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.

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.