Winless Watch (Boys): Warriors, Raiders win!

This week's Boys Winless Watch sees two teams bid a fond adieu to our list. As predicted here a few weeks ago, Woodlan's Warriors punched its ticket off the list by defeating fellow WW squad Southern Wells on 2/9, 60-43. Duly inspired by that defeat, the Raiders then went out the following weekend and won on the road at Blackford, 87-77. Congrats to both teams for their removal from WW!

We're down to six teams on the boys' version of Winless Watch, and that list will become at least one fewer later this week, as Cowan and Union (Modoc) meet for the right to get off this list. In order starting with worst average margin of defeat (as of games of 2/17):

1. Cannelton (-50.3)
2. Howe Military (-36.7)
3. Union (Modoc) (-30.7)
4. North White (-29.8)
5. Cowan (-18.3)
6. Kouts (-12.2)

When you combine the fact that Cannelton's Bulldogs are scoring on average 50 fewer points per game than its opponents, and its strength of schedule according to Sagarin is 376th out of the 393 IHSAA boys teams, it appears that the Perry County school will be a runaway choice for the WW Boys Team of the Year. But there's still one week left in the season, and Springs Valley, Restoration Christian and Whitesville (Ky.) Trinity still lurk. The Blackhawks and Lions probably aren't beatable (although Cannelton did give RC all it could handle in a 99-38 defeat about 3 weeks ago), but what of Whitesville Trinity? The Lexington Herald-Leader pegs the Whitesville Trinitarians (sorry, no nickname information available) at 15th out of the 16 teams in their region, so who knows?

Personally, I'd like to think that the level of competition in Indiana is such that the weakest school in Indiana can still beat the weakest team from Kentucky, so on February 21, when the two teams lace up, we will all be Bulldogs for one night.