Pleasant Valley all-state basketball player Halle Vice gave Marquette University a verbal commitment recently.
Rock Island's Amarion Nimmers will continue his basketball career at the University of Iowa. Read about his visit, why its a good fit, and what he wants to accomplish in Iowa City.Â
This week’s Illinois Pacesetter is the Class 2A defending state high jump champion who also played an instrumental role in Geneseo basketball’s 31-2 season, earning first team all-WB6 honors in the process.
Dave McLaughlin always has had a desire to be a varsity head basketball coach. He just didn’t expect the opportunity to pop up at North Scott High School with Shamus Budde’s extended run of success.
This past winter, Rockridge High School boys' basketball coach Andy Saey led his club to the peak all prep teams in Illinois aspire toward.
Here is a look at this year's Quad-Cities All-Metro boys basketball team, which is led by Central DeWitt senior Shawn Gilbert and Rock Island senior Amarion Nimmers.Â
After 32 years of teaching and 12 as the head coach of United Township's girls basketball program, Carie Walker is retiring. Read about what it meant for Walker to coach her alma mater.Â
Here is a look at this year's All-Eastern Iowa boys basketball team, which is led by Wilton junior Caden Kirkman.
Player of the year: Nate Henry, sr., RockridgeÂ
Alleman High School announced that Rick Thomas will be its 12th boys basketball coach in school history at a press conference Wednesday.Â
Here is a look at this year's Quad-Cities All-Metro girls basketball team, which is led by Pleasant Valley junior Halle Vice and Geneseo senior Kammie Ludwig.
Here is a look at this year's All-Western Illinois girls basketball team, which is captained by Annawan senior Cassidy Miller.
Here is a look at this year's All-Eastern Iowa girls basketball team, which is captained by Wilton senior Kelsey Drake.
United Township High School will have a new girls basketball and volleyball coach for the 2022-23 school year, the school announced Tuesday.
Dan Beck, who has led high school boys' basketball teams in Preston for the last 46 years, is leaving coaching to become a full-time athletic director across the river in the West Carroll District.
North Scott's Shamus Budde has resigned as the program's boys' basketball coach after 16 seasons.
The Iowa boys team defeated Illinois, 114-113, in the annual Senior All-Star game at Augustana College on Monday.
Iowa started slow, but by the end of the game it was Illinois that couldn’t quite catch up with the senior all-stars from across the river.
With a lingering groin injury, Amarion Nimmers nearly pulled out of the dunk contest.
The Illinois girls team defeated Iowa, 63-61, in the annual Senior All-Star game at Augustana College on Monday.
It was competitive, close, and entertaining.
The 21st edition of the event starts with the girls at 6 p.m. and the boys tip off at 7:30 p.m. The 3-point contest takes place at halftime of the girls game and the dunk contest takes place during the break of the boys game.
The Three Rivers Conference's West Division wound up with not one, but two holders of its boys' basketball crown in 2021-22.
Shawn Gilbert was a fine basketball player last season as a junior. He was Central DeWitt High School's top scorer, rebounder and shot nearly 60% from the field.
In this week's column, sports editor Matt Coss looks at a new era of high school basketball coming to Iowa, medical forfeits in college wrestling and how Iowa will be well-represented in March Madness.