The N.C. High School Athletic Association clarified at least one part of its new playoff format for the boys and girls basketball playoffs.
While the NCHSAA is switching from its old playoff structure to one much that looks much like how the football brackets are decided, it will not be changing how teams qualify for the playoffs.
John Wall plays for the Washington Wizards, CJ Leslie for North Carolina State and highly recruited Torian Graham left Word of God to play his senior season for a school in Jacksonville, Fla.
But the absence of such alums didn't make Middle Creek's win over Raleigh Word of God any less satisfying to the Mustangs.
RALEIGH – Both Sanderson and Wakefield have used defense to win games this season. So it came as no surprise that their first meeting of the season went down to the final minutes as visiting Wakefield escaped with a 47-44 victory.
Leading 44-37 with less than two minutes remaining, Wakefield seemed to have the game wrapped up.
The lead quickly closed as Sanderson’s Parker Fennema scored five quick points to cut Wakefield’s lead to just one.
Wakefield (5-0, 1-0 Cap Eight 4-A) though hit two of four free-throws in the final minute to create the three-point margin. Sanderson inbounded the ball with six seconds remaining, but the Spartans were unable to get off the 3-pointer they needed as Wakefield’s defense smothered Gloire Biongo.
CARY When first-year Wake Forest-Rolesville boys basketball coach Mickey Bissette took over, he thought he'd have to do a lot more encouraging. No current Cougars player, after all, has ever played in a postseason game.
But instead, Bissette has found himself with a team who hasn't stopped trying for him.
Is it just me or are the number of injuries in this year's Tri-Nine Conference basketball season through the roof?
Holly Springs had three chances to score the winning basket in its game Thursday night against Heritage. And the third time was the charm.
Here is the video as Golden Hawks senior Brock Hall collects the offensive rebound and hits the game-winner with just more than four seconds left for a 55-54 non-conference win.
CARY A new court. A new mural in one end of the gymnasium. New jerseys.
Yep, it's easy to see that there a few changes surrounding this year's Green Hope boys basketball team.
Terry Henderson Jr., a senior guard at Neuse Christian Academy, announced his commitment to play basketball at West Virginia on local radio Monday afternoon.
Henderson, 17, understood he needed to have the best summer in his young career in order to attract major Division I schools. By late June, West Virginia decided to offer Henderson a scholarship, and in July, Mountaineers coach Bob Huggins watched him play in an AAU tournament.
Crasten Davis is the new boys basketball coach at Hillside, according to Hornets athletics director Bobby Hill.
It only took Raleigh Body of Christ junior Isaiah Hicks four hours Monday night to accept North Carolina’s scholarship offer.
“It was my dream school,” the 6-feet-9, 198-pound power forward said Tuesday, “So why wait?”
Hicks, who is originally from Oxford, is currently rated a five-star recruit, and the fifth-ranked power forward prospect in the Class of 2013 by scout.com. He becomes the first player to verbally commit to UNC in that class. A life-long Carolina fan, he was also being recruited by Clemson, N.C. State and Wake Forest, among others.
