LINCOLN — Bancroft-Rosalie/Lyons-Decatur coach Cory Meyer was asked after Friday's semifinal victory — a laborious 59-51 overtime affair against Sutton — if that was a wake-up call for his team.
BOYS BASKETBALL
BOYS BASKETBALL
LINCOLN — Humphrey/Lindsay Holy Family got up off the canvass after Friday night’s gut-wrenching loss to finish the 2019-20 campaign with a win over North Platte St. Patrick’s 50-36 here in the Class D1 consolation game at Lincoln Northeast High School.
LINCOLN — A basketball game cannot be won when the ball doesn't go through the hoop, or at least not very often.
LINCOLN — When a team has never played inside a large facility such as Pinnacle Bank Arena, those teams typically struggle shooting the basketball.
LINCOLN — Lucas Vogt was Lucas Vogt.
LINCOLN — Humphrey St. Francis simply manhandled Mullen.
LINCOLN — Defending state champ and No. 2 seed Humphrey/Lindsay Holy Family chose the worst time to play its worst game of the season, falling to sixth-seeded Southern Valley 47-39 in the semifinals of the Class D1 state tournament at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
LINCOLN — It was an upset that, well, never felt like an upset at all.
LINCOLN — There's a common phrase out there that winning is a habit.
LINCOLN - Osmond came in to the Nebraska Class D 1 State Boys Basketball Championships with a lot of momentum, a one-loss record and the spirit to improve on last year’s runner-up finish in D2.
LINCOLN — A lane violation with 49 seconds to play erased a Carter Kingsbury free throw and Yutan used its good fortune to score on a buzzer-beater to force overtime, sink a free throw with 0.7 seconds left to force double overtime and convert its free throws down the stretch to defeat Ponca…
LINCOLN — When points are hard to come by, an early double-digit deficit is almost impossible to overcome.
LINCOLN — The start of its Class D1 quarterfinal was not exactly befitting that of a defending champion. But the finish — well, that was a different story.
LINCOLN - Mullen saw a 49-40 fourth-quarter lead slip away but held on in the final seconds to defeat O'Neill St.Mary's 51-49 in the opening round of the Class D2 state tournament at Lincoln Southeast.
LINCOLN — Laurel-Concord-Coleridge looked every bit the part of a team on a mission while making a dominating yet history-making statement.
Top-seeded Humphrey St. Francis struggled early but turned it on in the second half in defeating feisty eighth-seeded Randolph 57-46 in the opening round of the Class D2 state tournament at Lincoln Southeast.
LINCOLN — The Nebraska high school boys basketball tournament will be played this week, but without the general public allowed to attend.
It would be easy to say that it’s been a tough road back to Lincoln for the Randolph boys basketball team.
The Wayne Blue Devils will be heading to the Class C1 boys basketball state tournament Thursday in Lincoln for the first time since 2014.
LINCOLN — Every state basketball tournament plays out for everyone to see, but there are stories behind the scenes that can be as interesting and important as what’s taking place on the court.
LINCOLN — The story wasn't supposed to end this way for Osmond.
Not when Merrix Denn hit a falling-to-the-left 3-pointer for the lead at the end of the first quarter.
LINCOLN — Bancroft-Rosalie/Lyons-Decatur literally blocked Yutan's best chance at a miracle comeback.
LINCOLN — Although it wasn’t the game Ponca was accustomed to over the past couple of years, the Indians finished the 2018-19 season right with a 52-43 win Saturday morning over Centennial in the Class C2 consolation game at Lincoln Southeast High School.
LINCOLN — The fate of the Class D1 championship seemingly pinballed after Jacob Sjuts released a 3-point attempt in front of his team's bench early in the fourth quarter.
LINCOLN — North Bend Central couldn't get much momentum — let alone the lead — in the first three quarters of Saturday morning's Class C1 championship game against Auburn at Pinnacle Bank Arena here.
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