Girls Basketball

After playing 32 minutes of a double-overtime Class C championship game against St. Ignace, Flint Hamady’s Kiyana Dudley-Thompson found herself alone for the final second of the 40-minute marathon on March 20, 2010. She made that second one of the most replayed i...

Two years later, we all know Bree Salenbien to be one of the state’s elite basketball stars. But heading into Adrian Lenawee Christian’s Class D Semifinal against Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart on March 15, 2018, she was known mostly in southeastern Michigan f...

Coaches always say at this point in the MHSAA Tournament that every team still playing has to be good, if not dangerous no matter what its W-L record shows.  And the last three months have boiled down to a mix of absolutely colossal and in some places unexpected m...

A lot has changed since David Wheelock coached high school basketball four years ago at Suttons Bay. Back then the team was called Suttons Bay. He had a freshman moved up from the junior varsity team named Paige Kohler. Northport High School was a local rival. Jim Cham...

This week, MHSAA assistant director Brent Rice explains one of the most misunderstood rules in basketball – the 3-second rule.

The season begins anew tonight for more than 700 girls basketball teams across Michigan. This week will end with 128 taking a giant first step as they pursue championship opportunities at Breslin Center later this month.

In the first practice without Bree Salenbien, the Lenawee Christian girls basketball team didn’t dwell on the fact the best player in the Division 4 tournament the last couple of seasons won’t be on the court for this season’s playoff run. “Prac...

Hannah Erla was so devastated by the diagnosis, she basically stopped listening. The Lapeer senior point guard had torn her ACL, which in her mind meant her final high school season was over after just four games. She wouldn’t be able to lead the Lightning to the...

March is almost here, warm weather downstate has given us at least a reminder of spring, and the final week of girls basketball regular season is another indication that the most exciting part of a long winter is nearly upon us. Of course, there are a few championship ...

Detroit Renaissance junior guard Kailee Davis scored a team-high 34 points with seven 3-pointers to lead Renaissance past Detroit Cass Tech 81-55 in last Friday’s Detroit Public School League Tournament championship game, earning the MHSAA “Performance of th...

This week, MHSAA officials coordinator Sam Davis announces the addition of a new resource to assist basketball officials across the state.

District seeds have been planted, league titles are being clinched seemingly every day and we’re fast-breaking into the final two weeks of this girls basketball season. In case you missed them, District brackets were posted for all four divisions Sunday – a...

By pure coincidence, it happened to be Valentine's Day. However, that date on the calendar served as the perfect backdrop when two schools and two officiating crews paired up for a "Coaches for Cancer" girls and boys basketball doubleheader Friday at Haslett High Schoo...

It didn’t take LaTonya Tate long to begin her basketball coaching career. But it took her 20 years to find the right fit. Tate is in her fifth season as girls varsity basketball coach at Detroit Cass Tech, and the Technicians are experiencing success not seen sin...

This week, MHSAA officials coordinator Sam Davis offers a basketball "You Make the Call" that comes into play when defensive and offensive players wind up in a stalemate.

With three seniors who had played at least parts of the last two seasons on varsity, and a standout freshman making her debut, the Caro girls basketball team had plenty of reasons to make winning its league the goal this winter. But with Reese coming off its 12th-strai...

It’s inaccurate, of course, to say this Michigan high school girls basketball season all comes down to this week. But lot will be decided over the next seven days.

We’re closing in quickly on that time of year when months of work will play out in girls basketball league championships and this winter – for the first time – seeding of the top two teams at the District level. Much could be determined in league race...

We could list the 20 most standings-shaking matchups coming up in girls basketball this week and probably call it good for this “Breslin Bound” report. At least 15 games statewide will pit teams tied for first in their leagues, or teams that could be tied f...

This week, MHSAA assistant director Brent Rice clears up misconceptions concerning backboards and basketball goaltending.