Andy’s Take

This time of year, all one needs to do is to take a step outside and feel just how cold and unforgiving the winter season can be at times. In some ways, while not necessarily a direct line of comparison you’d always think, so too can this time of year be just as harsh and […]

For anyone tasked with the assignment of trying to make prognostications as for how this year of Lancaster-Lebanon League boys’ basketball year ultimately figured to take shape and who the favorites might be prior to the start of the season, it would be a bit of an unenviable task quite frankly. Section One? Good luck […]

  Without taking the time to sit down and compile the math behind it all, let’s just cut to the chase and say that there are a litany of games played every year inside the Lancaster-Lebanon League boys’ basketball scene. When you consider that the conference contains 25 programs who can play up to 22 […]

If you find yourself playing in what most would coin to be a “big game” when the calendar reflects that its only December 17th, chances are that expectations are high for you and your team. On Tuesday night up in Fredericksburg, that was indeed the subplot that surrounded this Lancaster-Lebanon League Section Four affair. For […]

Is it feasible to call a team that made it to the state playoffs in the 5A ranks a season ago a bit of a surprise just a couple of weeks into this brand-new season? Especially when they graduated all of four players off said team? If so, this 2024-25 Manheim Central Barons outfit might […]

It happens every year. Without fail, there will always be a storyline that emerges from the first few weeks of the high school basketball season come each December. Sure enough, 2024-25 would be no such exception to this virtual rule of law. By now, it’s been well documented about how the Lebanon Cedars have been […]

(Josiah Hayes- LLHoops Player of the Game in ELCO win over Donegal)   The calendar tells us it’s December 13th. Maybe it’s still a little early to go and start throwing around the hyperbolic language, especially considering how divisional play hasn’t even started in some instances. Then again, it’s probably just a matter of who […]

Coming into the year, we knew it would be this way. We knew that the version of the Columbia Crimson Tide boys’ basketball team that last played in the state tournament against Math, Civics, and Sciences at Norristown High back in March wouldn’t resemble anything like the 2024-25 edition of the Tide. For starters, well, […]

In years previous, it’d be fair to say that the Manheim Township Blue Streaks boys’ basketball program was rather aggressive shall we say in their schedule-making. To be sure, seeing Township play game after game, day after day, to begin the regular season slate almost seemed to be an expected norm of sorts. This year […]

At this time a year ago, things couldn’t have been going much better for the Pequea Valley boys’ basketball program. After just the first full weekend of the season last year, the Braves wasted next to no time asserting themselves and injecting themselves into the conversation of feel-good stories by going to Tulpehocken in back-to-back […]

(Matt Knight. LLHoops POG In Twin Valley Win Over Northern Lebanon)   If you’ve been following along with the litany of preseason prognostications that have surrounded the start of the 2024-25 Lancaster-Lebanon League boys’ basketball season, there isn’t really a reason to be shy nor bullish on the prospects that make up the cast of […]

There are reasons for optimism around these parts this winter. And for good reason too. This season, it’d be more than fair to say that for the first time in a few handful of years, there are expectations being asked and laid at the feet of the Ephrata Mounts boys’ basketball team heading into the […]

Truthfully, you can’t really make this claim considering how early in the season it still is –especially being a game played on December 4th much less. But in some ways, Cocalico’s Wednesday night tilt at home this week against Governor Mifflin was a bit of a litmus test as to how the remainder of the […]

If you hadn’t already noticed, but it’s now the first few days of December, and we’re suddenly back to playing real basketball games with results that will have very real ramifications over the course of the next few months. Yes, it’s a bit of an oddity in fact considering how the season –usually—wouldn’t get started […]

As cliche as it may be, everyone is obviously giddy this time of year in the high school basketball world. And how could they not be considering hope springs eternal for everyone on the very first weekend of the season? Even still, there might be a few teams who eagerly await the start of a […]