Presenting the 2021 Daily Herald Northwest Suburbs All-Area Girls Basketball Team

Maine West has named Deanna Kuzmanic as its new head girls basketball coach.

Maine West graduate Angela Dugalic is heading west — again. After playing her freshman basketball season at Oregon, Dugalic announced Wednesday her plans to transfer to UCLA.

Due to family health issues, Maine West girls basketball coach and math teacher Kim deMarigny has resigned her posts to help with out-of-state care for her father and mother-in-law in Tennessee and Kentucky, respectively.

Maine West defeated Deerfield in a girls basketball game Friday night.

The marquee girls basketball matchup to end the season sees Class 4A No. 1 and Mid-Suburban East champion Hersey (15-0, 10-0) and 4A No. 3 and Mid-Suburban West co-champ Fremd (10-2, 9-1) squaring off in Arlington Heights Saturday at 2 p.m. for the overall MSL title.

Several girls basketball players have had the hot hand for their teams over the last few weeks, including a dual threat at Saint Viator.

With a large senior exodus from a year ago, the Fremd girls basketball team was bound to encounter highs and lows this season. But the Vikings, with a much smaller senior contingent than last year, are doing just fine sporting a 7-0 mark through midweek.

Maine West defeated Vernon Hills in a girls basketball game on Saturday.

Scouting girls basketball for the 2021 season in the Northwest suburbs

The Maine West girls basketball legacy continues as three players, including star guard Moira Kennelly Pietrowski, who hit the shot that propelled the Warriors to the 1988 Class AA state championship, and a longtime coach in the program, Jerry Stonequist, earn places in the Illinois Basketball Coaches Associatoon’s Hall of Fame with the Class of 2021.