Worthington Summer League

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6/14/05

Familiar Faces Set To Compete In Summer League


J.J. Sullinger

By Kyle Lamb
Date: Jun 14, 2005

Looking for some basketball action? Head on down to the Worthington Summer League, which will be tipping off this week. The league will once again feature many OSU basketball players from both past and present teams as well as some other names you may be familiar with. Check out Kyle Lamb's preview of this year's summer league action.

For those that make the annual expedition to Worthington for the McDonald’s Summer League, Thursday is the day to begin muttering the familiar phrase, “I’m loving it.”

This Thursday, June 16th, the McDonald’s Summer League begins play at Thomas Worthington High School at 6:30 PM with games also at 7:45 and 9:00 PM. It will give basketball fans a chance to see several former, current, and future Ohio State basketball players as well as many others.

This year, like always, the league will be set up in two divisions, with the regular season running until July 13th. Then, the playoffs will run from July 14th until July 21st.

In the past, Ohio State head coach Jim O’Brien used to assign his players to certain teams. However, we understand that this season, Thad Matta has decided to let the returning players choose their own teams. We understand from league officials that not all current Ohio State players have yet finalized which team they will play for, and obviously not all rosters are yet complete.

Given that fact, we do not yet know which teams Matt Terwilliger, Jamar Butler, or Ivan Harris will be playing on. Last season, Terwilliger and Butler played for DSW Warehouse, which will not be fielding a team this season.

College teams are permitted to have two (2) players under a letter-of-intent on a given summer league team by NCAA rules.

Here are the teams with the notable players in parentheses as of the rosters that have been submitted to the league as recently as June 13th.

Wolves Divsision

Buckeye Corner (Ron Lewis, J.J. Sullinger, Tony Stockman)
Berwick Party House
Andrews Insurance (Matt Sylvester)
Precision Cylinder (Ed McCants)
Chorpenning Good
HER Hunt
Donatos (Rob Summers and possibly Ron Lewis)
Prudential Realtors
New Covenant Church

Cardinals Division

Cordray for Treasurer
City Wide (Kevin Weakley, Bryan Weakley, Jason Weakley, Jeff Gibbs)
HER King (Brian Brown & Carlos Davis)
Safe Auto (Andrew Lavender, NeShaun Coleman, Jermaine Tate, Troy Smith, Carmelo Anthony, Gary Trent)
Columbus Christian Center
College Bound Athletes Connection
Mitchell McKinney (Antonio Watson, Shun Jenkins, Shaun Smith)
Union Savings Bank (Terence Dials, Brayden Bell, Sylvester Mayes, Je’Kel Foster, Scoonie Penn)
Ohio Dominican

We must note that although it’s not a misprint Carmelo Anthony is listed for Safe Auto, we have no reason to believe you should head to Worthington expecting to see him actually playing.

Along those lines, in addition to Terwilliger, Butler, and Harris who all will be playing on one of the 18 teams, there are other names to watch for that have been in the league in the past and could still pop up on a roster at any point (some may already be on a roster that has yet to be submitted). These names are (but not limited to) Michael Redd, George Reese, Ken Johnson, Quentin Brooks, Velimir Radinovic, Brent Darby, Calvin Booth, and Esteban Weaver.

The lineup for Thursday’s opening evening is as follows:

6:30 PM Buckeye Corner vs. Prudential; City Wide vs. Mitchell McKinney; New Covenant vs. ODU
7:45 PM Cordray vs. Union Savings Bank; HER King vs. College Bound; Safe Auto vs. Col. Christian Cen
9:00 PM Precision vs. Chorpenning Good; Berwick vs. Donatos; Andrews Insurance vs. HER Hunt

Bucknuts will have reports and features throughout the season from the McDonald’s Summer League.

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Safe Auto (Andrew Lavender, NeShaun Coleman, Jermaine Tate, Troy Smith, Carmelo Anthony, Gary Trent)

Is there another Troy Smith?

[MililaniBuckeye]

Safe Auto (Andrew Lavender, NeShaun Coleman, Jermaine Tate, Troy Smith, Carmelo Anthony, Gary Trent)

That cant be the Carmelo Anthony...

[Savante]

It is THE Carmelo Anthony and THE Troy Smith, but both likely won't play. Smith was on a roster last year. A long time ago, when Jim Jackson was on the Mavs, Kidd and Mashburn were listed as being on his team but never were. I don't know why they do this but it's an accepted practice.

[scarletandgrey]

I think that BFS uhhhh..JWinslow will be attending this.

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6/16/05

Summer League will feature wide-open competition


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Ohio State University's J.J. Sullinger (0) looks to try and help Buckeye Corner repeat as McDonald's Summer League champions this year.

By NAT LATHY

After nearly a quarter of a century, it's time for another season.

The McDonald's Summer League is ready to start its 24th season of basketball Thursday. Games will be played at Thomas Worthington High School until July 5.

The venue then switches to Worthington Kilbourne July 7, where the league will wind up with its postseason tournament, starting July 14. The championship game is July 21.

Admission is free for all games.

"We're looking forward to another successful season," league director Alisha Colyer said. "It's an opportunity to see incoming freshmen at Ohio State, and also Ohio Dominican and Capital."

There are 18 teams in the league again this year, divided up evenly into two divisions -- the Wolves and Cardinal. The top eight teams in each division make the playoffs.

Ohio Dominican is one of four new teams, replacing the four who aren't in the league this year. The other three new squads are New Covenant Believers Church, Union Savings Bank and Prudential Residenz Realtors. Ohio Dominican doesn't have a sponsor. Gone from the league are DSW Shoe Warehouse, Mansfield Coalition, EA Sports and A&E Inc.

Back to defend its title is Buckeye Corner, which includes Ohio State University players in senior J.J. Sullinger and junior Ronald Lewis (a Brookhaven graduate and transfer from Bowling Green State University), along with former Buckeye Tony Stockman. OSU players are more spread out over the various rosters than they have been in the past.

Two long-time coaches in the league are back again -- George Howard leads Columbus Christian Center, and Eddie Guice skippers Andrew Insurance.

This is Howard's 17th season in the league, mostly as a head coach (he's been an assistant for a few seasons during the stretch). Howard, who will be an assistant for the Brookhaven girls team, is stepping down after this season. He plans to focus more on the Lady Thunder 13-and-under AAU program he's started up.

"This is going to be it," Howard said. "I'll miss it, but it's time to move on. I'm looking forward to competing."

Howard's roster includes players such as Ohio State junior Ivan Harris and sophomore Jamar Butler, along with former Buckeye Ken Johnson. There's also the addition of Chuck Warren, a Whitehall-Yearling graduate and University of Findlay standout who's played overseas.

"Adding Ken in the middle should help," Howard said. "We're going to be strong; we're going to be deep."

Howard sees his ballclub in the mix of contenders.

"There's Mitchell McKinney, Safe Auto, probably Buckeye Corner and Cordray (for Treasurer, a team also known in past seasons as Cordray Orthodontics)," the coach said.

Guice estimates this is his 14th year in the league, and his team includes a player he's quite familiar with -- his son Jermaine Guice, a Westerville South and Butler University graduate.

Jermaine Guice, 32, who won't be back from France in time for the start of play Thursday, can start playing for his father's team next week. Guice was Most Valuable Player of the French league this past season, and he just signed a two-year deal to play with the LeMans team, which had the best record in the regular season.

Eddie Guice expects a wide-open league.

"We're going to play good defense," the coach said. "On offense, we should be competitive with the talent we have."

Andrew Insurance will include Ohio State players senior Matt Sylvester, sophomore Matt Terwilliger and former Buckeye Brandon Fuss-Cheatham.

Upcoming games at Thomas Worthington

Thursday

6:30 p.m.

• Ct. 1 Buckeye vs. Prudential
• Ct. 2 City Wide vs. Mitchell
• Ct. 3 New Cov. vs. ODU

7:45 p.m.

• Ct. 1 Cordray vs. Union
• Ct. 2 HER vs. College Bound
• Ct. 3 SAFE vs. Col. Christ.

9 p.m.

• Ct. 1 Precision vs. Chorpenn
• Ct. 2 Berwick vs. Donatos
• Ct. 3 Andrew vs. HER-Hunt

Tuesday

6:30 p.m.

• Ct. 1 Col. Christ. vs. HER-King
• Ct. 2 Mitchell vs. Cordray
• Ct. 3 Precision vs. Safe

7:45 p.m.

• Ct. 1 Her vs. Berwick
• Ct. 2 Chorpenn vs. Andrew
• Ct. 3 Union vs. ODU

9 p.m.

• Ct. 1 College vs. City
• Ct. 2 Prudential vs. New Cov.
• Ct. 3 Donatos vs. Buckeye