Girls Basketball

A high school senior known statewide finished an incredible career Saturday during the MHSAA Class D championship game at the Breslin Center. But it was the lone senior on the other side of the floor who accepted the winner’s trophy as her classmates chanted &ld...

Bailey Baker plans to graduate from Eaton Rapids this spring with 16 varsity letters won in four sports. Like others on her basketball team, she’s had plenty of success on others as well. But there’s something special about what the Greyhounds have accompl...

Both teams playing in the first MHSAA Class B Semifinal on Friday had learned valuable lessons from their trip to the Breslin Center – and Semifinal defeat – the year before. But only one could move on to Saturday night’s championship game.

As all-girls schools located 7.2 miles apart in the Detroit suburbs, Bloomfield Hills Marian and Farmington Hills Mercy have plenty in common. And then there’s the basketball rivalry they took up a level this winter.

The way Canton wins would be easy to overlook, if not for the key word in that statement. It’s become impossible to ignore the defensive-minded Chiefs, who entered this postseason as only an honorable mention in the final Associated Press Class A poll – an...

Lexi Gusset finally got to smile with about five seconds left in Friday’s last Class D Semifinal at the Breslin Center. Her frustration melted, she yelled “Let’s go! One more game,” before being enveloped by a similarly relieved group of teamma...

Marine City Cardinal Mooney knew about point guard Sara Hansen, the Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart’s only senior. It had a plan for 6-foot-3 sophomore center Averi Gamble, and it worked well at the start of Thursday’s Class D Semifinal. But Cardinals’ c...

St. Ignace senior Kelley Wright set an MHSAA record by being part of her 102nd high school basketball victory Thursday at the Breslin Center. This had to be one of the ugliest – but could end up one of the most meaningful as well.

Just about every team that reaches an MHSAA championship game and leaves with a runner-up trophy makes plans, rather immediately, to return the following season and finish the title run.   Easier said than done, obviously. But Saginaw Nouvel gave itself no other ...

The most fun angle to this weekend's Class A and B Girls Basketball Finals at the Breslin Center is that none of the eight teams still alive in those classes has won an MHSAA championship since at least 1998.  In fact, four of the eight have never played in an MHS...

There will be some who arrive for the MHSAA Class C and D Semifinals on Thursday already quite familiar with the Breslin Center. Reigning Class D champion St. Ignace is back, this time in Class C. The reigning runner-up from that class, Saginaw Nouvel, also returns. So...

We've reached the final week of another MHSAA girls basketball season. And we're guaranteed to name at least three new champions when this week is done.  Only St. Ignace, last season's Class D winner, is still alive heading into tonight's Quarterfinals. And the Sa...

District tournaments give teams the best kind of opportunity to pay back their neighbors for a disappointing loss (or two) from earlier in the winter. Win, and the avenging team not only gets that revenge – but ends the opponent’s season.

Tickets for the Michigan High School Athletic Association Girls and Boys Basketball Finals are on sale now from the Breslin Center Ticket Office.

Nearly 700 girls basketball teams will begin a march this week they hope will end March 15 with an MHSAA championship trophy at Michigan State University's Breslin Center.  District tournaments tip-off all over the state tonight, giving every team an equal start&n...

The number of undefeated girls basketball teams left this late in the season is dwindling. But there are plenty of strong squads who have stumbled only once or a few times along the way. These are some that impressed last week in adding to impressive runs so far th...

Girls basketball teams are facing the final month of their regular seasons and for most a second run through a familiar slate of opponents. Teams on this week's list are among those that took big steps last week toward finishing that slate strong as the tournament awa...

By the end of this week, we'll have reached the midpoint of this girls basketball regular season. But plenty of teams are showing they might just be warming up for a much longer run this winter.

If the first month of this MHSAA girls basketball season is an indication, this winter's march to the Class A championship game could be one of the most entertaining we've seen over the last decade.  That's the clearest observation from games played during the hol...

Those who regularly contend for MHSAA titles or monitor high school sports statewide always are on the lookout for surprise teams making an impression at the beginning of a season or showing signs of contending at the end.  A number of teams making this week&rsqu...