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Nine state champions were crowned at the Mohegan Sun Arena last weekend. Record crowds turned out. Let’s take a chronological look at some of the things that occurred:
9 a.m.: Fans were already lined up at …
New Canaan vs. Granby, Division IV boys basketball championship
A decade ago, a small school in New Haven known as Amistad Academy began playing a varsity boys basketball schedule of just nine games. The team didn’t win any of them.
Year two brought six victories in 12 …
DIVISION I
No. 1 East Catholic (26-1)
vs. No. 6 Windsor (23-3)
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Trinity Catholic girls basketball coach Mike Walsh will step on the court Saturday afternoon at the Mohegan Sun Arena to try to become the second known CIAC coach to lead the same school to both a boys and girls state cham…
SOUTHINGTON — The last three girls basketball coaches standing from the Southern Connecticut Conference shared a lot of love Wednesday morning.
All three coaches — Hillhouse’s Catrina Hawley-Stewart, Sheeha…
NEW HAVEN — East Catholic has taken on all comers over the past two seasons and beat almost every opponent it faced.
Some boys basketball games were close, like the road trip at Bassick. Most were blowouts …
WATERBURY — Bassick wasn’t going to go down without a fight.
The Lions fought back from a double-digit deficit in the third quarter to turn Monday night’s Division I state boys basketball quarterfinal again…
Bassick vs. Windsor, Division I quarterfinals
at Wilby, Waterbury
GLASTONBURY — Maximus Edwards did all he could in the fourth quarter to keep the Bunnell boys basketball team alive Friday night.
The Bulldogs trailed all night long to Glastonbury in the Division II state …
MERIDEN — Ty Sullivan helped devise many defensive game plans as an assistant coach at Hillhouse High. They were normally designed to stop, or slow down, the opponent’s leading scorer.
Sullivan has continue…
SHELTON — The Notre Dame-West Haven boys basketball team had a week to think about losing in the SCC tournament final, falling short of winning its first league championship.
But that’s the beauty of a seco…
NEW HAVEN — Renard Sutton called it as he saw it: his Hillhouse Academics had underachieved this season.
But that’s the beauty of the postseason: a chance of redemption. And what better way to achieve that …
The 2019 Run to the Sun begins Monday, weather permitting. Who will be bringing home the championship hardware?
DIVISION I
Overview: It may be only 20 teams in the field, but the potential m…
ALL FOR ONE
Storyline: So now the streak stands at 105 consecutive wins in the Naugatuck Valley League for Sacred Heart. When you go that many years — the Hearts haven’t lost since the 2014 final to Crosby …
Timmond Williams, Trumbull: The FCIAC Player of the Year led the Eagles to the regular-season championship. He’s had some high-scoring games, a buzzer-beater against Ridgefield, and another last-secon…
Jere Quinn has been at it for four decades at St. Thomas More.
One of the most renowned prep school coaches in the country, Quinn has been running his post-graduate program with plenty of success (over 1,00…
MADISON — John Pinone doesn’t mince words when it comes to his boys basketball team good or bad.
He’s hard on the kids because he wants the best out of them. He loves the kids because of how hard they work …
HARTFORD — Calling it a tale of two halves in Thursday’s Central Connecticut Conference basketball final showdown would be selling both Windsor and East Catholic both short.
The two league powerhouses trade…
NEW HAVEN — It’s been quite some time since the Wilbur Cross boys basketball team has owned the city.
Cross coach Kevin Walton made a brief mention of it after Monday night’s win in the SCC tournament semif…
NEW HAVEN — Wilbur Cross was staring defeat in the face, down five point with under a minute remaining. But the Governors never lost faith.
The Governors made all their free throws down the stretch, one tyi…
Two years ago on the same night in the same city, Bassick and Weaver played for league tournament titles in boys basketball.
Bassick won the final Constitution State Conference tournament crown, winning at …
FINE PERFORMANCES
James St. Pierre, Ridgefield: Scored 42 points in the Tigers’ 77-52 win over Westhill. Also scored his 1,000th …
WEST HAVEN — You had to wonder if Hillhouse would ever turn its boys basketball season around.
It’s been a struggle for the proud program, suffering through as many losses that in the glory days wouldn’t ha…
Barry McLeod isn’t sure what exactly to expect Thursday night. He’s not used to having moments that are just about him, and him alone.
But the longtime boys basketball coach at Bridgeport Central will get o…
Jeff Nielsen quickly remembered the last time Amity was the No. 2 seed in the SCC boys basketball tournament.
It was 18 years ago, in 2001, when the tournament was just an eight-team field. North Haven’s Fr…
Bridgeport Central will name its basketball court after longtime boys basketball coach Barry McLeod in Wednesday’s season finale against Brien McMahon. It will be called Barry McLeod Court, according to school athletic dir…
Westbrook’s Savannah Marshall missed the last five games of the regular season with a right shoulder injury, according to head coach Kelly Landino. Landino, also Marshall’s mother, said she suffered the injury in a Jan. 28…
