2010 City-Suburban Showdown
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Baby it's cold outside but HOT in gyms! 120610 thru 121210 As the temperature drops outside, gymnasiums round the Chicagoland area are heating up with fantastic ball play. Click here to read more... |
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Proviso West
Holiday Tournament The Pairings have now been announced for the Proviso West Holiday Basketball Tournament which once again features a loaded field. Benet Academy, Chicago Morgan Park and Hillcrest headline the field of 16 competing teams.......... click here for details |
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As the season
ticks... Illinois As we close out of November and Football, we all file into various gymnasiums around the Chicagoland area for some B-Ball,. Many teams are making their marks and boxing out their competitors... while others are filling their way and building chemistry. Nonetheless, it is STRAIGHT-UP basketball time. Click here for more... |
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We have moved into
the BIG gym What a fantastic kick-off week of girls basketball... and now the boys are going full court press too.... For more on all of the high school sports November 22 - 28 click here. |
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Girls Basketball
Tips off The bouncing ball can be heard again in high schools gymnasiums throughout the area with hopes of going downstate. For some, the season got off to a quick start... for others, first game jitters prevailed... For more from Week 1 of Girls basketball, click here. |
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Morgan Tuck committs.... Bolingbrook's 6-foot-2 junior made an oral commitment to a national powerhouse... Tuck is currently ranked number 12 in the 2012 class by ESPN HoopGurlz. To find out where she's going, click here. |
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2010 Basketball Signees It's that time of the year - National Basketball Signing day... Surprisingly enough, many players elected to stay close to the Chicagoland area. To read who went where, click here. |
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McDonald's game
heading to United Center The annual basketball games are returning back to Chicago to showcase the best of the best. For more information, click here. |
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CONGRATULATIONS MARIAH SMITH Smith, a 6-foot guard/forward made her selection on her second official visit, and her selection was Princeton! Smith averaged 16 points and 6.3 rebounds per game last season for the Knights, who reached the Class 3A supersectionals. She’s a three-year varsity starter who also played on Richwoods’ Class 3A state championship team in 2009. Smith is also listed as 57th in her recruiting class and ninth at her position by ESPN.com. CONGRATULATIONS and best of EVERYTHING! |
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BIG Dipper expands... Rich South high schools' annual basketball event has agreed with local corporate powerhouse, McDonald's, for sponsorship. For more about this story, click here. NOTE: Story provided by SouthtownStar. |
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2010-11
NBA TV Schedule The 2010-11 NBA TV schedule is here. The national television networks that show NBA games are TNT and ESPN/ABC. The bulk of games are on TNT or ESPN, with select few regular season games appearing on ABC. However, the NBA Finals are shown on ABC. |
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CONGRATULATIONS MACARI BROOKS Brooks, a 6-3 guard, has given a verbal commitment to DePaul. |
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CONGRATULATIONS Ms. Massengale!Local All-American 5'6" point guard, Ariel Massengale, has made it official and submitted a verbal commitment to Tennessee. She is recognized as a top point guard prospect in the 2011 class who is rated the No. 6 overall in the ESPN HoopGurlz Hot 100. Click here for more. |
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2010 NBA Mock Draft Here is our annual NBA Mock Draft... who'll go first? What will your favorite team do? Click here |
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Jasmine Matthews decides... 5'10 guard from Marian Catholic, Jasmine Matthews, made an oral commitment to..... click here to read about her selection... |
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Rich South
parts ways with Brooks Macari Brooks, one of the state's top basketball players in the Class of 2011, will not be playing for Rich South next season. For more click here. NOTE: Story provided by Chicago Sun-Times |
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James Crockett commits... 6'3", junior forward from Crete-Monee high school makes a decision on playing at the next level... click here to find out where! |
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Fabyon Harris commits... Hyde Park guard made his selection Friday night at the school. He made his choice among a number of schools, most notable included Houston, DePaul, and Cincinnati. To read his selection click here. |
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2010
State Finals have been decided... |
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With a dominate presence of Chicago area teams downstate, (Simeon, Young, Marshall and Hillcrest), who will come back with their classes' State title? Click here for Friday's recap. |
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3A/4A
Clinch time... Who's going downstate? Is it |
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Hales
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Boys'
Playoff Week What an exciting week of boys basketball. . . This week the Class 1A / 2A punch their tickets for Peoria, and Class 3A / 4A continue to battle in order to get their tickets punched... Click here to review the week that was... |
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2010 State Final exams put the best of the best in the Class 3A and 4A on the prestigious stage - Redbird Arena! In the Class 3A final, Montini and Hillcrest battled back-and-forth, but no one was prepared for what would happen in the third quarter. Click here to read our coverage. |
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Third time is the charm! The table is all set and ready for its guest... Young vs. Bolingbrook! This is their |
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At the start of every season, all teams have one common goal to not only win their respective conferences but to go downstate. But once you are there, you want it all and for Hillcrest and Montini, both teams demonstrated on day one that they belong... Read how they won their semi-final games by clicking here. |
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Crete and Brooks handle their business and advance to the Illiana regional finals Friday night. Both teams came out and made a B-I-G statement in their victories. For more click here. |
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As the girls tickets are being punched for the State finals, the boys are starting their quest for State... Who'll be on top? CLASS 3A: Hillcrest? Oswego? Springfield? Montini? CLASS 4A: Bolingbrook? Hersey? Fenwick? Young? All of these teams will battle this weekend at Redbird Arena (Normal, IL). Click here for more. |
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As the playoffs move to sectionals (girls) and the 1A/2A boys tip-off, every team has high hopes of going downstate. The dreams truly come full circle this week for many, and turns to nightmares for others. BIG sectional re-match gets things going Tuesday night over @ the Hillcrest sectional (Hillcrest vs Rich Central)... Whew!!!! We are locked and ready to go with our full coverage during these runs... For details on games we covered this week, click here. |
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2010 Illinois lone roster spot belong to senior, Illinois recruit, Jereme Richmond was one of 24 boys basketball players named to the 2010 McDonald's All American team today. At the time of this writing, Richmond is averaging 21 points and 12 boards per game. The McDonald's game will be played March 31 in Columbus, Ohio. To review rosters' click here. |
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DePaul's young recruit For more, click here. |
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2010 City-Suburban Showdown
What a wonderful weekend of sports... if Friday nights'
public league championship game between
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Lady Hawks continue on...
... to the sectional to face Rich Central. But first they
had to play Oak Forest and what an offensive explosion this was...
Kristyne Marshall
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Over the season, Hillcrest has been up and down in the opening quarter of games but not Wednesday night (2/17/10). The Lady Hawks put together a fast-paced, aggressive attack on Bremen which stifle their offensive abilities. For more click here. |
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Stars were aligned...
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5'10" junior guard Jailyn Norris |
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The 5'11" junior point guard at Gwendolyn Brooks gave a verbal commitment recently. To read more about his commitment, click here. |
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It's conference play time... time for teams to make a statement... time for teams to make their move... and when this is occurring, we'll be right at the baseline.... |
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AmateurSports365.com - It's championship day... time to crown someone! In the consolidation games put Bloom against Rich Central; and Crete-Monee up against Hales; plus other statement games... |
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AmateurSports365.com - As Day 3 featured a hot and spicy final four like no other... Hales vs Thornton, and a rematch of Crete-Monee vs. Rich South.... |
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AmateurSports365.com - With a day off, the BIG Dipper tipped off on Monday right where they left off with some wonderful match-ups including Bolingbrook taking on Hales; Thornton-Seton; and Crete-Leo, to name a few. So again, we must ask, how do you begin to summarize the Dipper? I highly suggest you come on out to Rich South high School and see for yourself. In the meantime, click here to read about Day 2. |
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AmateurSports365.com - What an exciting week of hoops going into the traditional holiday tournaments... PRE-TOURNAMENT SHOWDOWNS!!! Click here for more... |
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Big Dipper XXXVI figures to offer fans some outstanding matchups right from the opening round this year. This is one of the deepest fields ever for boys basketball in the Chicagoland area. For more on the Big Dipper, click here. |
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Weekend Round up - December 11-12, 2009 The Stars were aligned this weekend, not only for Rich South but also for Bloom Township and Whitney Young Lady Dolphins. For more, click here. |
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This basketball showcase was played over two days over at Chicago State University in the Jones Convocation Center and featuring some of the best teams in the area, including the 2009 Class 4A champs, Whitney Young Dolphins, as well as their runner up counterparts, Thornton and North Lawndale. It also showcased the Class 2A champs Seton Academy. For more, click here... |
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The Galaxy Girls Basketball Tournament tipped off last week and brought out some of the best talent in girls basketball including Harlan, Bloom Township, Bishop McNamara, Lincoln-Way North, Rich South, Shepard, Thornwood, and returning champion, Hillcrest Hawks. To read more, click here! |
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Basketball is back! Need I repeat myself? Basketball is back! As I woke up a couple of weeks ago to my delight the four-letter network, ESPN, had prepared a menu for me that was just plain ol' delicious - 24 hours of basketball!!! MMMM MMMM G-O-O-D!!! Click here for more... |
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League of "HER" own Video provided by ESPN
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Rich
South loses Head Rich South senior Crandall Head, a 6-4 guard who has committed to Illinois, will have surgery to repair a torn ACL in his right knee on Sept. 29, Stars coach Scot Ritter said. Head injured his knee at an AAU tournament at the end of July. He originally thought it was a strain and tried to rehab the knee. A reevaluation of the injury determined it was a torn ACL. For more, click here! |
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