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Nickerson’s Quintin Crandall felt right at home at the charity stripe. Crandall converted 17 of 19 free throws to spark Nickerson’s 59-50 basketball upset of Central Kansas League co-leader Halstead. “I take two dribbles and focus on...

After weeks of talking heads prognosticating, millions of tweets, countless blog entries and rampant general speculation about a secret kept better than who shot J.R. on the TV show Dallas, Hutchinson Community College All-American Cordarrelle Patterson...

Girls around the state get back to the regular season after a busy weekend of tournament action.  See how your team did on the final day of January in the Girls Basketball Catch-All. AVCTL Div. II Valley Center cruised over Eisenhower, with three...

Hutchinson Trinity felt it needed to slow down Remington’s Mandy McNeill and her 3-point shooting if it was going to knock off the Broncos and win the Sedgwick Invitational Girls Basketball Tournament. The Celtics did what they wanted to do...

The seniors on the Andale boys basketball team entered this season’s Adolph Rupp Invitational Basketball Tournament having never won a first-round game. They focused on starting the 2012 tournament with a victory and then just seeing what happens...

Victories have eluded the Kingman Eagles this season. That trend continued Wednesday in the opening round of the Roadrunner Classic at Chaparral in a 56-47 loss to top seed Clearwater. The good news for Kingman is that the Eagles seem to have found some...

New Miami Dolphins head coach Joe Philbin's success will rise and fall with the quality of his assistants. So, like most coaches, Philbin has reached into his past and surrounded himself with coaches he knows and trust, such as Mike Sherman, who hired...

The CPL will once again feature several state contenders in the 2011-12 basketball season. Those campaigns got underway last week. Central Plains The Lady Oilers, the combined squad of former perennial powers Claflin and Quivira Heights won their...

The Mount St. Joseph basketball team has a number of constants to fall back on when its offense is out of sorts. The No. 2 Gaels rebound well, hit most of their free throws and make opponents work hard for their points. Sluggish on offense in the...

The Independent Panthers boys basketball team completed a three-game winning streak when the Panthers defeated the Belle Plaine Dragons last Tuesday, bringing their record to 3-2. The Panthers won 59-31. Seniors Eddie Fahnestock and Matt Kaufman led the...

Preview capsules for area boys basketball teams which responded to The Courant's request for information: CCC BERLIN Last year: 19-6 Coach: Mike Veneziano Top players: Tom Undercuffler, sr. forward, Bobby Mozzicato, sr. forward; Jeremy Desimone, sr....

Area high school boys basketball preview capsules of teams which responded to The Courant's request for information: CCC BERLIN Last year: 19-6 Coach: Mike Veneziano Top players: Tom Undercuffler, sr. forward, Bobby Mozzicato, sr. forward; Jeremy...