A pair of long-standing MSL boys basketball coaches that met in the conference title game in 2019 both submitted their resignations Monday.

Fifteen victories and a winning record on the season. Schaumburg boys basketball coach Wade Heisler said that those two objectives were goals for his team this year, and they achieved both in a 45-36 win over Wheeling Tuesday night.

Fremd held Schaumburg to just 6 points in the second half - only 1 in the fourth quarter - enroute to a 35-26 boys basketball win in the Mid-Suburban West Friday night.

With some great free throw shooting down the stretch, Conant (13-10, 4-4) was able to pull away for a 53-43 Mid-Suburban West boys basketball victory over Schaumburg Tuesday night.

Schaumburg’s boys basketball team amassed 5 dunk s— getting 2 apiece from seniors Nicholas Doroskin and DeJaunte Wilson, plus 1 from senior Fabian Baez — Saturday afternoon and emerged with a 66-38 defeat of visiting Streamwood in nonconference action.

It’s safe to say that nobody saw this one coming when host Barrington met Schaumburg Thursday night in Mid-Suburban West boys basketball action as the Broncos posted a lopsided 55-22 victory over the Saxons.

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.

Sam Millstone sank 4 clutch free throws down the stretch as Palatine held off a determined Schaumburg team 50-44 in a Mid-Suburban West boys basketball game Thursday.

Ryan Sammons’ first feel-good moment was Feb. 20, 2021. Then a Fremd sophomore, Sammons hit a game-winning 3-pointer to beat Prospect. A 19-point performance by Sammons helped lift Fremd to a 46-41 Mid-Suburban West boys basketball win over Schaumburg in Palatine Friday night. Sammons would hit 5 of 8 3-point attempts.

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”.

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.

Schaumburg and Elk Grove came into their Mid-Suburban League boys basketball crossover Tuesday seeking to build momentum from successful efforts each team had during the holidays. Thanks to their ability to first rally from a early second half deficit, control a red-hot shooting performance, and be able to post of pair of successful surges in the second half, Schaumburg earned its third straight win with a 70-63 win at Charles Aldrich Gymnasium to move to 10-6 on the year.

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.

Schaumburg’s boys basketball team is used to quick starts and slow finishes this season. On the other hand, Lakes has slow starts but strong finishes. So when the two teams met Saturday afternoon in Schaumburg, the end result was a heart-pounder. The Saxons held on 47-42 in nonconference play to improve to 6-4. The hard-luck Eagles, who only had 7 players in uniform, fell to 5-7.

Conant boys basketball coach Matt Walsh admitted before Friday’s game that he had some butterflies in his system. After all, Walsh spent five years as the head boys basketball coach at Schaumburg. He was also an all-conference and all-area player for Conant. Now, in his first year at his alma mater, Walsh’s Cougars topped the host Saxons 45-33 in a Mid-Suburban West game.

Barrington’s experience won out over Schaumburg, 57-51, Friday night in a Mid-Suburban West boys basketball game.

The success of Palatine’s boys basketball this season will be a result of its defense. The host Pirates’ defense stood out in a 30-20 Mid-Suburban League West win over Schaumburg Friday night.

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