Wisconsin High School Basketball News

The Rice Lake Warrior girls' basketball team poses with its Division 2 regional plaque after Saturday's 35-32 championship win over New Richmond.

The Crusaders, cheered on by hundreds of their loyal fans, tipped off the state tournament at the Kohl Center in Madison on Thursday afternoon, falling 77-63 to Division 5 foe Northeast Wisconsin Lutheran, from Green Bay.

For the past three seasons, the Whitefish Bay Dominican girls basketball team has improved, and junior standout Allazia Blockton believes there's no reason the Knights can't continue to blossom.

The Germantown boys basketball coach has built the Warhawks into a perennial state power that has three state titles, five state berths and a boys state-record 69-game winning streak.

If you like big-conference, big-school basketball, you'll like the Milwaukee Regional at the BMO Harris Bradley Center this week.

Germantown alumnus Len Anhold graduated in 1987, a year before his brother, Dan, led the Warhawks basketball team to one of the program's finest seasons.

His team started the season with high hopes but stumbled to a 2-2 start, with back-to-back losses to Madison Memorial and Middleton throwing dirt on their gleaming ideas of a great season.

He was clutching the trophy closely to his chest, this sharp-shooting two guard, this veteran of three WIAA state basketball championships.

Milwaukee Pius' girls basketball team has all of the aforementioned qualities. And even on nights like Saturday, when the Popes can't buy a basket, they have plenty of ways to beat you.

Back at the Kohl Center - the site of last year's state final loss to Pulaski - the Vikings dominated Rice Lake, 61-46, to capture the WIAA Division 2 boys basketball title Saturday night.

Hluchnik has been coaching the Knights girls basketball team for five seasons and he has reached the sectional finals three times.

Dominican's Diamond Stone fights for the ball against Blair Taylor's River Kirchner, left, and Brett Ladsten in the second period of the WIAA Division 4 championship at the Kohl Center.

For a half on Friday night, the Oak Creek boys basketball team won the battle of tempo with its host Franklin, working hard and earning a 21-20 lead.

Sturgeon Bay's Riley Cordier finished in the top 10 in scoring and rebounding in the Packerland Conference during the 2013-2014 high school boys basketball season.

For the five starting seniors on the Roncalli basketball team, the journey that just ended started a decade ago.

There wasn't much debate which moment drew the biggest roar during Roncalli's 48-45 loss to Brown Deer on Friday morning.

The road thus far for the Oostburg girls basketball team in the WIAA Division 3 State Basketball Tournament has been relatively easy.

Germantown coach Steve Showalter hestiated answering the question following his team's shockingly easy 77-60 state semifinal victory over Milwaukee King Friday night at the Kohl Center.

The judge overseeing a secret investigation quashed a subpoena against the Wisconsin Club for Growth in January, but later stayed an order that prosecutors return material they had already seized, according to a sealed document that accidentally become public this week.

After getting through arguably the toughest bracket in Division 2 to reach the state tournament West De Pere thought no matter what it ran into at the Kohl Center it would be prepared.