Mississippi High School Basketball News

Itawamba Community College head basketball coach Grant Pate announced the signing of Shannon High School standouts Lakee Westbrook and Lamarcus Doss on Tuesday.

Family and a genuine sales pitch from Kirk Academy incoming Headmaster Dr. Randy Poss were enough to lure former Copiah-Lincoln Community College Men's basketball coach out of retirement.

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Ripley High School standout Jayla Chills is joined by family and coaches as she signs her National Letter of Intent to play basketball at Itawamba Community College next season.

Bayou Academy will undergo major administrative changes for the 2013-2014 school year.

St. Martin basketball player Ed Simpson picked up his first Division I scholarship offer Wednesday from Boston University, Yellow Jackets coach Charlie Pavlus said.

Germantown made history over the weekend when the Mavericks defeated Northeast Jones on Saturday in the first round of the Class 4A baseball playoffs.

Baldwyn's Dee Gates and Tevin Lindsey are joined by their families and coaches as they sign to play basketball at Itawamba Community College.

ELLISVILLE Jones County Junior College will have a new women's basketball coach for the first time in 14 years.

Watts, a 1971 graduate of CA, replaces Reid McCay, who has served as boys and girls basketball coach since 2003.

"Life is a fleeting thing. ... I'd rather spend it coaching basketball and working with young people than I would practicing law." - Monty Noblitt Monty Noblitt's heart never left coaching, but it's taken a few trying years in his personal life to realize that's where his body should be as well.

Ron Norman, who spent the past six seasons at Wayne County, has been named new head boys basketball coach at Pascagoula.

Northeast Mississippi Community College women's basketball program opened up its 2013-14 signing class with a local product.

The Itawamba Community College women's basketball coach Nanci Gray announced the signing of Nikki McMillian and Anna Rosenbaum of Pontotoc High School on Wednesday.

In the quest for its first state basketball championship, Pascagoula has hired a coach that already has one on his resume.

A member of one of the Mississippi Coast's top high school basketball families is set to be the next coach at Ocean Springs.