Rumor is that City has added Bowman, Lawrence Central, and Penn to their schedule this year.

February 5 @ Penn.

Correction - January 3.

Need new eyeware prescription.

I will go eat at Mr. G's before the game.

http://mcas.schoolwires.net/Page/6457

The link is there schedule as of now. I believe Penn is on there twice as a mistake.

Looks like the Jan 3 date is the right one.

Also looks like they did away with the Holiday tourney, that makes me sad.

I was told at the game today that City has dropped East Chicago from the schedule but has additionally picked up away games at defending 4A state champion Indianapolis Tech which was the team Elston defeated in the 1966 state championship game as well as Whitney Young on the west side of Chicago by the United Center and will also travel to Detroit for a game.

I think most of that stuff falls next year.

When the team travels to Whitney Young next year. I can take the train to Chicago and ride the CTA #20 bus to the game and stop at the World Famous Billy Goat Tavern which is a couple blocks from the school for a CHEEZBOUGER, CHEEZBOURGER, CHEEZBOUGER. There is a stuffed Billy Goat inside the tavern the owner Mr. Sam Sinais took to Wrigley Field to try to reverse the Cubs curse of the Billy Goat back in the 80s. Ironically Mr. Sam purchased that Goat from Charlie O. Finleys farm in La Porte, Indiana.

It looks like Indianapolis Tech does have Michigan City on its schedule.

http://www.maxpreps.com/high-schools/india...ll/schedule.htm

There must have been a mix up between Lawrence North and Indy Tech. Either way, another huge game to have on the schedule. With it being on a Saturday night, maybe a trip to Indy is in order?

I was told that City has 22 regular season game scheduled and coach Boyd has the entire schedule already made out.

I hear that the game at Whitney Young is actually a tournament, and that they will also play in a tournament in Detroit.

I don't know about Detroit yet, but WY is an invitational tourney, yes.

taxthedeer commentary:

I find all this news to be very encouraging that MC is going out of the area and taking on these type inner city type of opponents.

I've always felt that Michigan City High School needs to face a huge dose of reality and realize we need get away from always going against much larger suburban type schools such as Portage, Valpo, Crown Point, Lake Central and Merrillville and going up against against the public high schools from other city oriented communities such as South Bend, Elkhart, Gary, Hammond, East Chicago in addition to larger metro areas like Chicago, Indianapolis and Detroit in all of it's athletic events is where its at. That way all our kids can be playing all their games against their natural competition.

In basketball we have moved that way for sure. We added all of the SB and Elkhart schools last year, now we are adding schools like Penn and Indy Tech as well.

Does this mean what I think it means?

Yes, what is that supposed to mean?

So we are playing at Detroit County Day and at Whitney Young, in addition to the trip to Indy Tech.

Damn, that is a schedule right there.

Road trips to Whitney Young and Indianapolis Tech sound like a lot of fun but I will pass on going to Detroit.

The Indy Tech game is on Sat Dec 13. I am seriously considering that one.

Here is the complete MCHS boys hoops schedule of the MCAS website. Team will be playing as part of the MLK Dream Classic at Whitney Young High School in Chicago on Sunday 1-18-15 which is surprising because IHSAA schools typically don't play on Sundays. I don't see anything about going to Detroit which I have no desire to attend.

Wednesday 11/26/2014 Home East Chicago Central High Michigan City High School 7:30 PM
Saturday 11/29/2014 Home CONCORD Michigan City High School 6:15 PM
Saturday 12/6/2014 Home Gary West Side High Schoo Michigan City High School 7:30 PM
Tuesday 12/9/2014 Away South Bend Riley High Sch South Bend Riley High Sch 7:00 PM TBA
Saturday 12/13/2014 Away Indianapolis Arsenal Tech Indianapolis Arsenal Tech 7:30 PM TBA
Friday 12/19/2014 Away Elkhart Central High School Elkhart Central High School 7:00 PM TBA
Saturday 12/20/2014 Home Gary Roosevelt High Schoo Michigan City High School 7:30 PM
Saturday 1/3/2015 Away Penn High School Penn High School 4:00 PM TBA
Friday 1/9/2015 Away Crown Point High School Crown Point High School 7:30 PM TBA
Saturday 1/10/2015 Away Thea Bowman Leadership Academy Thea Bowman Leadership Academy 7:30 PM TBA
Friday 1/16/2015 Home Valparaiso High School Michigan City High School 7:30 PM
Sunday 1/18/2015 Away MLK Dream Classic Whitney Young HS (IL) TBA TBA
Tuesday 1/20/2015 Home Munster High School Michigan City High School 7:30 PM
Friday 1/23/2015 Home LaPorte High School Michigan City High School 7:30 PM
Saturday 1/24/2015 Home South Bend Clay High Scho Michigan City High School 7:30 PM
Friday 1/30/2015 Away Portage High School Portage High School 7:30 PM TBA
Saturday 1/31/2015 Home Hammond Bishop Noll High Michigan City High School 7:30 PM
Friday 2/6/2015 Home Chesterton High School Michigan City High School 7:30 PM
Saturday 2/7/2015 Away South Bend Adams High Sch South Bend Adams High Sch 7:00 PM TBA
Thursday 2/12/2015 Home Lake Central High School Michigan City High School 7:30 PM
Friday 2/20/2015 Away Merrillville High School Merrillville High School 7:30 PM TBA
Saturday 2/21/2015 Home South Bend Washington Hig Michigan City High School 5:30 PM
Tuesday 3/3/2015 Away SECTIONALS SECTIONALS TBA TBA

Michigan City High School would be in violation of IHSAA bylaws if the team plays in Chicago on Sunday.

9-13 No Sunday Athletic Participation
There shall be no interschool athletic Contests, school Practices or school sponsored clinics
held on Sunday. Calling One (1) or more team members together on Sunday for studying
scouting reports, viewing films of games, any kind of participation, etc. will be considered a
violation of this rule.

Unless they got a waiver.

Hopefully that is the case. I don't want the program to get into any trouble or have to withdraw from getting to play in the tournament.

Got an update on this.

The shootout they will play in is either on a Saturday or Monday, but they don't know when they are playing yet. The guess is the AD just put Sunday as a placeholder on the schedule, but they won't play on Sunday for sure.

Michigan City is playing in the Motor City Roundball Classic on December 26th in Haper Woods, MI.

Here is the schedule. I am hoping for 13 or 14 wins. A DAC and Sectional title.

13 wins with that schedule would be really amazing. A DAC and sectional title are pretty realistic though. There isn't a lot of big talent in the DAC this year.

I hope you are right as it is about time to get the roundball out but let's step back and be realistic too. I can't recall the last sectional title the Wolves have won? Didn't the Wolves graduate their best player too? I'm sure they can have a solid team but let's not get ahead of ourselves. Didn't LP crush us in sectionals last year? I would have to think everyone thinks the conference is winnable not just MC. Any idea who the starting five will be and who do you replace Keenan with?

LaPorte is going to be pretty bad this year. They will be lucky to win a conference game. Hemphill will be the go to guy this year.

The starting 5 might look like this.

Jaronde Boyd
Troy Jones
Shanquan Hemphill
Brad Pawloski
Shayne Barron

So we should expect more 48-42 type games this season as well. Is anyone else sick of seeing games where a team scores 8 points in a quarter? It would be one thing if it was great "D" but it is move the ball around the perimeter and fire up a 3. Are any of the boys from MC going to be able to play in the paint? As much as I see those kids running from the High School to Wal-Mart they should be able to run for 32 minutes and put up 80 to 90 points every night. What am I missing? Is it that the suburban schools with their "un-natural competition" are taking us out of our game?

LaPorte lost every key player to their sectional championship team. I see Michigan City at the top of the conference this year, but their non conference schedule is what is going to be tough this year. They did lose Keenan Simmons as their top player, but I also know that they looked to him too much down the stretch of the season when other teams were keying in on him. If we can get a balanced attack from starters and bench players, and not look to one guy to do all the scoring then I think Michigan City will compete at the top of the conference. I do believe there will be a lack of a post presence, but I don't see any team in the conference with strong post presence besides Crown Point.
I still think the point guard position is a key problem because Boyd is not a floor facilitator. I do hope Michael Miller does a good job and Coach has no other option to playing him, so his son isn't on the floor jacking up ill-advised 3 pointers and driving into the lane and throwing up a shot.

Keenan Simmons is gone, that is true.

The great news is this team has a ton of talent coming back. The freshman class we had last year was one of the best in the entire state of Indiana. Add to that Hemphill, Barron, Crawford, and Pawloski, and you have a really good HS basketball team. It isn't one that is going to win state, but in a year where the DAC graduated almost all of its top players, it is a year we can make a case for being the best in Sectional 2 and the DAC.

LaPorte and Lake Central both graduated everyone who was any good. LP is going to be terrible this year. They will challenge Portage for last place.

The top teams to look out for are Crown Point, who returns as much, or maybe a bit more talent than MC, but has never been able to play well together, Merrillville who is pretty well reloaded, and Valpo who has a level less talent, and is pretty young, but it always dangerous.

Chesterton returns the top player in the DAC in one Chris Palembizio, but the kid is what we call in baseball a million dollar arm, and a 10 cent head. They also graduated everyone else good on that team.

This is going to be a team that can shoot and run. I think we saw a lot of waiting around for Keenan to take over the game, as the young kids actually deferred to him too much. Hemphill alone has the potential to average 20 a night. There isn't a defender in the DAC who will be able to stop him from going to the rim if he decides to do so.

I can't believe I forgot about Miller. The kid is a great floor general and leader. He is the teams X factor this year.

Here is my starting 5.

Boyd
Jones
Miller
Barron
Hemphill

Next 5
Pawloski
Crawford
Stewart
Smallwood
Games

The great thing is there are still a couple of other kids off of the JV team would could steal a spot on that bench if other guys aren't ready to go.

I can see Pawloski taking over more of a scoring role as long as he can stay consistent, and take the ball to the hole and balance his scoring attack. I also think that Jones will be an important factor as the key defender for the oppositions best player.

Brad made a nice leap last year. If anything happens to the starting line up, he is the next guy in. Troy Jones is the teams most talented player after Hemphill. I think Troy could end up as a PG on the next level if he keeps improving from year to year.

I could see Jones doing that as well. I also think that Crawford and Smallwood should see quite a bit of playing time being rebounding factors. I believe that Barron will be in the paint more this year with the absence of Simmons.

If Smallwood and Crawford show up ready to go, there are big man minutes to be had. I think we will see Barron run more post time too, as this team is loaded in the back court.

I'd like to see Troy Jones be the 2 this season. Let him take over the scoring load if Hemphill gets in foul trouble.

With Boyd on the team, he will be playing a lot of 2 this year.

Who really thinks Boyd should be starting besides his dad? It's going to be just like last year, when it comes crunch time Miller, Pawloski, and Barron are there to save the team. If we didn't even start him in the first place we would be leading games the whole time. I just don't see anything positive that Boyd does on the floor.

It doesn't matter really what anyone else thinks since Boyd is the man and the guy getting paid to make those decisions. Agree or not that is the reality.

It's funny how even kids on the team will tell you that he is the worst PG in the DAC. Do you think his kid deserves to be starting?

He wouldn't have started at all last year, but the ridiculous amount of injuries they had to start the season, and Marquette holding up the transfer of Mike Miller. He might even have started on JV last year.

Anybody know when the Blue/Grey Scrimmage at the Den is the this year, and if they have any other scrimmages before the opener on the 29th?

These are the sectionals hosts for the Winter Sports Season 2014-2015. Michigan City will host Boys Basketball Regional and Girls Basketball Sectional.

According to the .PDF Merrillville will host the boys sectional and Michigan City will host the girls sectional.

Boys regionals will be at Michigan City and Girls regionals will be at La Porte.

The scrimmage is the 25th.