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Mesa CC, CAC pull down conference hoops honors
A couple of local basketball players decided to stay home after high school and lend their talents to Arizona colleges. And now it has paid off handsomely for each. And for their schools. And for their coaches. It’s called the ‘trickle-down’ effect. Olivia Major, a sophomore who arrived at Central Arizona College from Washington High [...] -
Cal gets first Pac-10 basketball title since 1960. But now what?
OK, the ‘Big Game’ is over. ASU fell a second time this season to Cal, this time in a 62-46 rout at Haas Pavilion. The Golden Bears locked up at least a share of the Pac-10 men’s basketball crown with the win Saturday – their first title in 50 years. But what happens now? The [...] -
Two high-profile careers end with 3A basketball finals
A couple of prominent names in high school basketball closed out careers this weekend. One left the court to move on to bigger challenges, the other wrapped up 41 years on the bench. The 3A state championships set the stage for the last game of Corey Hawkins’ prolific high school career. The senior, who set [...] -
Freshman leads NAU basketball to second-best game score
Amy Patton has been on the Northern Arizona campus less than a year, but already she is making her mark on the women’s basketball program. Just as she did in her first year playing for McClintock HS in Tempe. The 5’10″ guard scored 35 points in a shoot-out with Sacramento State, as the 202 combined [...] -
Something for everyone at 4A hoops championships
Revenge. Frustration. Prolific scoring. And one Cinderella. That’s the mix of great story lines we get with this year’s 4A state championship high school basketball games on tap for tomorrow. The REVENGE comes on the boys’ side, where second-ranked Sunnyslope HS in 4A-I gets a chance to even the score with No. 1 McClintock HS, [...] -
Xavier Prep’s Murphy is still ballin’, gets GCU scoring record
One thing about small schools with evolving sports programs… there are plenty of records to set in the early stages. Grand Canyon University in Phoenix is a small (25,000 enrollment), private college in Phoenix and, although it was founded in 1949, its sports programs have been really growing and evolving in recent years. A week [...] -
ASU deflates Wildcats’ hopes for another trip to the Big Dance
The hissing noise emanating from Tucson last night could be heard as far away as Casa Grande. It was the air being let out of the Wildcats’ basketball season following the 73-69 loss to arch-enemy ASU. This one really hurt because it meant so much more than a loss to a cross-state rival. A team, [...] -
Salt River girls took on all comers enroute to 1A hoops title
It’s not quite the story for another Hoosiers movie. But it’s a basketball story worth repeating, as the Salt River HS girls basketball team finished it’s long journey this year by capturing the 1A state championship. The Eagles beat Gila Bend HS, 66-51, even though Ashley Wirtzberger scored 28 points. Wirtzberger, Gila Bend’s senior guard [...] -
Antelopes short of 100 points, but coach hits career mark
Someone should have run up to Trent May and put a lei of flowers around his neck. After all, it was Hawaii – and it was time to celebrate. But the game against Charminade meant more than a huge win in which his Grand Canyon University women’s basketball team scored 98 points. To get there, [...] -
Portland State hangs around until NAU finds a way to win
Portland State made a another visit to the Walkup Skydome in Flagstaff and, once again, were in no hurry to leave. In the last two games between the Vikings and Northern Arizona University, there were six overtime periods. Last year, the game was also in Flag and went into four overtimes before Portland State pulled [...]
