high school basketball

Six teams from Section II will have a chance to play for a coveted state championship next weekend. It was yet another great weekend of basketball that highlighted the best this area has to offer. Five of the eight teams in action got to play at Hudson Valley Community College on Saturday, and a great crowd came out all day to see the action...

Three Section II representatives took to the hardwood on Wednesday, with the Scotia boys and the Fort Edward girls winning to advance to the regional finals this weekend. Here is a look where Section II stands right now. Class AA Boys:  Green Tech will play Utica-Proctor in the regional finals on Saturday, March 8 at 7:30 p...

After the last court storming and the last team dance party had ended, the high school basketball sectionals were over Monday night at the Times Union Center. But all I can say is wow, what a way to go out. It seems only fitting that the Class AA finals would end with another major upset and yet another great performance from one of the area’s best players...

An unbelievable sectional season wraps up tonight with Class AA action at the Times Union Center. The girls kick things off at 6:30 with Albany and Shenendehowa while the boys take the court after with Green Tech and Guilderland. Both should be great matchups...

A local high school basketball player is on the verge of making history, as Berne-Knox Westerlo senior Garrett Pitcher could break his school's scoring record in tonight's game against Mayfield. Pitcher has scored 23 points per game in his distinguished career and, at 984 career points, is just 16 points away from reaching the 1,000 point mark...

People love to complain whenever a team runs up the score in the NFL, saying that coaches like Bill Belichick should pull punches towards the end of games. Those people should focus their attention on other sports, like girls high school basketball, after a team in Indiana beat an opponent by 105 points, 107-2...

This poor kid takes getting crossed over to a new level.  Typically, when defenders get their ankles broken by getting crossed over, they don't get airborne.  This guy does.

Sometimes, the simplest things get overlooked; like knowing which basket is yours.  Check out this embarrassing video of a kid scoring the winning hoop for his opponent.

Check out this video of a high school basketball team giving its opponent the business.

What did you do this weekend?  Did you watch the NCAA Tournament?  Did you hang out with family? My weekend was filled with basketball - lots of it - in Glens Falls.  Oh yeah, I also hung out with Kentucky Head Coach John Calipari.

It's down the final weekend of the high school basketball season as 5 Section II teams will all be going for New York State Championships.

Brian Sinkoff was joined Monday (3/14/11) on "Sound-off with Sinkoff" by Eric Medved, writer of the "House of Hoops" blog for the Times Union.