High School Basketball News

“I don't know that people realize how hard this is to do”

G.J. Vilarino, right, and the McKinney basketball team enter the postseason after compiling the program's first perfect district season in recent memory. via Star Community Newspapers

A Pennsylvania high school basketball referee died of an apparent heart attack after calling an overtime playoff game. via The York Daily Record

Ask any coach in the Ohio Valley what their main focus is when playing against Weir and every one will tell you the same thing - contain Pete Brogdon. via Wheeling News

Bessemer Police confirm that missing Jess Lanier High School basketball coach Harvey Tharpe was found alive and unharmed this morning. via WIAT-TV Birmingham

“Parents, it is your job to protect your children, to teach them right from wrong, and stop them from doing things that hurt them.”

In honor and recognition of Black History Month Calvin Mackie was invited to come speak Wednesday night at Frisco High School. via Plano Star Courier

Today's winter storm has forced some area schools to close for the day, meaning some of tonight's high school basketball games have been postponed. via Green Bay Press-Gazette

D. Burgardt BroncoBlitz.com LaMarcus Lowe , a 6'10" center out of Flint Northwestern, has verbally committed to Western Michigan University. via Rivals.com

Lebanon County's high-school basketball teams will have to wait another day to compete in the District III playoffs. via The Lebanon Daily News

The Kansas State High School Activities Association is looking into an incident earlier this month when a woman referee was told she could not officiate a boys high school basketball game. via KAKE-TV Wichita

“My heart goes out to all of them”

Long before Saturday morning's shooting, Eric Domingo and Casey Curcie-Crummett became well-known figures in the South Shore sports community. via Tahoe Daily Tribune

“It was an accident from her rendition and evidence found at the scene”

A former New Albany High School basketball player was killed early Monday in what appears to be an accidental shooting, police said. via Tribune/Sunday Ledger Tribune

“That was a huge boost for our football program on a lot of different levels.”

The key? The high school players from in-state. Scout.com rated UW's class No. 14 in the nation and third inthe Pac-10. Twelve of the 26 players in the class were from the state, including seven of the top 10 ... via MaxPreps

“Then we go into the locker room and I talk to the team. This process usually only leaves the players around two minutes to warm-up and on some nights none at all ... 10 minutes is not enough.”

Halftime in high school basketball lasts only 10 minutes. That's about enough time to jog from the court to the locker room, check the scorebook for fouls, quickly confer with your assistants, speak to the ... via Journal-Register

“They are more athletic on the perimeter. You don't have to be old to be quick and rangy. They are very, very quick and rangy on the perimeter and that obviously caused our perimeter guys some problems”

First, there were the peculiar statistics like the University of Wisconsin men's basketball team's 19-4 edge in offensive rebounds and making 30-of-33 free throw attempts while losing 72-67 to Purdue Saturday ... via Madison.com

“The student came up and mentioned there was someone outside with a gun”

A 19-year-old man was shot outside of McNair High School in Dekalb County on Friday night, while a high school basketball game was going on inside. via WXIA-TV Atlanta

“When you teach any class, don't ever assume anything.”

Tom McKinney fell in love with Indiana high school basketball as a youngster growing up in Columbus , Ind. via MaxPreps

“You need him to get a stop, he gets a stop.”

His uniform is different, but Chretien Lukusa's role remains the same. Whether it was his high school basketball team at Eastern Commerce Collegiate in Toronto or with Binghamton University, he's the guy who ... via PressConnects.com

“If I come and I only want to watch 1A games, I'm going to have to do some driving”

This year's Wyoming State High School Basketball Championships will be organized a bit different this year. via Casper Star-Tribune

“During winter break, you get a couple of weeks where it's nothing but basketball.”

It's a fact of life in college basketball, as sure as 20-minute halves and face-painted crazies. via Courier News Online

“They haven't got the All-America (recruit) yet, but maybe now the All-America recruit will see Rutgers as a viable option because they're bringing in some surrounding talent.”

Dane Miller, one of top basketball recruits in the Northeast, has a message for his peers in the high school junior class: Why not come to Rutgers? 'Now that I committed, maybe more of the top kids will think ... via Courier News Online