New Trier’s Noah Shannon rained on Rolling Meadows’ parade Wednesday at the Class 4A sectional semifinal at the Titan Dome at Glenbrook South in Glenview. Shannon knocked down all 10 of his field goal attempts, including four from outside the arc. He finished with 26 points as the Trevians flooded Rolling Meadows 72-40.

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.

Barrington rallied to beat Rolling Meadows 57-49 Wednesday in the 2022 MSL title game in Barrington.

The Mid-Suburban League boys basketball championship will be set to repeat. Rolling Meadows and Barrington, who played in last spring's championship game, have earned their ticket to next Wednesday's title game at Barrington.

It has been a while since a high school basketball game has been as entertaining on Tuesday night as the one between Glenbrook South and Rolling Meadows. With a large crowd on hand, buoyed by a huge Rolling Meadows student section, Glenbrook South pulled away in the send half to beat the host Mustangs 89-82 in a nonconference boys game.

Rolling Meadows’ boys basketball team clinched the Mid-Suburban East championship Friday night with a 55-49 win over Prospect.

Rolling Meadows just missed on a golden opportunity Saturday. Playing New Trier in the 12th annual “War on the Shore” at Loyola Academy, Meadows could have vaulted to the top of the upcoming Class 4A Glenbrook South sectional seeding with a win over the Trevians. Things looked great for the Mustangs until midway through the third quarter. But that’s when New Trier exploded and the Trevians were able to secure a 60-56 win.

Rolling Meadows took a 17-point lead in the first quarter Thursday night at Buffalo Grove, and wound up earning a 75-53 boys basketball victory on the Bison’s home court in Mid-Suburban East action.

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.

Rolling Meadows looks like a runaway locomotive. The Mustangs went into Jean Walker Field House at Prospect Friday night and breezed past the Knights 57-43 in a battle of boys basketball unbeatens in the Mid-Suburban East.

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”.

Rolling Meadows went to Beast Mode for a big 82-46 nonconference boys basketball victory Saturday at Deerfield.

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.

Rolling Meadows struggled out of the gate Tuesday as the Mustangs hosted Palatine in a midseason battle between Mid-Suburban League boys basketball division leaders. But when the dust settled, Rolling Meadows was in a full gallop and raced past the Pirates 71-47.

Rolling Meadows freshman Ian Miletic forgot his shoe by his team’s bench right after the Mustangs held off Bolingbrook 58-55 in the third-place game of the Jack Tosh Holiday Classic at York High School in Elmhurst Friday. The good news for Miletic was that he was able to find his shoe. The even better news for him and Meadows were the two free throws that he hit with five seconds left to help preserve the win.

Glenbard West held Rolling Meadows to 31% shooting, and Braden Huff scored 18 of his 25 points in the second half of the No. 1-ranked Hilltoppers’ 58-40 win in the semifinals of the Jack Tosh Holiday Classic.

Championship caliber basketball teams will hang their hat on defense. The Rolling Meadows boys basketball team gives up 44 points on defense on average. That convincing number was close to the mark Wednesday afternoon when Meadows dispatched highly regarded Lake Forest 54-49 in the quarterfinals of the Jack Tosh Holiday Classic at York High School.

Rolling Meadows threw a triple whammy at Lemont Tuesday afternoon at the Jack Tosh Holiday Classic boys basketball tournament at York High School in Elmhurst. The scoring of Cameron Christie and Orlando Thomas, and the inside scoring and the board play by Mark Nikolich-Wlson lifted the Mustangs to a 67-59 win over Lemont.

Rolling Meadows is looking for a missing piece. The Mustangs took a first step into finding it Monday when they easily handled St. Laurence 68-54 in the opening round of the Jack Tosh Holiday Classic at York in Elmhurst Monday,

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.

Rolling Meadows senior guard Orlando Thomas likes to sum up his game with two clips as his lone pinned tweet on his Twitter site. Thomas might want to add a few more highlights to his Twitter site, as he showed a diverse and athletic game, scoring 10 points and dishing out 6 assists in a 59-45 victory over host Libertyville Saturday in a nonconference boys basketball game.

Reigning Mid-Suburban League boys basketball champion Rolling Meadows trotted its way into Elk Grove Friday evening seeking a 3-0 divisional mark to take into the holiday break. Once the opening tip took place, that trot turned into a speedy gallop, which allowed it to bolt past the host Grenadiers 86-46 in an MSL East game at Charles Aldrich Gymnasium.

Despite going unbeaten during the COVID-shortened spring season, Rolling Meadows’ boys basketball team is looking to build its resume. The Mustangs made a a significant addition to their work history Saturday with an impressive 68-44 win over Burlington Central at the South Elgin shootout.

When asked what he feared most about Rolling Meadows boys basketball team, Buffalo Grove coach Keith Peterson had no doubts. “Their press is something that I worry about,” said Peterson. It came to be. The host Mustangs forced 16 turnovers in the first three quarters, scoring 15 points off those Bison miscues. That was enough of a difference to lift Rolling Meadows to a one-sided 68-36 Mid-Suburban East win.

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 East

Cameron Christie and Orlando Thomas showed that Rolling Meadows is ready to keep the Mustangs running. Christie scored 33 points, including going 20-for-20 from the free-throw line, while Thomas scored 15 including 6-for-6 from the line. The duo, who are only starters back from Rolling Meadows’ unbeaten team from last season, helped power the Mustangs past Montini 77-63 Monday in the opening game of the Chuck Mitchell Fenton tournament in Bensenville.

Max Christie of Rolling Meadows has been selected as the 2020-21 Gatorade Illinois Boys Basketball Player of the Year. Christie is the first Gatorade Illinois Boys Basketball Player of the Year to be chosen from Rolling Meadows High School.