien Hunter. Schmelz scored six points in New Albany’s 56-43 win at Jennings County on Thursday. NORTH VERNON, INDIANA — The last time New Albany traveled to Jennings County, on a snowy Thursday night in early February 2018, Romeo Langford lit up the scoreboard for 63 points and the…
New Albany came through a tune-up weekend no worse for the wear and with just what the doctor ordered: victories over two smaller regional rivals with upsets on their minds. After a narrow road win at Madison on Friday, the Dogs returned to the Doghouse on Saturday to defeat Scottsburg, 48-33, behind a big night from Jordan Thomas. The 6-foot-7…
New Albany and Jeffersonville have staged more classics in their long-running basketball series than anyone can count. Here’s an argument for adding Friday’s regular-season renewal — Jeff won 59-52 in overtime at The Doghouse — to that illustrious list. After all of the momentum shifts and adrenaline rushes you’d expect in a rivalry game, it reached epic status over the…
Check out this short film from Jan. 19, 2018, when the New Albany Bulldogs took on the Princeton Vikings out of Cincinnati.
Saturday, Jan. 13 / NEW ALBANY 112, SCOTTSBURG 48 BY CARY STEMLE In basketball, a letdown doesn’t always mean defeat. When victory is a foregone conclusion, the goal becomes good execution, at a time when it’s just as easy to fall into bad habits as the coach rants about running the usual sets. The New Albany Bulldogs showed where their…
BY CARY STEMLE Some 15 hours after concluding an 85-61 rout of their bitter rivals from Jeffersonville, the New Albany Bulldogs were at Bankers Life Arena in Indianapolis to take on the Silver Creek Dragons. The contest was part of a daylong series of games, at multiple sites, called Basketball Day Indiana, organized and broadcast by Fox Sports to highlight…
Still working on those video skills … but here’s what New Albany coach Jim Shannon had to say after the Bulldogs beat Jeffersonville, 85-61, on Friday, Jan. 5, 2018.
In my preview of Friday’s annual New Albany-Jeffersonville tilt, I pondered whether anyone on the laidback Bulldogs squad will emerge as an outwardly emotional figure during the second half of the season. That’s still an open question, but what’s no longer up for debate is how New Albany star Romeo Langford would respond to widespread social media taunts from Red…