high school basketball

Part of the fun of participating in high school sports is when your friends can come and see you play in the games. Unfortunately, incidents and accusations involving racist behavior is prohibiting student-athlete from having their classmates at games. Several times in the past few weeks incidents involving New York based high schools were involved in such events.

Last year, high school seniors in New York State played their final basketball games in mostly empty gyms with masks covering two thirds of their friends and coaches faces. The mask part won't be much different for now but full gyms are expected and even encouraged in 2022. That is a good thing for everyone involved, even if you still can't see the smile.

It was a busy schedule in Section II Friday night with 34 games on the schedule for boys basketball and another 29 match ups for the girls. A big shout out to everyone new that has included us in your score distributions this week. We greatly appreciate it.

Fridays are always busy on high school fields and courts, December 10th one was no exceptions. There were 38 basketball games on the Section II schedule for the boys and 32 match ups for the girls. Anyone that wants to submit photos of games, it will be greatly appreciated. You can submit them to charles.voelker@townsquaremedia.com.

A league established for high school basketball players claims it pays its players $100K, or more, per year. Is this dangerous for athletes in New York and beyond?

Tuesday night, Syracuse police were called to break up a fight on the basketball court of Henninger High School. Henninger was playing Syracuse Academy of Science in basketball. When police are called to high schools, it is never a good thing. When they are called to high school basketball games to break up a fight, you scratch your head to try to understand. As in many cases, the fight on the court that resulted in a call to police, allegedly did not involve any players in the game.

The Holiday Season seems to bring out the best and the worst, in some cases, but let's focus on the best. The 'Best' is the category that I put Cicero-North Syracuse boys basketball coach Kyle Martin in this season. No, I am not talking about winning basketball games. I am talking about winning in life.

A former high school standout-turned-NBA flame-out is one of 18 former players embroiled in a scam against the league, one that paid them thousands of dollars.

The Glens Falls junior basketball player is on a historic pace.

Nobody in New York's Capital Region has had the close up view on the area's best young players the way that Steve Dagostino has. Dagostino, the owner of Dags Basketball training company, has made a habit of bringing the top talent in the 518 to his private facility to help the young players grow...

After a phenomenal winter season, the recognition keeps rolling in for Section II's best basketball players. Joe Cremo (Scotia) was named the NYS Class A Player of the Year after helping lead the Tartans to the Section II, Regional, State and Federation championships...

The schedule keeps saying that spring is coming and basketball season is winding down, but it really feels like this season just keeps on going. And for Section II, it does. Three Capital Region teams captured New York State Championships this past weekend at the Glens Falls Civic Center including Green Tech (AA), Scotia (A) and Hoosic Valley (C)...