Wisconsin High School Basketball News

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.

I played high school basketball, so the term March Madness holds a special place in my heart.

<![CDATA[Gannett Wisconsin Media reporters Wes Hodkiewicz, Adam Thompson and Ricardo Arguello preview Day 2 of the WIAA boys basketball state tournament, featuring Manitowoc Roncalli in Division 3, West De Pere in Division 2 and Neenah in Division 1.

The Algoma girls basketball team launched their quest for a second straight Division 4 state championship last week, posting convincing victories over Manitowoc Lutheran and Brillion to clinch a regional title and power on to sectionals.

The drama that attended last year's wild rally by Franklin and upset over Oak Creek in a WIAA Division 1 girls sectional semifinal was not dwelled upon by the Knights in practice this week as the two teams prepared for a rematch on the same playoff level tonight in Racine Case.

Divine Savior Holy Angels junior Arike Ogunbowale has been recognized as the state's top girls basketball player for the second straight year.