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

Barrington got to the basket early and often Friday at the Class 4A boys basketball regional final at Buffalo Grove. The Broncos raced out to a huge lead and never looked back as the top-seeded team in the Barrington sectional beat Buffalo Grove 61-34 behind Will Grudzinski’s 27 points.

Beating a team three times in a season is tough enough. When you face that same opponent for the fourth time, and in the Class 4A state tournament, well it’s a whole new ballgame. But that’s what Buffalo Grove did Wednesday night in beating Wheeling 51-49 at home in the semifinals. The win now pits the Bison against Barrington Friday night.

Fremd defeated Buffalo Grove 53-49 in overtime in a Mid-Suburban League crossover boys basketball game Tuesday night.

Prospect rolled to a 71-53 Mid-Suburban League East Division boys basketball victory over Buffalo Grove Friday night in the first game played without face masks by either team in two seasons.

The Palatine and Buffalo Grove boys basketball teams will be hosting a fundraiser for the organization BrainUp on Tuesday during their Mid-Suburban League crossover game at BG.

Buffalo Grove’s boys basketball team has begun to put together a string of solid performances as of late, winning its third-straight contest and fifth in the last seven as it pulled out a 60-57 victory at archival Hersey Friday nigh

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.

Thanks to its ability to get off to a fast start, the Buffalo Grove boys basketball team was able to earn a 71-53 victory at Elk Grove Thursday night.

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”.

With neither team leading by more than four points until the final 11 seconds of the game, Monday night’s nonconference battle between host Buffalo Grove and Vernon Hills was a very close, back-and-forth basketball game the whole way.A rebound basket by Buffalo Grove’s Alex Beihoffer cut the Cougars’ lead to 62-60 with 25.2 seconds to play. But Vernon Hills hit 5-of-6 free throws in the final 22.4 seconds of the contest to pull away with a 67-60 victory.

Prospect junior Alex Georgakas knew after his first shot of the night, it would be a night to remember. And Georgakas was sizzling. He finished with a career-high 24 points including 5 3-pointers to go with 3 assists as the host Knights turned away Buffalo Grove 70-47.

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.

Buffalo Grove sophomore guard Connor Woodin spends six days a week practicing his long distance game. The work paid off but it was Woodin’s layup with 43 seconds left in the game that lifted the Bison to a 55-53 win in boys basketball action over Fremd Tuesday night.

Hampshire junior guard Sam Ptak’s wrong move turned out to be the right move with seconds remaining in the second overtime at the Wheeling Hardwood Classic Thursday night. Ptak’s 3-pointer gave Hampshire a 73-70 win over Buffalo Grove in the consolation championship.

Glenbard North’s duo of J.J. Hernandez and Donald Davis was a little bit to much to handle in the second half against Buffalo Grove at the Wheeling Hardwood Classic Monday afternoon. Hernandez, a 6-foot 6 sophomore, recorded a double-double with 15 points and 16 rebounds in the Panthers’ 55-54 win over the Bison.

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.

It’s been a season of big comebacks. And Buffalo Grove didn’t want to add its name to the list. The Bison led by 17 points in the second quarter and then watched as Wheeling rallied to cut the lead to just one. But Buffalo Grove dug deep and held off the Wildcats 62-50 Friday in a Mid-Suburban East boys basketball game in Buffalo Grove.

Imagine being able to feed a child for an entire year. Buffalo Grove’s boys’ basketball program did just that, taking a day off practice to volunteer packing meals at Feed My Starving Children in Schaumburg in early December.

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.

With a 49-29 lead after three quarters, it looked like host Buffalo Grove was going to cruise to victory Tuesday night in nonconference boys basketball action against Grant. But the Bison had to hang on for a 59-51 win.

Here’s a look at the boys basketball season in the Mid-Suburban East

Kam Craft, one of the top boys basketball players in Illinois, is leaving Buffalo Grove to enroll at Brandon Hall, an elite boarding school in Georgia that is associated with The Skill Factory, a developmental basketball program.

Buffalo Grove boys basketball standout Kam Craft has committed to play college basketball at Xavier University.