Garner's boys and Southeast Raleigh's girls are the Greater Neuse River 4A Conference regular-season basketball champions once again. The conference tournament begins on Monday with boys' quarterfinal games. Girls' play begins on Tuesday.

The Carolina 1A Conference will begin its conference prep basketball tournaments on Monday night. Ayden-Grifton won the boys regular-season title and Goldsboro topped the girls' field.
All games in the tournament will be played at Rosewood High School.

The Eastern Carolina 3A Conference wrapped up its regular-season prep basketball schedule on Thursday night. The conference, like so many others, starts its tournament week on Monday.

Triton (boys) and C.B. Aycock (girls) are the league's regular-season champions.

The tournament schedules...

High school football players who lose their helmets during play in the 2012 high school season must leave the field for one play according to a rule change adopted by the National Federation of State High School Association Football Rules Committee.

Cary High and Orange High will be among the host sites for the quarterfinal and semifinal round rounds of the N.C. High School Athletic Association dual-team wrestling tournament on Thursday.

South Johnston High has set its spring sports tryout dates. Tryouts for softball, baseball and boys tennis will begin at 2:30 at the field of play on Monday (Feb. 13). Tryouts for girls soccer begin at 4 p.m. on Monday, while boys golf tryouts begin at 3 p.m. at Reedy Creek Golf Course. Track and field tryouts will begin Feb. 20 at 2:30 p.m.

All prospects must have a completed physical form turned into their respective coach before participating in tryouts. Physical forms are available in the school's main office.

The N.C. High School Athletic Association playoffs are set to start this Tuesday. The first and second rounds will be played at one school site. With exception to the 1A bracket, the third and fourth rounds are held at a school on Thursday (the 1A only has one match that day for the regional title.

All four state championships Saturday between the East and West champion, also held at a school.

Three Johnston County high schools will host first and second round pods Tuesday as the NCHSAA dual team wrestling playoffs begin. Northern Carolina 2A Conference champion Corinth Holders, North Johnston and Clayton will all serve as host schools.

If you haven't read this blog on how the NCHSAA basketball playoffs will be seeded, do so now and come back here. You read it yet? Opened the excel spreadsheet? Good.

Now let's take some time to visualize what this year's boys and girls basketball playoffs would look like under these changes

Green Hope and Panther Creek made requests to the N.C. High School Athletic Associaton on Tuesday to place the schools in a league with other current Tri-Nine 4A schools.