Presenting the 2021-2022 Fox All-Area Girls Basketball Team

Relying on a fast start and displaying a balanced attack, South Elgin’s girls basketball team posted a 61-48 victory over Jacobs in the Larkin Class 4A regional championship Thursday night in Elgin.

While cliché in nature, the old “everybody is 0-0 at the start of the playoffs” is a truthful statement.A deeper meaning, as South Elgin girls basketball coach Dan Mandernack explained, is don’t overlook anybody or uniforms might be turned in the next day.

Who has the hottest of hot hands right now in the Fox Valley area?

Burlington Central girls basketball coach Collin Kalamatas has noticed another level of play from 6-foot-2 forward Taylor Charles in recent games.“She’s made some big-time steps in the last few weeks,” Kalamatas said. “She is just a special player. Her impact on the defensive end is one thing, but she’s starting to get things going offensively, too. When the ball is in her hands, she looks sure of herself and everyone feeds off that.”

Mike Miazga takes a look at some of the highlights for girls basketball teams over the Christmas break, including stops at Batavia, South Elgin and Huntley, among others.

Here’s a look at where Fox area schools are headed for girls basketball holiday tournaments, including St. Charles East, Huntley and Burlington Central playing at Montini, and Dundee-Crown hosting its annual Komaromy Classic.

Jacobs’ Ella Tamburrino made only one shot in Tuesday’s Fox Valley Conference game against McHenry. It was a big one.

Here’s a look at some of the highlights of the first few weeks of the girls basketball season in the Fox area, including a 6-0 start for South Elgin and updates at Geneva, Batavia, Huntley and more.

You don’t get assists on defense in basketball. But don’t tell that to Buffalo Grove girls basketball coach Martha Kelly. She practically wanted to invent a hoops statistic — let’s call it an ‘S.O.S’ number, for fun — after BG’s 43-31 nonconference defeat of visiting Jacobs on Wednesday night.

When defending the St. Viator girls basketball team in 2021-2022, you need to pick your poison. The Lions connected on 10-of-18 from 3-point range for 55% including 6-of-10 from beyond the arc in the first half. But the Lions proved they could pound the ball inside the paint connecting on 6-of-8 layups. The result was a 57-36 win over Jacobs Friday night in second round action of the Dundee-Crown girls basketball tournament.

Here’s a look at the girls basketball season in the Fox Valley