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…
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…
THURSDAY, DEC. 28 / Evansville Central High School New Albany 62 — Evansville Central 56 Consider the scenario: A frigid Thursday night, three days after Christmas. A long bus ride to Evansville. No Romeo Langford. Playing without their leader, who’d dislocated his right index finger just the night before while dunking during practice, the Class 4A No. 3 Bulldogs got…