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February 1, 2012

Rick Teverbaugh: Basketball, swimming and wrestling seasons rolling along

With basketball still the king in this state, it is hard sometimes for the other sports to get traction.

Even in a week like this with the Super Bowl just down the road, basketball is never far from the heart of the water cooler discussions.

The Indiana Pacers are playing really well. Indiana and Purdue are heading for a men’s basketball showdown in West Lafayette on Saturday evening. The Notre Dame women’s team is one of the best in the country.

At the high school level, the girls state basketball tournament starts on Tuesday of next week. The boys tournament will follow three weeks later. The NCAA men’s and women’s tournaments are already starting to take shape, at least in the minds of fans.

But the rest of the sports world rolls on and locally we are trying to keep up.

Last weekend we provided coverage of the local bowling teams and individuals as they opened sectional play. They will compete on Saturday in Muncie at the regional level.

Tonight competition in the girls state swim tournament commences. Most of our area swimmers will be in the Fishers Sectional, which is probably one of the toughest in the state. Look for a preview in today’s sports section and coverage in Friday’s and Sunday’s editions.

Just two weeks down the road the boys swimmers will take over the spotlight. Anderson High School’s team has put together an unbeaten regular season that included a second straight North Central Conference championship. The Indians will venture to the Hamilton Southeastern Sectional. We are planning a feature story on their season and a look ahead next week.

Then there are the wrestlers — a bunch of wrestlers.

Last Saturday’s sectional competition produced huge numbers of regional qualifiers. A large portion of those will be at Pendleton Heights this Saturday for the regional.

Look for a similarly large contingent to advance to the follow weekend’s New Castle Semistate.

If this sounds like a ton to keep straight and to get covered, you’d be right on target about that. With a finite amount of space and an even more limited number of writers, getting actual reports of everything is a challenge.

We promise we’ll do our best. We wish good fortune for all of our local athletes and teams and hope we get to report good news.

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Since I will be covering a girls basketball game tonight and will miss the Super Bowl edition of Not For Print on WHBU radio at 7 p.m., I will reveal here what I would have said on that program about Sunday’s Super Bowl.

The New York Giants will win it — but not without a struggle.

I don’t trust the New England pass defense to be able to control the Giants’ hot quarterback, Eli Manning. If the Giants front four can make Patriots QB Tom Brady uncomfortable, it could make the point spread a little larger.

My final score: New York 27, New England 20.



Contact sports editor Rick Teverbaugh: 640-4886, rick.teverbaugh@

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