Nebraska High School Basketball News

"We maybe weren't the odds-on favorite," Thunderbird coach Doug Woodard said after Saturday's 56-50 overtime win against Omaha Westside.

The Cardinals held Overton to two second-half field goals and pulled away for a 54-42 win in the Class D-1 final at Pinnacle Bank Arena.

GAME IS TIED UNDER 10 SECONDS LEFT WHEN KHRYI THOMAS - STOPS AND POPS - THE BIG BUCKET - GIVES THE BUNNIES THE LEAD 2 SECONDS LEFT-- WESTSIDE WITH ONE LAST CHANCE - THE LONG PASS-- TIPPED TO SAM WILKINSON WHO GETS FOULED AT THE BUZZER--- -WOW SO DOWN 2 - HE HITS THE FIRST FREE THROW - THIS TO SEND IT TO OVERTIME AND WILKINSON - CALM COOL - OVERTIME ... (more)

When the game finally came to an end, ninth-ranked Norfolk had defeated top-ranked Omaha South 70-66 in the longest game at the boys state basketball tournament since 1924.

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Laura Bernero/Tribune Deb Hartman, fifth grade teacher and wife of Doniphan-Trumbull head coach Steve Hartman, enjoys the Cardinal boys basketball team's first-round game against Sutton at the Class C-2 state basketball tournament Thursday in Lincoln.

The No. 2-seeded Blue Devils used a 10-0 to open the second quarter of a Class C-1 quarterfinal against No.

Wahoo Neumann raced to a 23-14 first-quarter lead Thursday and wasn't threatened again until late in the fourth quarter as the Cavaliers routed Boone Central/Newman Grove 90-72 in the Class C-1 quarterfinals.

Gretna's Maren Soupir looks to turn the corner past Emma Areman of Norris in the fourth quarter of the match-up between the EMC foes.

Omaha Westside rode Michael Herrmann's double-double of 24 points and 10 rebounds to a spot in the Class A boys basketball semifinals.

Kulm scored a Class C-1 State Tournament record 40 points as the Trojans outlasted Fairbury 77-66 at the Devaney Center.

The top-ranked and unbeaten Whippets were as good as advertised, using a relentless attack to run past the Trojans 79-49 in Friday's Class C-1 State Tournament semifinal at Pinnacle Bank Arena.

It wasn't vintage Ty Danielson, but the senior guard did enough Thursday to help York pass its first-round test at the Class B boys state basketball tournament.

After winning the Class D-1 football state championship, Exeter-Milligan is anxious to make another run at a title.

Bancroft-Rosalie scored the first five points of the game and never trailed on its way to a 64-29 win over Hitchcock County Thursday in the first round of the Class D-2 state tournament at Lincoln Southeast High School.

John Gaughan grew up in Omaha and moved to Las Vegas in 1951 made a name for himself - the "king of slots" - in the gambling industry.

Doniphan-Trumbul's Riley Wiltfong puts up a shot against the defense of Sutton's Nicholas Hohensee in the Class C-2 district final March 3 in Hastings.

Bellevue West ran out to a 16-point lead before Millard West even made its first bucket Friday in the semifinals of the Class A State Tournament.

With a seven-point lead early in the fourth quarter, the Bellevue West girls basketball team was in great shape to win the state title.

No one can be sure which way the ball will bounce when the No. 1 team in Class D-2, the Exeter-Milligan Timberwolves, and the No.