While the logic of it all may seem a little bit unconventional at least on the surface, sometimes the best medicine that a team can find for itself is getting firmly pushed up against the metaphorical ropes while tasked with having only two options– to either sink or swim. And if ever there was a […]

There’s no denying it. There is just something intrinsically special about the state basketball tournament. After all, while the Twitter debates, looking at unscientific polls and everything of the like are fun in the interim, having the opportunity to settle the score as for who and what pockets of the commonwealth are truly the best […]

Ed note: The first round of the PIAA tournament starts this Friday March 10th. Here are the LL teams that will be playing this weekend. LLhoops will have coverage of some of the games! By Dates: March 10, Friday 1A Lancaster Country Day 44 Chester Charter Academy 58 5A Warwick 59 Radnor 70 Mars 61 […]

When you reach this stage, that of course being the highest level of achievement as far as high school basketball inside the mid-state is concerned with the dandy dozen known as the District 3 championships, you typically would like if the occasion would be rather large and significant in stature. Shall we say historic even? […]

Full disclosure, but we must start this piece by laying out an inquiry that most in basketball circles would consider to be completely blasphemous given the months of hard work that each team puts in year-round to try and reach this particular summit. Even still, we must ask—Was it possible that Tuesday afternoon’s District 3-2A […]

When you reach this point of the season where the month of March is literally only a handful of hours away and the basketball postseason is only heating up with even more fervor, this is usually when Cinderella typically awakes from her slumber. Now sure, while underdogs with their can-do narratives typically end up stealing […]

If it’s true what they say that the truest mark of someone’s character is how they respond in the aftermath of adversity, you can best believe that the Hempfield Black Knights boys’ basketball team has done plenty of that and then some over the last few years. But also, it’s possible that two things can […]

Ed note: Manheim Central plays its games at Doe Run Elementary School. Seeding is the first number. All tip times at 7 pm with home games awarded to higher-seeded teams. 6A  First Round  Cedar Crest 40 Wilson 48 Central York  58  Hempfield 61 5A First Round Donegal 36 Warwick 62  Hershey 35 Lampeter-Strasburg 26  Muhlenberg […]

Before we begin, is there a word for déjà vu that doesn’t exactly come to completion? Say, kinda vu? Either way, that likely had to be the feeling that the Warwick Warriors possessed when they loaded up the bus in Lititz on Thursday afternoon before coming across the Susquehanna to meet up with the Mechanicsburg […]

There are some out there who will say that the postseason is in theory a “second season.” Or, more succinctly put, a second chance to try and make amends for previous shortcomings that occurred earlier during the season. And man alive, did Cedar Crest’s trip over to Wilson on Tuesday night fit ever that description […]

When we make comments that usually are along the lines of “The future of Lancaster-Lebanon League boys’ basketball is incredibly bright,” yes, while we may indirectly be talking about the players inside of the conference most specifically, it’d be extremely foolish to overlook the work of the many young coaches that the league can also […]

In order to accurately move forward in helping to better tell this story, we must first go back. Like two years’ worth of going back that is. Sure, while seeing the Hempfield Black Knights emerge to the surface of the eventual Lancaster-Lebanon League title game isn’t necessarily a new phenomenon by any stretch of the […]

If the old adage is that you want to be playing your best ball of the season at the most critical juncture, you can best believe that the two teams who made up the finale of the twin-bill of league semifinal contests at Conestoga Valley on Wednesday happened to fit that description to a T. […]

For all the unique and just overall special things that helps set the Lancaster-Lebanon League tournament apart from its other competitors found within District 3, matchups like this are the reason why. You see, having a Section One team saunter into the home gym of a Section Four team isn’t a scene you’d likely see […]

For years, this was a series that had laid dormant. As hard as it may be to believe to those on the outside, especially given how the two districts share a border with one another, but Manheim Central and Warwick never really interacted with one another on the hardwood come the winter months. Sure, while […]