Second-seeded St. Patrick overcame seventh-seeded Vernon Hills to earn a 54-47 victory in. Friday night’s Class 3A Vernon Hills boys basketball regional final.

Grayslake Central senior forward Brendan Whalen picked an ideal spot on the bench for a suitable place to frame the moment. After scoring 13 points and amassing 8 rebounds to lead sixth-seeded Grayslake Central to a thrilling 53-47 overtime win over Deerfield in the Class 3A Grayslake Central regional championship game on Friday, Whalen wanted a memorable picture.

Thanks to strong second half start, Vernon Hills Cougars will get a chance at a boys basketball regional title as it held off St. Viator 44-43 Wednesday night.

Vernon Hills held off Maine West 46-43 in double overtime in a boys basketball game on Friday night in Des Plaines.

Like father, like son. Tony Lavorato Jr., who is the head boys basketball coach at Maine South, joined his father, Tony Lavorato Sr. in the 400-win club on January 15 when the Hawks beat Perspectives from the Chicago Public League.

Who is on fire on the Lake County boys basketball scene, you ask? How about the Lakes Eagles, winners of six of their last eight games. Lakes is 6-2 in January and was 11-10 overall and a robust 7-1 in Northern Lake County Conference action as a result of its strong 2022 start.

Fremd’s boys basketball team received another shot in the arm from junior forward Ryan Sammons Saturday afternoon at the Lakes MLK tournament. Sammons hit for 6 3-pointers and scored 23 points in the Vikings’ 55-34 win over Highland Park in the semifinals.

When Mike Obsuszt became head basketball coach at Barrington in 1996, he wondered where all the school basketball records were. Obsuszt put thought to paper the past two years and produced a book that was recently released called “The Unofficial History of Barrington High School Boys’ Basketball”.

The Grant boys basketball team has been on a nice run of late, winners of three in a row and four of its last six. During that span, Grant downed North Chicago by 42 points (76-34), Round Lake by 30 (64-34) and beat Northern Lake County Conference leader Grayslake Central by 14 (56-42).

With neither team leading by more than four points until the final 11 seconds of the game, Monday night’s nonconference battle between host Buffalo Grove and Vernon Hills was a very close, back-and-forth basketball game the whole way.A rebound basket by Buffalo Grove’s Alex Beihoffer cut the Cougars’ lead to 62-60 with 25.2 seconds to play. But Vernon Hills hit 5-of-6 free throws in the final 22.4 seconds of the contest to pull away with a 67-60 victory.