Columbus Grove senior post player Luke Kohls was a unanimous choice as the 2010-11 NWC Player of The Year in voting by Northwest Conference boys basketball coaches at the annual selection meeting Monday evening at Delphos Jefferson High School. This marked Kohl’s second straight POY award and first team all-conference selection.

Kohls averaged 17.2 points and 7.8 rebounds per game for the Bulldogs and led his team
to both the Northwest Conference and Putnam County League championships.

He was joined on the NWC first team by Bluffton’s Levi Gleason, LCC’s Tyler O’Connor, Ada’s Konnor Baker, and Delphos Jefferson’s Ryan Ebbeskotte.

The voting procedure called for each coach to vote for the top 15 players on a 15-14-13, etc. point descending scale. No coach could vote for his own players.

Todd Turnwald, who led Columbus Grove to an 8-1 conference record and outright Northwest Conference championship was voted by his peers as NWC Coach of The Year.

1st Team
Luke Kohls, Columbus Grove, Junior
Levi Gleason, Bluffton, Senior
Tyler O’Connor, Lima Central Catholic, Junior
Konnor Baker, Ada, Junior
Ryan Ebbeskotte, Delphos Jefferson, Senior

2nd Team
Dan Binkley, Spencerville, Junior
Steven Rickard, Crestview, Senior
Sloan Whitaker, Lincolnview, Junior
Austin Stolly, Lima Central Catholic, Senior
Adam Bair, Columbus Grove, Senior
Devan Bermejo, Paulding, Senior

Honorable Mention
Bubba Krieg, Lima Central Catholic, Senior
Colby Mueleman, Columbus Grove, Senior
Eli Bowers, Spencerville, Junior
Casey Rex, Allen East, Senior
Kyle Siefker, Bluffton, Senior
Brad Miller, Crestview, Senior
Jordan Travis, Columbus Grove, Junior
Nick Adam, Crestview, Junior
Logan Bonifas, Delphos Jefferson, Senior
Grant Harder, Paulding, Senior

2025-26 NWC Boys Basketball Standings

2 NWC schools are represented in the final AP Boys Basketball State Poll. Lima Central Catholic was ranked 3rd in Division III and Columbus Grove was ranked 4th in Division IV.

Ohio AP Boys Basketball State Poll
How a state panel of sports writers and broadcasters rates Ohio high school boys basketball teams in the final weekly Associated Press polls, by OHSAA divisions, with won-lost record and total points (first-place votes in parentheses):
Division I
1. Garfield Hts. (6) 19-0 186
2. Cols. Northland (9) 19-1 181
3. Cin. La Salle (3) 20-2 160
4. Tol. St. John’s (3) 17-1 150
5. Westerville S. 19-1 117
6. Liberty Twp. Lakota E. 19-1 96
7. Cin. Moeller (1) 18-2 92
8. Gahanna Lincoln 19-1 83
9. Huber Hts. Wayne 18-1 68
10. Tol. Whitmer 17-1 44
OTHERS RECEIVING 12 OR MORE POINTS: 11, Middletown (1) 22. 12, Lakewood St. Edward 20. 13, Pickerington N. 17.

Division II
1. Day. Dunbar (14) 18-2 213
2. Carrollton (5) 20-0 187
3. Zanesville (4) 18-2 168
4. Akr. Buchtel 17-2 162
5. Cols. Hartley 18-1 109
6. Chillicothe 17-3 91
7. Cuyahoga Falls Walsh Jesuit 15-2 76
8. Shelby 16-2 55
9. Kettering Alter 15-5 37
10. Celina 16-3 26
OTHERS RECEIVING 12 OR MORE POINTS: 11, Akr. SVSM 22. 12, New Concord John Glenn 20. 13, Delaware Buckeye Valley 17. 14, Day. Thurgood Marshall 16. 15, Thornville Sheridan 15. 16, Defiance 12. 16, Struthers 12.

Division III
1. Cin. Taft (16) 17-1 218
2. Chesapeake (4) 19-1 200
3. Lima Cent. Cath. 17-2 147
4. Archbold (2) 18-1 145
5. Casstown Miami E. 19-1 120
6. Piketon 17-2 88
7. Akr. Manchester 18-2 75
8. Sugarcreek Garaway 15-2 68
9. Peebles (1) 19-1 57
10. Portsmouth 16-4 32
OTHERS RECEIVING 12 OR MORE POINTS: 11, Cin. Summit Country Day 23. 12, Jeromesville Hillsdale 21.

Division IV
1. Zanesville Rosecrans (19) 20-0 222
2. Berlin Hiland (2) 19-1 189
3. McComb (1) 18-0 176
4. Columbus Grove 18-1 147
5. Richmond Hts. 18-0 132
6. Day. Jefferson (1) 14-2 120
7. Bedford Chanel 15-3 90
8. Reedsville Eastern 17-2 72
9. Continental 15-3 34
10. McDonald 18-0 20
OTHERS RECEIVING 12 OR MORE POINTS: None.