Andy’s Take

If we are talking about the most historic brands of boys’ basketball programs that happen to call the Lancaster-Lebanon League their home, there are plenty to rightfully consider. Sure, it’s hard to argue with the dominance shown over a prolonged period of time when you consider the likes of Lancaster Catholic, McCaskey and Hempfield to […]

Without a doubt, one of the most fun things to do at the end of the first week of a season to try and conjure up storylines and long-term projections based on how just a morsel of games have turned out thus far, all while being somewhat absent-minded perhaps to the fact that the lion’s […]

First off, is it okay to say this out loud? Is it okay to say that Thursday night’s Manheim Township and E-Town game was a bit of a “crossroads” type game? Granted, even though the 2022-23 campaign isn’t even a week-old yet, the initial premise of the original question may not be all that farfetched […]

The saying goes that you only have one chance to make a good first impression. Ironic is some ways though when you apply that same logic to the 2022-23 Cedar Crest Falcons that is. After all, chances are that you know most of their names and faces already as it is.  Last year, behind what […]

You know, whenever Central Dauphin and Manheim Township happen to find themselves locked up in competition no matter what the sport, chances are two-fold. First, there will be a lot of eyeballs on the matchup itself. Why? Most certainly because those two names alone carry nothing if not a ton of equity and weight behind […]

There’s something to be said about new beginnings. Whether it be in life or even in the world of high school basketball, sometimes change can be for the better. And what a better place to start than opening night of the gauntlet that is the regular season itself if we’re talking hoops. It’s not exactly […]

Ed note: Welcome to the 2021-22 All LLhoops.com teams. Between Dell and Andy, we saw each player at least once. We continue with our 6 player teams- more awards for more deserving players. Names appear in alphabetical order.  Enjoy!   Section One First Team Ethan Benne (Penn Manor) Sebastian Henson (Manheim Township) Fernando Marquez (Cedar Crest) […]

No matter how you may try and slice it, you’d be hard-pressed to argue that this most recent season of Lancaster-Lebanon League boys’ basketball was anything but a success story. Simply put, while the teams that reside in the L-L as a whole not only made a case for moving the conference upwards into the […]

Well, the three-day, hour-long drive that yours truly took from Denver to Hershey on Route 322 this past weekend has since come and gone. Candidly, it’s always a bittersweet moment to walk out of Giant Center late on a Saturday night (usually in gale force winds too for whatever the reason) in knowing and acknowledging […]

The following are simply cold-hard facts. The state of Pennsylvania ranks as the fifth-most populous state in all the Union. With such a distinction, it’s easy to reconcile that fact once you consider that the state is home to some roughly 13-million people and change. Not only that, but the state’s governing scholastic sports body, […]

  Remember the year 2020? Yeah, I know we all do in our own unique ways. Remember March 2020 more specifically? Certainly, right? After all, that’s right when everyone’s collective world turned completely upside down around the globe. Of course, if you’re more so of the PIAA boys’ basketball crowd specifically, you will probably remember […]

In a lot of ways, it’s one of the worst kept secrets known to man. Well, maybe not to ALL of mankind I suppose, but certainly for those who operate and reside within the high school basketball community that is. And of course, that “secret” being that the further and further you advance in the […]

Over the span of its entire history, the ELCO Raiders boys’ basketball team has made it to the PIAA state tournament two times. On Tuesday night, it that number would get bumped up to three once the group from Myerstown set sail for Cardinal O’Hara High School, just on the western outskirts of Philadelphia. However, […]

You know, it’s somewhat funny in a way. By most assumptions, by the time you reach the championship round of the District 3 playoffs that ultimately concludes at the Giant Center, there largely figures to be a few names that you can expect to find there waiting for your viewing pleasure, but particularly in the […]

Quick question here for the audience, but how many of you would like to pretend that the last couple of years, last year in particular, never took place at all? A fair amount? Yeah, kinda figured as much. Okay, but I see not everyone in the crowd has their hand raised here. Who’s that abstaining? […]