Wisconsin High School Basketball News

About a year ago, Taylor Wurtz's doctors informed her that she had suffered a stress fracture and had three herniated disks in her back.

The careers of Brady Ellingson and Riley LaChance will always be linked, remembered as friendly rivals who each brought game-changing ability to the table during their four-year careers with Greater Metro Conference heavyweights.

First, a brief note: A few readers have asked about the status of Badger Bits, which have largely fallen by the wayside.

A scoring outburst in the fourth quarter propelled the Two Rivers boys basketball team to a 65-58 win over visiting Manitowoc Lutheran in a non-conference tilt Monday night.

To continue our proud history and tradition, Gov. Scott Walker must veto the race-based mascot bill, Assembly Bill 297, which would make eliminating stereotypes in the last 33 state school districts much more difficult.

The Antigo Varsity boys basketball team started its Great Northern Conference season Friday with a hard fought battle against Tomahawk.

A productive off-season is giving West Allis Hale girls basketball head coach George Sotiros plenty of hope for 2013-14.

And that's what the Brown Deer boys used to great advantage Tuesday night against Woodland rival Shorewood, as despite first half foul trouble for both, the inside pair of 6-6 Jerry Luckett and 6-9 Devante Jackson combined for 36 points and generally made life miserable for their much shorter hosts in a 66-50 decision.

In its first home series of Big Ten hockey, the Wisconsin men's hockey team stormed past Penn State, sweeping the Nittany Lions with 7-1 and 4-3 victories to earn University of Wisconsin its first set of wins in the new conference.

As he was leaving the Menomonee Falls gym following his team's occasionally impressive, occasionally messy 83-47 rout of the host Indians on Saturday night, Germantown boys basketball coach Steve Showalter called out to someone across the floor and said: "That coach for them , he's doing all right.

The Roncalli boys basketball came up on the short end of a 52-39 game against Milwaukee Vincent at the Terry Porter Classic in Milwaukee on Saturday afternoon.

The Brookfield Central girls basketball team crushed Racine Park, 76-29, in a nonconference game on Saturday to win their third straight game for the first time ever under coach Dan Wandrey.

It took little more than two seasons for Blockton, a junior basketball player, to score her 1,000th point.

The talent of the Nicolet girls basketball team is obvious - the precision, the speed and intensity when the press is working and everyone is out running ahead looking for that pass they know is coming.

For those who shop till they drop, the retail areas centered on Blue Mound and Mayfair roads in Milwaukee's western suburbs are shaping up as the promised land.

A strong defensive effort coupled with timely offensive output lifted visiting Reedsville over Hilbert 54-38 in an Olympian Conference contest Friday night.

Robert Phillips entered his sophomore year with the Oshkosh North football team a scraggly, undersized linebacker that opposing teams tried to exploit in their offensive game plans.

When it comes to quarterbacks in high school, the words "dual-threat" often coincide with a player that struggles to throw the football, and most often is simply a running back playing the quarterback position.

For those who shop till they drop, the retail areas centered on Blue Mound and Mayfair roads in Milwaukee's western suburbs are shaping up as the promised land.

In preperation for the better attended boys game that followed Saturday night, the crowd grew steadily for the Germantown at Menomonee Falls girls basketball game as the contest progressed.