Girls Basketball

The Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan awarded its top 3-point and free-throw shooters at the championship game halftimes during the Boys and Girls Basketball Finals over the last two weekends. Four champions were crowned, while the same player finished runner-...

To coach Jason Gray’s left sat Taylor Gleason, still in her Goodrich basketball uniform, but already representing the past for the Martians’ program just moments after her final high school game. To his right in the postgame press conference sat...

Taylor Manders placed a hand on each side of her head Saturday, not entirely sure what to say when her sister Jessie ran up and gave her a huge hug. A few seconds later, they and their teammates would celebrate the first MHSAA Finals championship in Manchester High Sch...

With the cameras capturing Grand Haven’s championship celebration, Abby Cole successfully avoided an emotional meltdown. That changed in the privacy of the Bucs’ locker room deep inside the Breslin Center. It was there that the 6-foot-5 sen...

Saturday’s Class D Final at the Breslin Center lined up to finish with another celebration for Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes, and one that would be etched into MHSAA history as the Lakers aspired for a fourth-straight title.  But St. Ignace also has been a...

On paper, at least, there were a few semi-viable reasons to not forecast Goodrich returning to Saturday’s Class B championship game at the Breslin Center.  But senior Taylor Gleason never bought any of it. She knew all along how this month would play out.&nb...

There was a time, not long ago, when Flint Powers Catholic was expected to show up at the MHSAA Girls Basketball Finals just about every season.  And there’s been an expectation these last few years that the Chargers would soon return. 

The last time Grosse Pointe South visited the Breslin Center, it came within 12 seconds of winning its first MHSAA girls basketball championship.  And there’s no hiding that the Blue Devils players and coaches have been planning for this weekend since just a...

Grand Haven’s girls basketball players toppled over each other on the Breslin Center floor Friday afternoon just as they did in celebrating their first Class A championship here a year before. But the Buccaneers also realized they have one more game to win to fin...

One way or another, Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes was going to be one of the most intriguing stories from this weekend’s MHSAA Girls Basketball Finals at the Breslin Center. But with a quarter to play in Thursday’s last Class D Semifinal, it wasn’t...

Senior Sarah Cullip and junior Kelley Wright learned a few things during their previous trips to Breslin Center that surely came to mind during Thursday’s Class D Semifinal against Climax-Scotts.  And with neither team able to find the back of the net, both ...

A photo at the Hengesbach home shows Saginaw Nouvel coach Kris and her then-seventh grade daughter Taylor hugging after the Panthers’ first MHSAA girls basketball championship, in 2007. They’re hoping to take the same picture Saturday, but this time with mo...

This season isn't the first that Manchester has looked like an MHSAA championship contender.  Big things were expected a year ago as well – but the Lady Dutch panicked in a Regional Final against Riverview Gabriel Richard and saw their season end t...

There are more unranked than top-ranked teams playing in this weekend's MHSAA Class A and B Semifinals at Michigan State University's Breslin Center. Dexter and Midland Bullock Creek didn't receive a vote in The Associated Press' polls heading into the offseason. But t...

Flint Northern, from 1978-81 in Class A, is the only school in MHSAA history to win four straight Girls Basketball Finals championships.  Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes can become the next to achieve that feat by claiming the Class D title this weekend.

Three reigning MHSAA girls basketball champions remain alive as we head into the final week of this season. They and two reigning runners-up are only one win away from returning to Michigan State University's Breslin Center.  But 27 more teams also sense how close...

The most-used coach cliche' this time of year revolves around the difficulty for a team to beat an opponent a third time in the playoffs after sweeping said opponent during the regular season.  But those words of wisdom played out in more than a few cases during g...

The girls basketball season has entered its final week, and teams are finishing historical runs and preparing to start anew Monday with the beginning of Districts all over the state.  This week's report highlights 10 teams that have been riding high of late, and f...

Few other regular-season wins could ever produce the joy that comes with a championship-clinching victory. But avenging a loss comes pretty close. 

Only a month's worth of games remain before the start of MHSAA girls basketball District tournaments.  And the teams that made this week's list of high performers surely have hit their strides.