Stevenson put forth an outstanding team effort to defeat Prospect 59-43 and win the Class 4A Mundelein boys basketball regional championship game Friday night.

Prospect downed Palatine 58-39 Tuesday night in a Mid-Suburban League crossover boys basketball game.

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.

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

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.

Prospect history teacher Brad Rathe coaches girls golf in the fall, boys basketball in the winter and boys tennis in the spring.

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”.

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.

Barrington grabbed an 8-point lead before halftime, and extended it late in a 47-32 boys basketball win over Prospect at Jean Walker Field House in Mount Prospect Tuesday night.

It was still assistant coach night for both Prospect and Libertyville Thursday in the third-place game of the Wheeling Hardwood Classic. Prospect head coach Brad Rathe and Libertyville head coach Brian Zyrkowski both were still in COVID protocols and not able to be on the bench. But that did not mater to either team as Libertyville cruised past Prospect 65-44.

The halftime run. It’s a great way to jog to the finish. On Tuesday, Prospect used a 13-0 run to close out the first half in its convincing win over Notre Dame. On Wednesday, Prospect had the tables turned. Glenbrook North used a a similar 13-0 run to help propel it to a 57-48 win over the Knights in the semifinals of the Wheeling Hardwood Classic.

Basketball and COVID took more strange turns together at the 43rd annual Wheeling Hardwood Classic Tuesday in Wheeling.Prospect beat Notre Dame 57-39 in a quarterfinal game that was clearly affected by COVID protocols.

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.

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.

It was rookie night in Hoffman Estates Tuesday. First-year head coach Brad Rathe’s Prospect Knights edged first-year head coach Peter McBride’s Hoffman Hawks 40-36 in a Mid-Suburban League boys basketball crossover battle. Prospect’s Owen Schneider hit a pair of free throws with 2.7 seconds left to clinch the victory.

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

Even though they are 6-foot-8 brothers, Chase Bonder, a senior, and Cole, a junior, don’t always have that brotherly love when they play one-on-one in their Libertyville driveway. “We can get into it when we play against each other in the driveway or at the gym,” said Chase Bonder. “We play each other tough so we can both get better. We’re looking forward to playing with each other on the floor. We’ve played a lot of one-on-one. We know how each other plays and we learn from each other.”