BROOKFIELD — Momentum after a defeat is a rare feeling, but the way the Brookfield boys basketball team played in its last contest, it could only head into the Division III state tournament feeling another March Madness chapter is about to begin. It certainly carried over into the first round of states Monday as the […]
Girls Basketball: Defense leads Trumbull past Newtown, into Class LL semifinals
TRUMBULL — The Trumbull girls basketball team went scoreless for more than six minutes to begin the fourth quarter of Monday’s Class LL quarterfinal against Newtown.Fortunately for the Eagles, they did enough work on the defensive end over…
Boys Basketball: GTCT’s Joe Morelli talks CIAC Tournament with The Day’s Sports Doctor
The CIAC Boys Basketball State tournaments begin today and, in addition to his extensive preview coverage, GameTimeCT’s own Joe “Hoops” Morelli joined Keith O’Brien — aka “The Sports Doctor” — to discuss what’s what in boys basketball on O’Brien’s weekly podcast hosted by The Day of New London. Morelli breaks down his thoughts on the […]
Boys basketball: Doug Bonjour’s CIAC Tournament primer
No, your eyes are not deceiving you.The CIAC boys basketball tournament has undergone change. This year’s tournament has expanded to five divisions, a slight change from the four-class format that had been in place for years.First-round play…
GameTimeCT / Register Boys Basketball Top 10 Poll: East Catholic remains on top as CIAC tournaments begin
The CIAC tournaments are about to begin. Who will be the five state champions? The top 10 has been filled with Division I teams all season long and this week is no different. How many of them will be in there when the final poll comes out in two weeks? East Catholic remains No. 1, […]
Boys basketball: Who will be the five teams left standing in two weeks?
Five divisions instead of four to take the crystal ball out of the moth balls and see what we can forecast for the upcoming CIAC Boys Basketball Championships: Division I Overview: Fans have been looking forward to seeing this field play out all season long. Two of the three remaining unbeatens, CCC tournament champion East […]
Boys basketball: Five players to keep an eye on during the CIAC tournaments
Mikey Buscetto, Waterford Point guard makes things go for the Eastern Connecticut Conference champions. Now Buscetto hopes to help the Lancers win some additional hardware in the Class M division at the Mohegan Sun Arena floor in a couple of weeks. George Gamble, Windsor A true difference maker, Windsor wasn’t the same team in the […]
Boys basketball: Ten things to keep an eye on during the CIAC tournaments
Cool Hand Luke Storyline: East Catholic has the fearsome front line, led by Matt Veretto and Trey Hall, a fine shooting guard in Joey Reilly, a dependable point guard in Jamil Hornesby and one of the state’s best bench coaches in Luke Reilly, who already owns two state championships and four trips to the finals […]
Connecticut faces a lack of varsity basketball referees
The referee on the baseline had been hearing complaints from the crowd all night. Experienced refs know how to block out the complaints, but in the second half one of the voices seemed closer than before. As the official turned his head, he saw a parent from the home team voicing his displeasure over a […]
Girls Basketball: Wethersfield staves off Pomperaug, advances to Class L quarterfinals
Rejection leads to score, Wethersfield leads Pomp 27-24 near the half #ctgb pic.twitter.com/Gvpbk5x0OJ — Ryan Lacey (@RyanLacey11) March 4, 2018 SOUTHBURY—With news filtering in with scores from elsewhere, the prospect of a third home game in the class L tournament wold be presented if the Pomperaug girls basketball team could overcome a four-point halftime deficit […]
Can we please get a shot clock?
And this ladies and gentlemen is why we need that shot clock. Weaver has held the ball the entire 3rd quarter so far. 4 minutes and counting…zzzzz #ctgb @GameTimeCT pic.twitter.com/uNRsaGu5XA — CT Starters AAU (@ctstarters) March 4, 2018 Behold, above, the thrilling action in the third quarter from Saturday’s Class L girls basketball second round […]
Boys Basketball: Warde’s Sean Conway scoring at a historic pace
Double-teams. Triple-teams. Gimmick defenses. FCIAC boys basketball coaches have thrown everything but the kitchen sink at Sean Conway in an effort to prevent the Fairfield Warde star from scoring. Few, if any, however, have been successful. Conway’s senior season, in which he’s averaging a whopping 31.5 points per game, ranks statistically as one of the […]
Boys Basketball: FCIAC championship the win of a lifetime for Danbury’s Bock
Danbury High School boys basketball coach Casey Bock was a student at Hayestown Avenue Elementary School when the Hatters won three consecutive FCIAC championships in 1990, ‘91 and ‘92. He remembers watching the likes of Anthony Harris and Marlon Scott lead those dominant Danbury teams to victory, hoping one day to follow in their footsteps […]
Boys Basketball: Burton dominates Trumbull, leads Danbury to first FCIAC championship in 26 years
WILTON — There was never any doubt in Denali Burton’s mind about who would go home Thursday night with an FCIAC championship.Burton, the 6-foot-4 forward who spent most of the Hatters’ semifinal win over Trinity Catholic on the bench bec…
Boys Basketball: Reaves spurs Notre Dame-Fairfield past Immaculate, to third-straight SWC championship
MONROE — After an admittedly poor defensive effort in the SWC tournament semifinals Tuesday against Brookfield, Notre Dame-Fairfield was determined to bring back the intensity in Thursday night’s championship game against Immaculate. And like they’ve done throughout this perfect season, the Lancers brought the pressure. They dominated the backboards, controlled the momentum and led wire-to-wire […]
Girls Basketball: Santoro, Mercy sweep past Stamford, into Class LL quarterfinals
MIDDLETOWN — In March, seniors can be unstoppable forces on the basketball court. The last journey through the state tournament can bring incredible responses from players. The Mercy High School girls basketball team played like a group that is hungry for its first state title since 2013 Thursday night as the No. 2 seeded Tigers […]
Girls Basketball: Wilson leads Newtown in Class LL second-round victory over Hamden
NEWTOWN — The Newtown girls basketball team has produced different heroes in many of its wins of the season. And with its life on the line in the Class LL playoffs Thursday, it was sophomore Cyleigh Wilson’s time to shine.Wilson scored 15 …
Thursday’s Girls Basketball Roundup: Schlottman, East Haven roll into M quarterfinals; Enfield ousts ND-Fairfield
CLASS M 2nd round Kylie Schlottman had 26 points to lead the No. 2 East Haven girls basketball team to an 81-29 win over No. 15 Plainfield in a CIAC Class M second round game in East Haven on Thursday. Makenzie Helms added 15 points and 10 assists and Alexis Pendziwater had 12 points for […]
Girls Basketball: Top-seeded Northwestern survives North Branford, advances to Class M quarterfinals
WINSTED — No. 1 Northwestern played the survival game in a 49-43 win over No. 16 North Branford that was decided in the final minute of a Class M second-round girls basketball game at Northwestern High School Thursday night.“We knew they w…
Girls Basketball: Second consecutive buzzer-beater (from Hemstock this time) propels Sheehan into Class M quarterfinals
BETHEL — Back-to-back buzzer-beaters have lifted the Sheehan High School girls basketball team to back-to-back thrilling victories in the first two rounds of the Class M state tournament.Only three days after Lexi Ocasio’s last second shot…
Girls Basketball: Hall tops Wilton in Class LL second round
WEST HARTFORD — It wasn’t all that long ago that Rob Coloney was working full-time as a television broadcaster with the New York Yankees, hobnobbing with the likes of Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada and Mariano Rivera.On the other side of the pr…
Girls Basketball: Rene’s layup at buzzer lifts Norwalk over Amity in double OT in Class LL 2nd round
NORWALK — There was no specific play drawn up during the timeout before Amity went to the line with the game tied and 7.2 seconds left in the second overtime.Norwalk coach Ricky Fuller just told his team to get the rebound and find the open …
Boys basketball: East Hampton focused on moving forward after incident and coach’s suspension
East Hampton will be playing for the Shoreline boys basketball championship Friday night. Hale-Ray’s season ended last week. But the two programs are still working to move forward after an incident in January resulted in a hard foul on an East Hampton player, then the eventual one-game suspension of East Hampton coach Parker Strong. Strong […]
Boys basketball: League predictions day 7 and 8
The final two days all in one: 62-15 record coming in…. CCC final (at Bulkeley) East Catholic vs. Windsor: Windsor has played East Catholic close both times and maybe has the blueprint: press off everything, volume 3-point shooting and send everyone to the boards. Plus, they rallied to beat Simsbury in OT in the semis. […]
Wednesday’s New Haven County boys basketball roundup: Punter leads Canterbury over Hamden Hall in NE quarterfinals
Kiefer Punter had 21 points and manny Ansong added 18 to lead the Canterbury boys basketball team to an 81-66 win over Hamden Hall in the New England tournament quarterfinals at Canterbury on Wednesday. Tre Breland scored 20 points and Andrew Rice added 17 for the Hornets (20-5). Tim Dawson added 15 points for the […]
Boys basketball: Hamden beats Hillhouse to claim first SCC title
NEW HAVEN — Jaylen Ricks encouraged the Hamden faithful to rise up from their seats at the Floyd Little Athletic Center. Victor Rosario pumped his fist several times. Time still remained on the clock, but the Green Dragons had begun the celebration. They had beaten everyone they faced in the Southern Connecticut Conference all season […]
Boys Basketball: Buscetto, Waterford get their payback, top rival East Lyme to win first ECC title
Here’s Waterford winning its first ECC basketball championship #ctbb pic.twitter.com/Tjy5wXkmM0 — Sean Patrick Bowley (@SPBowley) March 1, 2018 WATERFORD — Round 1 went to Dev Ostrowski and East Lyme in a regular-season thriller that had everybody in this corner of Connecticut praying for a rematch. Eastern Connecticut got what it wanted in Wednesday’s ECC Division […]
Boys basketball: Danbury one win from snapping FCIAC title drought
DANBURY—A win in the FCIAC final Thursday would be a significant one for many in Danbury, including family, friends, fans and current and former players.But at the top of that list is likely Hatters coach Casey Bock, who has not only turned …
SWC boys basketball championship capsule: ND-Fairfield vs. Immaculate
No. 1 Notre Dame-Fairfield Lancers vs. No. 2 Immaculate MustangsWHERE/WHEN — at Masuk High School; Thursday, 7 p.m.RECORDS — ND-Fairfield: 22-0, 15-0 SWC; Immaculate: 18-4, 13-2HOW THEY GOT HERE — ND-Fairfield: Defeated No. 8 Newtown 80-…
Boys basketball: League tournament predictions, Day 6
Berkshire final Morthwestern at Wamogo: tewamsplit during the regular season. Home-court advantage usually means something in a championship final. WAMOGO. CTC semifinals Abbott Tech at Prince Tech. PRINCE TECH Wilcox Tech at Goodwin tech. Only losses for Goodwin are to Prince Tech (twice ) and WILCOX TECH. ECC Division II final (at Waterford) St. Bernard […]
#Tweet-Your-Buzzer-Beaters: Trinity Catholic’s Caitlyn Scott goes coast-to-coast to end Canton’s two-year Class S reign
Miracle in Canton! from SCG Station on Vimeo. UPDATE: Check the nice version of this play, above, via SCG Station on Vimeo. ♦♦♦ Canton has claimed the the last two Class S girls basketball championships and, as a No. 2 seed with an 18-3 overall record, was as good a choice as any to three-peat […]
Boys Basketball: Notre Dame-Fairfield survives Brookfield, advances to face Immaculate in SWC final
FAIRFIELD — The door to the Notre Dame-Fairfield locker room stayed closed for a long time. It’s not every day that the coach of an undefeated team keeps his players behind locked doors but that’s just what Lancers coach Chris Watts did. Yes, they won but there was a message that needed to be sent. […]
Boys Basketball: Trumbull holds off Norwalk to reach first FCIAC final since 1983
WILTON — It’s starting to feel a lot like 1983.The Trumbull boys basketball team is heading to the FCIAC championship game for the first time in 35 years after fending off eighth-seeded Norwalk 82-75 on Tuesday at Zeoli Field House.Norwalk…
Girls basketball: Pomperaug pulls away from Tolland in Class L first round
SOUTHBURY — To say the very least, the end of the SWC season was not satisfactory for the Pomperaug girls basketball team.But fortunately for the Panthers, one big prize lies ahead of them: a possible Class L championship.Seventh-seeded Pomp…
Boys Basketball: Lineup change helps Danbury hold off Trinity Catholic, reach FCIAC championship game
WILTON — It was not the game plan coming in, but when foul trouble sent Danbury center Denali Burton to the bench in the third quarter, the Danbury boys basketball team was forced to go with a smaller lineup.That lineup caused trouble for Tr…
Boys basketball: League tournament predictions, Day 5
Lightning round…49-12 so far, not terrible. Semifinals….. CCC East Catholic vs. Bristol Central. EAST CATHOLIC Windsor vs. Simsbury. Simsbury is one of the CCC’s best year in and year out and a win here wouldn’t surprise me in the least. Still…WINDSOR FCIAC Norwalk vs. Trumbull. Norwalk pulled of the big upset Saturday. Trumbull has had […]
#Tweet-Your-Buzzer-Beaters: Ocasio’s layup at the horn propels Sheehan girls into Class M second round
It’s playoff time, and Sheehan’s girls basketball team didn’t waste time capturing our first winning buzzer-beater of 2018 CIAC tournaments. Doing the honors was Lexi Ocasio, who scored on a layup at the horn to lift the Titans to a 47-45 victory over Waterford in the Class M girls basketball tournament first round. Lexi Ocasio […]
Monday’s girls basketball roundup: Seymour advances in Class M with 2OT win over Lewis Mills
Syndnie Drezek scored 24 points and Molly Kennedy had 19 as Seymour outlasted Lewis Mills in a 63-58, two-overtime victory in the Class M girls basketball tournament first round at Seymour. Kennedy finished with 10 rebounds, four steals and five assists for Seymour. Drezek had five rebounds. The 11th-seeded Wildcats advance to face No. 6 […]
Girls Basketball: Laugeni dominates as Amity stuns No. 10 Warde in Class LL first round
FAIRFIELD — At this point of the season, when the parameters change from simply turning the page to one-and-done, every team’s focus becomes single-minded. Survive and advance. And that’s just what 23rd-seeded Amity did in its first-round Class LL tournament game against No. 10 Warde Monday night, the Spartans survived and the Spartans advanced. Thanks […]
Girls Basketball: Notre Dame-Fairfield dominates Darien in Class LL first round
FAIRFIELD — The Darien girls basketball team — with its three six-foot players — presents a rare challenge for most opponents. In the Class LL opener, Notre Dame-Fairfield found the answer. Behind an aggressive zone, the No. 9 Lancers held No. 24 Darien to single digits in three out of four quarters, downing the Blue […]
Boys Basketball: Immaculate gets defensive, rallies past Kolbe Cathedral to reach SWC championship
DANBURY — There are few teams that play better with the lead than the Immaculate boys basketball team. And when the Mustangs seized the lead for the first time late in the third quarter of their SWC semifinal against Kolbe Cathedral, they weren’t about to give it up. After overcoming a double-digit deficit, a 21-8 […]
Girls Basketball: Super Fudge sparks Middletown’s Class LL 1st round takedown of Ridgefield
RIDGEFIELD — After putting a fitting exclamation point at the end of the Middletown girls basketball team’s victory over Ridgefield with an electrifying steal, drive and layup in the final minute Monday night, Amanda Fudge crumpled awkwardly to the floor under the basket and grabbed the back of her leg in pain. All night long, […]
Girls Basketball: No. 12 Wilton holds off challenge from No. 21 NFA in Class LL 1st round
WILTON — All victories look the same on paper and in the brackets at state tournament time.Victories translate into survival and advancing. The opportunity for a special group of girls basketball players to continue a journey for at least a …
Girls Basketball: Wilbur Cross gets hot in second half, rallies past Staples in Class LL 1st round
WESTPORT — At the half, Wilbur Cross was trailing Staples by five points. The Governors had been behind for the majority of the game and coach Tyrees Thomas said he challenged his team in the locker room.“I told the girls at halftime,” h…
Girls Basketball: Led by its seniors, Stamford ousts E.O. Smith from Class LL 1st round
STAMFORD — For the three starting seniors on the Stamford girls basketball team, there was no other way to play their final game at Kuczo Gymnasium than by getting after it on defense.The No. 15 Black Knights smothered No. 18 E.O. Smith from…
Boys Basketball: University Magnet slips by Amistad
University Magnet 57, Amistad 56 (at Hartford) UNIVERSITY19 4 15 19—57 AMISTAD12 19 12 13—56 Amistad (13-8) Eli Blackwell 2 2-4 6 AJ Edwards 10 2-4 24 Cyprien Joseph 1 0-0 2 Robert Reed 2 0-0 5 Isaiah Joyner 3 0-0 6 Tariq Sullivan 2 1-2 5 Jaden Ratliff 2 0-0 5 Totals 23 6-12 […]
Girls Basketball: Wilson, Norwalk oust FCIAC rival Danbury in Class LL first round
NORWALK — Three straight FCIAC losses dashed Norwalk High’s hopes of a league championship this season.So the Bears might have been a little worried when they saw league rival Danbury as its Class LL first round state tournament matchup.Th…
Boys basketball: League tournament predictions, Day 4
SWC semifinal Kolbe Cathedral at Immaculate: Game will be closer than regular-season matchup but still the same end result. IMMACULATE NVL semifinals (at Wilby) Holy Cross vs. Waterbury Career: WCA keeps it close. HOLY CROSS Sacred Heart vs. Crosby. So does a hot Crosby team. SACRED HEART SCC semifinals (at Floyd Little Athletic Center, New […]
The GameTimeCT / Register Boys Basketball Top 10 poll: Hamden, Guilford move up ahead of SCC semifinal showdown
The postseason has begun, but the top four teams remain the same. And just like in previous weeks, the shakeups are minor. But the final two polls will probably have a little more with some of the teams guaranteed to lose this week and several more in determining the Division I state champion.
Boys basketball: 2018 state tournament outlook
The CIAC tournament pairings will be released on Wednesday, but let’s take a peek of what we could be looking at when the state tournaments begin next Monday. Division I Should be a similar feel to the Division I format that was used by the CIAC from 2004-06: second-round matchups that could be viewed as […]
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