Wisconsin High School Basketball News

The Generals overcame a dismal first quarter and rallied for a 77-74 overtime victory over top-ranked and previously unbeaten Brookfield Central on Thursday night in a WIAA Division 1 sectional semifinal before a standing-room-only crowd.

A Cochrane-Fountain City Boys' basketball fan caught on video the exciting game-winning shot in overtime to send the pirates to the La Crosse sectional finals.

The chants have come for weeks now. And as hard as Lamonte Bearden has tried to ignore them, he's heard every one.

CHIPPEWA FALLS - Marshfield boys basketball coach Bill Zuiker just had one request from his team and that was to show intensity for 32 minutes.

Too many turnovers, shots not falling, opponent offensive rebounds and put-backs: all in all, not a great first half for Sheboygan Lutheran in Thursday's WIAA Division 5 sectional semifinal against Milwaukee Academy of Science.

It was a Top 10 match-up in the Division 3 boys' basketball sectional semis with #10 Valders taking on #1 Roncalli.

With the weather we have been having, it is hard to tell. Some will say the cold weather would be like a lion; others will say this "balmy" weather we have had the last few days resembles a lamb.

Few high school athletes are fortunate enough to get recruited to play the sport they love at the collegiate level.

With his team down by one and potentially only 41.6 seconds left in his high school basketball career, Wausau Newman Catholic's Marcus Gabriel had only one thought in his mind as he stepped to the free-throw line.

The roller coaster ride unfortunately came to an end for the Oostburg boys' basketball team on Thursday night.

A Brown Deer boys basketball assistant coach first asked the question outside the Falcons' lockerroom at Waukesha West Thursday night and then it was echoed inside the lockers a moment later by a relieved head coach Kelly Appleby: It was a jubilant call as the Falcons had just put themselves a step away from the WIAA State Division 3 Tournament ... (more)

There is supposed to be no downside to winning. But no matter how great Seymour's victory over West De Pere in the season finale was, when the Thunder topped the Phantoms to win the Bay Conference despite losing its second-best player, Dakota Oskey, to a severe ankle injury, Seymour coach Jon Murphy knew trouble lurked.

Pacelli boys basketball coach Brad Rutta was hoping a track meet broke out during a WIAA Division 4 sectional semifinal Thursday night.

Third-ranked Neenah rallied from a 15-point halftime deficit to stun fifth-ranked Stevens Point 59-56 on Thursday in a WIAA Division 1 sectional semifinal at Menasha.

Becca Butkus battles with a pair of Medford players for a loose ball as Hannah Hallstrom and Clara Schroeder look on.

Venus is the first student in Northland's history to achieve 1,000 points. He is coached by Todd Dahlke.

Except for Brookfield Central , I had my five other boys basketball teams fail to make it past the weekend.

Worse than a blown call at the end of a close game, worse than a 95 percent foul shooter missing the front end of a bonus trying to salt away a victory.

"Telsch," "Annie" Football, basketball and track and field Telschow, one of the Flying Dutchmen's leading scorers this season, scored a team-high 17 points in a regional championship win last week against Campbellsport.

Then there were three. Plymouth, Oostburg and Sheboygan Lutheran rattled and rolled -- and sometimes held on by the seat of their pants -- to regional championships last week.