Scouting Fox Valley girls basketball postseason

Bartlett knocked off two-time defending Class 4A state champion 60-52 Monday night in the Class 4A Batavia sectional semifinals.

Geneva defeated Glenbard West on Thursday to win the Class 4A Geneva regional.

When your team has struggled lately from an offensive standpoint, you naturally work on correcting the issue.

Kate Palmer had perhaps the game of her life Wednesday night for the two-time defending Class 4A girls basketball state champions.

Sometimes it helps to have a long memory.

There’s only one week left in the regular season before the Class 4A and 3A postseason begins, but there’s plenty of drama still to play out in what have been tight Fox Valley, Upstate Eight and DuKane Conference races.

There wasn’t much doubt which end of the court made the difference in St. Charles North’s 42-31 win over DuKane Conference leader Geneva on a rare 4 p.m. Tuesday late afternoon game in St. Charles.

Perhaps nothing has changed the game of basketball in the past 30-plus years than the 3-point basket.

The third try proved to be the charm for Geneva and St. Charles North's girls basketball teams.

Conventional wisdom often suggests smaller downstate communities being at a major disadvantage against counterparts from Chicagoland.

It may only count for one win but it felt like a lot more than that for Wheaton Warrenville South’s girls basketball team Friday night.

Geneva defeated Glenbard West in a nonconference girls basketball game.

Geneva defeated Lake Park in a DuKane Conference girls basketball game in Roselle.

Geneva entered Friday night’s DuKane Conference battle for first place with Wheaton North on a rare 3-game losing streak.

Mother McAuley rode a strong first quarter, a relentless full-court pressure and solid guard play to a 48-44 win over the Vikings in the quarterfinals of the 10th Annual Montini Tournament.

Geneva defeated York in the opening girls basketball game of the Montini Christmas Tournament.

When you win the last two state championships on last-second shots, the bar is set pretty high for unforgettable finishes.

Geneva defeated Wheaton Warrenville South in a DuKane Conference girls basketball game.

Lindsay Blackmore of Geneva has been selected the Daily Herald girls basketball MVP for her performance last week at the Burlington Central Thanksgiving tournament.

Geneva could probably have overcome one Feuerbach Tuesday night in Sycamore. Two Feuerbachs, however, proved a little too much.

Shorthanded Burlington Central battled Geneva Tuesday night in the championship game of the Rockets’ Thanksgiving tournament but didn’t have the firepower to take down the two-time defending state champs.

Belvidere North outscored Geneva 13-8 in the fourth quarter on its way to a come-from-behind 56-53 victory Friday night at the Burlington Central Thanksgiving tournament, handing the two-time defending state champs their first loss.

Lindsay Blackmore had a career night in only her second game of the Geneva girls basketball season Tuesday evening at Burlington Central.

Two-time defending state champion Geneva opened its season by beating Woodstock Monday night at Burlington Central’s Thanksgiving tournament.