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Beginning this weekend, the Lancaster-Lebanon League will send five of its boys’ basketball teams found within three of the state’s six classification systems into the state tournament that will get underway on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon respectively. With just five schools receiving a bid, that ties 2025, 2020, and 2015 for being the fewest […]

updated 2/28   2025-2026 PIAA FIRST ROUND BOYS MATCHUPS “hosts” means a home court game (or within District 2) “visits” means opponent’s home court (or in their district)     Boys AAAAAA PIAA First Round District 2 Champion hosts District 1, #7 Team 3-Delaware Valley (17-8) vs. 6-Abington (19-9)   District 2 Runner-up visits District 11 Runner-up 1-Wilkes-Barre […]

Here is the assorted photo gallery documenting the 2026 L-L Boys’ Championship Game as taken by Mark Palczewski (MarkP22). Photos copyright of LLHoops and Mark22. For purchase inquiries, please reach Mark at his website, Mark22.com, or email, palmark@aol.com  

  January 24, 2026   Panthers Defeat Knights in Non-League Tilt   Pocono Mountain West 73, Scranton 57   SCRANTON – LLhoops dropped by Scranton high school for a late Saturday afternoon matchup between the Knights and Pocono Mountain West, one of the premier big school programs from District 11.  The Panthers annually schedule a […]

  DISTRICT 2 BOYS TOP 10   (games through 1/24/26) 1.  Dunmore (15-1) 3A 2.  Riverside (15-1) 3A 3.  Dallas (16-3) 4A 4.  Abington Heights (11-5) 5A 5.  Scranton Prep (12-3) 4A  6.  Valley View (14-2) 4A 7.  Old Forge (11-4) 2A 8.  Wyoming Area (16-1) 4A  9.  Elk Lake (16-1) 3A 10. Wilkes-Barre Area […]

LLHoops was informed this morning that the entire Manheim Central Hoopfest has been postponed today due to weather conditions. We will provide a later update in the event that any of the day’s original matchups will be played at a future date with our livestream coverage to perhaps be provided as well.    Regardless of […]

  DISTRICT 2 BOYS TOP 10   (games through 1/10/26)   1.  Scranton Prep (8-2) 4A  2.  Dunmore (11-1) 3A 3.  Riverside (11-1) 3A 4.  Valley View (10-1) 4A 5.  Old Forge (9-2) 2A 6.  Dallas (11-3) 4A 7.  Abington Heights (7-5) 5A 8.  Wyoming Area (11-1) 4A  9.  Crestwood (11-3) 5A 10. Wilkes-Barre Area […]

  DISTRICT 2 BOYS (NON-HOLIDAY TOURNEY) RESULTS   Last Week’s Results (link) Holiday Tournament Results (link)   MONDAY, 12/22 Scranton Prep 52, Bethlehem Liberty 41 Abington Heights 53, Pocono Mountain West 59 Crestwood 47, Scranton 56 Pittston Area 40, Valley View 60 Notre Dame East Stroudsbur 39, Delaware Valley 72 Nazareth 59, Wallenpaupack 25 Hanover […]

This past week saw the start of section play officially commence around the Lancaster-Lebanon League. Typically, that would be the most newsworthy tidbit that the week would usually offer. However, especially at the tail end of the week in particular, the L-L was fortunate enough to see some key milestones be reached from both those […]

On Sunday, L-L basketball teams from all around the league descended upon Lancaster city, Penn Medicine Park specifically, home of the Lancaster Stormers, for the third straight iteration of annual Media Day festivities. We sincerely thank LNP and the Stormers for their hospitality and logistics coordination in making this year’s event fun and run smoothly […]

(Cover photo provided by the Salisbery family)   They’re breaking out the time machine at McCaskey. For just the 4th time since the inception of the L-L League (1972), and for the 13th time in the last 100 years overall, the McCaskey boys’ basketball program will have a new head man in charge once this […]

Spooky Nook will once again be playing host to a Wednesday night fall varsity league for many local teams. Listed below are the dates, times, teams, and locations for those clubs competing this year. L-L teams listed in bold.    Wednesday October 8th Dallastown vs Manheim Central- 6:30pm (Court 1) Bishop McDevitt vs Manheim Township– […]

Much like the cover photo used for this post, the sun has now also set on Spooky Nook’s 2025 edition of their summer league slate. Additionally, this notebook figures to be a bit more abridged considering how the back half of the month is typically when teams in the league begin to pull the string […]

As part of our summer coverage, LLHoops will post semi-weekly updates regarding things we have seen while over at Spooky Nook observing their annual summer league. With the June-only league now sitting squarely on its halfway point, it seemed like as good a time as any to release the first report of our findings. And […]

Listed below are the teams — and schedules — of Lancaster-Lebanon League boys’ teams that are participating at the “Philly Live” showcase event which begins on June 20th and runs thru that weekend. Games to take place at Jefferson University and the Allen Horwitz 6th Man Center in Philadelphia.    McCaskey  McCaskey vs Sankofa Freedom […]