A red-hot team with a dangerous inside-outside attack is not what you want to go up against when trying to rally from a slow start.

Geneva was able to hold off upset-minded Downers Grove South during the final game of Monday’s third annual MLK Day of Hoops, 53-51.

Willowbrook’s boys basketball team has found its game and extended its winning streak out to eight games after a narrow 73-69 victory over Libertyville in the championship game of the MLK Lake Zurich tournament on Monday.

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”.

A brief illness caused Willowbrook’s Terrell Walker to miss a recent practice.That meant Walker had to start Tuesday’s home game against Morton on the bench.The Mustangs wish he had stayed there.

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.

Stevenson’s boys basketball team needed a little bit a time to jump-start its game against Morton Wednesday morning. When the Patriots hit their stride there wasn’t too much the Mustangs could do to stop them. Stevenson used a strong second half to pull out a 70-46 win in the first round of the Hinsdale Central Holiday Classic.

Max Haack was practically born to be a Downers Grove North basketball player.All his life, he’s patiently waited until he was old enough to play against — and beat — Downers Grove South.Haack, who is the son of Downers North assistant coach Jim Haack, finally got his chance Saturday and the result was all he dreamed of and then some.

The assignment was no easy task, but Glenbard North senior Josh Applewhite was well-prepared and came through with a grade A performance.The Panthers defender was challenged by chasing and guarding Addison Trail’s Jacob Daniels all night long Monday, and was tasked with stopping the Blazer shooter in the waning seconds with his team ahead 57-55. Applewhite contested the shot perfectly, didn’t foul Daniels, and when the shot bounded off the rim his team left the floor with an impressive win over an Addison Trail team that had won five of its first six games.