Libertyville defeated Warren 41-37 as the Wildcats recorded their 11th IHSA regional championship in school history as well as a school record for wins in a season Friday night in the Class 4A Libertyville boys basketball regional title game.

Stevenson downed Warren 41-37 in a boys basketball game in Lincolnshire Friday night.

Who is on fire on the Lake County boys basketball scene, you ask? How about the Lakes Eagles, winners of six of their last eight games. Lakes is 6-2 in January and was 11-10 overall and a robust 7-1 in Northern Lake County Conference action as a result of its strong 2022 start.

The Grant boys basketball team has been on a nice run of late, winners of three in a row and four of its last six. During that span, Grant downed North Chicago by 42 points (76-34), Round Lake by 30 (64-34) and beat Northern Lake County Conference leader Grayslake Central by 14 (56-42).

Playing on the road again, Warren’s boys basketball team wasn’t fazed Friday night. The Blue Devils got big contributions from Andrew Dolan with a game-high 17 points, including 5 3-pointers in the second half, Adam Panek with 16 points and 10 rebounds, and Cooper Stacey 9 points, 6 rebounds and 2 blocked shots as they rolled to a 53-36 victory over host Mundelein in a North Suburban Conference game.

The positives keep rolling in for the Wauconda boys basketball team. The Bulldogs were 10-2 heading into the new year after winning the Marengo E.C. Nichols tournament.

Nate Harris scored a huge 4-point play in overtime as Warren fought off Plainfield North 55-53 in a game that was close throughout, on Wednesday morning in the 8 a.m. opening consolation bracket game at the Pontiac Holiday Tournament.

Warren certainly hopes to avoid Justin Mullins for the remainder of the boys basketball season. An Oak Park-River Forest senior committed to the University of Denver, Mullins single-handedly derailed the Blue Devils with his all-around brilliance in first-round action of the iconic Pontiac Holiday Tournament Tuesday afternoon, as OPRF won 81-55.

Lake County area boys basketball teams are headed to places such as Collinsville, Pekin, Centralia and Pontiac next week— here, there and everywhere.

The Warren boys basketball team has proved it can take the heat. The Blue Devils were 6-2 through their eight games, including opening North Suburban Conference action with a pair of close wins over Zion-Benton (59-54) and at Lake Zurich (42-39).

Fremd’s bigs came up large Tuesday in Palatine. Caiden Suchy, Ryan Simmons and Archie Cox combined for 36 of Fremd’s 56 points as the Vikings rolled past Warren 56-41 in a nonconference boys basketball game.

Vernon Hills boys basketball coach Mike McCarty took a lot of positives out of his team’s winning the Northridge Prep Battle at the Ridge tournament with a 4-0 mark.

There were a lot of ups and downs for the boys basketball teams from Warren and Carmel Catholic Saturday afternoon in the championship game of the Grant/Mundelein Thanksgiving Tournament. Despite trailing Carmel 30-18 late in the first half and 30-22 at halftime, Warren (3-1) was able to turn the tables on the Corsairs (3-1) in the second half as the Blue Devils barely held on for a 49-48 victory in a wild end to the tourney.

None of Warren’s boys basketball players stuffed the stats sheet on Thanksgiving Eve. They gobbled up a win instead, much to the delight of Blue Devils coach Jon Jasnoch. Ten of his hoopsters scored at least 2 points — paced by junior forward Adam Panek’s 12 points, followed by senior forward Cooper Stacey’s 11 — in Warren’s 53-36 defeat of Lakes at the Grant/Mundelein Thanksgiving tournament at Mundelein Wednesday night.

Here’s a look at the boys basketball season in the North Suburban Conference