Basketball
Trib HSSN Top 20 Stories of 2020: Laurel Highlands wins long-awaited WPIAL title
December 26, 2020
The most unique year in our lifetime is coming to an end. With so many mass starts and stops, highs and lows, just about all walks of life were affected by the coronavirus in 2020.
NBA guard T.J. McConnell kicks off Trib HSSN Best of the Century podcast series
December 23, 2020
Through the end of 2020 and the start of 2021, the Rebel Yell podcast will feature chats with some of the top WPIAL athletes from the first 20 years of this century.
New A-K Valley basketball coaches go through obstacles of another shutdown
December 19, 2020
The first year at the head of a program can be tough for any new coach, but imagine taking over a program in the middle of a pandemic.
Trib HSSN Top 20 Stories of 2020: Butler boys basketball ends title drought
December 18, 2020
The most unique year in our lifetime is coming to an end. With so many mass starts and stops, highs and lows, just about all walks of life were affected by the coronavirus in 2020.
High school basketball teams appreciate, take lessons from pre-shutdown games
December 17, 2020
Last Friday, 71 WPIAL and City League boys and girls basketball teams kicked off their 2020-21 seasons in the shadow of a looming shutdown that will extend through the first couple of days of the New Year.
Trib 10: Newcomers dominate boys basketball power rankings
December 16, 2020
Welcome to another season of the weekly Trib HSSN power rankings.
Trib HSSN preseason state girls basketball rankings
December 15, 2020
The WPIAL has long been a hotbed for talent in girls basketball. The 2020 PIAA basketball playoffs back that up.
Trib HSSN preseason state boys basketball rankings
December 14, 2020
When Trib HSSN last ranked the top teams in Pennsylvania, most of the second-round games in the 2020 PIAA basketball playoffs had just been completed with the quarterfinals looming.
Thomas Jefferson, Baldwin, Brentwood girls basketball teams have playoff ambitions
December 13, 2020
Here’s a look at the high school girls basketball teams for the South Hills Record coverage area:
Brentwood, Thomas Jefferson, Baldwin boys basketball teams look to develop chemistry
Here’s a look at boys basketball teams in the South Hills Record coverage area:
New era for Pine-Richland boys basketball tips off with enthusiasm
Joe Petcash was riding in the car with his dad in mid-June when they got a call that would put into motion the next era of Pine-Richland’s basketball team.
Last season’s abrupt ending motivates North Allegheny girls basketball
After having its state title hopes dashed last season by the covid-19 pandemic, the North Allegheny girls basketball team isn’t worried about a couple of inconveniences.
WPIAL champion coach brings spark to North Allegheny boys basketball
Matt McDonough and Robby Jones knew there would be some wide eyes in the gym, so they offered words of advice to their North Allegheny teammates about new basketball coach Dan DeRose.
WPIAL teams in action Friday night savor the moment, worry about what’s next
December 12, 2020
In all of his years as the Mars boys basketball coach, Rob Carmody has never celebrated an undefeated season.
High school roundup for Dec. 11, 2020: OLSH boys top North Catholic in battle of WPIAL champs
December 11, 2020
With only a few hours to spare before a three-week, state-mandated sports shutdown, a pair of defending WPIAL champions managed to squeeze in one of the season’s most marquee boys basketball matchups.
Chartiers Valley girls keep winning streak alive with win over game Baldwin squad
Chartiers Valley waited exactly nine months to pick up their 59th consecutive victory toward breaking a state record winning streak.
Fox Chapel gets a win over Hampton before three-week shutdown
Before his team met Hampton on Friday for its only game in the next three weeks, Fox Chapel boys basketball coach Zach Skrinjar wrote a message on the whiteboard.
St. Joseph girls ‘all-in’ on playing opener, lose to Neshannock
St. Joseph girls basketball coach Dennis Jones said there was no question his team wanted to take the court Friday to open its season less than 24 hours after Gov. Tom Wolf announced high school sports would shut down for four weeks as part of covid-19 mitigation efforts.
PIAA doesn’t anticipate ‘pause’ becoming lengthy shutdown
PIAA executive director Bob Lombardi said he doesn’t believe this “pause” of interscholastic sports will drag on for months like the shutdown last spring.
Schedules altered as WPIAL high school basketball season tips off
Welcome to opening day of the 2020-21 winter sports season.
