Wisconsin High School Basketball News

The Badgers are flying high and trying to match the program's best start in the modern era.

The Sheboygan South girls basketball team fell behind host Manitowoc Lincoln in the opening quarter and was never able to catch up in a 60-45 loss Tuesday night.

Often times, when a new coach steps into a program, it takes awhile for things to gel.

T.J. Schneider took the helm on Tuesday and nearly steered the Ships out of a steep deficit on the road.

Seven straight points by 6-foot-9 junior Henry Ellenson late in the first quarter ignited the slow-starting Rice Lake Warriors in Tuesday's season-opening win over New Richmond in boys' nonconference basketball.

The Bulldogs, the defending North Shore Conference champions, defeated Milwaukee Riverside , the reigning City and Division 1 state champion, 63-55, at home Tuesday night.

Chuckling as he said it, Homestead boys basketball coach Kevin McKenna gave a friendly shout to Whitefish Bay coach Kevin Lazovik during a time-out at the 4:06 mark of the first quarter of the game at Bay Tuesday night.

Brookfield East's boys basketball team improved to 2-1 with a 2-0 week, defeating Badger on Dec. 3 and Green Bay East on Friday, both at home, as Jimmy Engelhart scored 36 points and Christian Simon scored 29 to lead the offense.

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.