Foster Ogbonna, Tsvet Sotirov, and Ian Miletic are not everyday names on the tip of Rolling Meadows’ fans tongues. But the three underclassmen all played key roles in the Mustangs’ 59-56 win at Hoffman Estates Friday night the Class 4A boys basketball regional final.

The tale of Wednesday’s Hoffman Estates-Niles West Class 4A boys basketball regional semifinal was told from the 3-point line.Especially in the first quarter. The Hawks connected on 5-of-6 3s in the opening period, while the Wolves were 0-for-7. That led Hoffman to a 21-8 lead after 8 minutes, and Niles West couldn’t catch up as the Hawks won 55-37 on their home court.

Nick Vuckovic banged down a pair of free throws and Palatine missed a trio of 3-pointers as the Hawks held off the Pirates 48-45 Friday in a Mid-Suburban West boys basketball game in Hoffman Estates.

Barrington fired up and over Hoffman Estates’ zone defense and then played solid defense of its own for a 57-31 boys basketball win Tuesday in Barrington.

Hoffman Estates upended Fremd 46-37 Thursday night in Palatine in a Mid-Suburban West boys basketball game.

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.

Hoffman Estates continues to flash a ‘V’. The Hawks, led by twins Mike and Nick Vukovic, rallied from 5 points down at halftime to upend Addison Trail 65-54 Tuesday in a nonconference boys basketball game in Hoffman Estates.

Hoffman Estates’ boys basketball team started its game with visiting Conant with a strong start and finished even stronger. The Hawks, after trailing 48-45 with 4:28 left in the game, went on a 17-3 run to finish off the Cougars 62-51 in the Mid-Suburban West Thursday night.

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”.

Nick and Mike Vuckovic combined for 35 points in Hoffman Estates’ home victory, a 52-45 decision over Barrington Tuesday night.

After getting past Elk Grove in a Mid-Suburban League crossover on Tuesday night, Schaumburg boys basketball coach Wade Heisler began to turn his attention towards a return to West division play with a home date Friday against Hoffman Estates. This time for Heisler, though, it would be a contest that had a different meaning. He would do battle against a Hoffman squad that had a new head coach in Peter McBride, who previously assisted the Saxons’ program the past three seasons. And it would be McBride’s Hawks who would prevail on this night, 58-45.

After a 2020 Christmas basketball season where teams were all given coal in their stockings, the presents were back in 2021 thanks to the return of holiday basketball tournaments.

There will be an extra gift under boys high school basketball fans trees this Christmas. After holiday tournaments were cancelled in 2020 due to COVID-19, they return this season, so there will be plenty of bouncing basketballs all over the state.

It was rookie night in Hoffman Estates Tuesday. First-year head coach Brad Rathe’s Prospect Knights edged first-year head coach Peter McBride’s Hoffman Hawks 40-36 in a Mid-Suburban League boys basketball crossover battle. Prospect’s Owen Schneider hit a pair of free throws with 2.7 seconds left to clinch the victory.

Host Conant emerged victorious 40-36 on opening night of Mid-Suburban West boys basketball action Friday over previously undefeated Hoffman Estates by establishing tempo control of the game and slowing down a Hoffman squad that entered the contest averaging 63 points a game in buliding a 4-0 start to its young season.

Thanksgiving is just over a week ago. But there are still some delicious leftovers from the boys basketball holiday tournaments.

Here’s a look at the boys basketball season in the Mid-Suburban West

Peter McBride has been named head boys basketball coach at Hoffman Estates High School. McBride, who has been the school’s head sophomore boys basketball coach, takes over the program from Luke Yanule, who is stepping down after 10 years as the Hawks’ head coach.