Posted Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
CHICAGO (March 17, 2011) — In its 26th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with ESPN RISE, announced the 50 state by state winners of their Gatorade Boys Basketball Player of the Year. In New England the awards went to St. Thomas More’s Andre Drummond in Connecticut, Camden Hills’ Tyler McFarland in Maine, St. John’s Prep’s Pat Connaughton in Massachusetts, Bishop Guertin’s Connor Green in New Hampshire, St. Andrew’s Michael Carter-Williams in…
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Posted Monday, March 21st, 2011
It was a big weekend for Samir McDaniels as the New Mission senior led his team to their second consecutive state championship on Saturday, knocking off Northbridge 67-57. Less than 24 hours later and McDaniels was back on the court, this time as an all-star at the BasketBull New England All-Star Challenge where he scored a team high 24 points for the North squad. What few people realized, was that McDaniels had put an end to his recruitment to start…
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Posted Sunday, March 20th, 2011
Nemanja Djurisic, a 6-foot-8 power forward from the South Kent School in Conn., made a verbal commitment to Georgia on Sunday. Djurisic was one of the top big men left available on the East Coast and had seen considerably increasing high-major recruitment throughout his final season. However, things started to get complicated in recent weeks as the coaching carousel at Utah and N.C. State had a big impact on his decision making process. In addition to Georgia, Utah and N.C.…
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Posted Sunday, March 20th, 2011
The Massachusetts and New Hampshire High School Basketball Report held their second annual all-star game on Sunday night, playing host to the top freshmen, sophomores, and juniors from the two states. Here’s a look at who stood out during the action: Juniors – Top Prospects Akosa Maduegbunam, Charlestown – His jumper has become a weapon as Maduegbunam shoots a soft ball with great backspin from deep range, but don’t sleep on his athleticism or he’ll rise up to throw down…
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Posted Sunday, March 20th, 2011
BasketBull’s annual All-Star Challenge moved from Springfield to Newton this year to combine with the “Fitzy Games”, co-chaired by BABC founder Leo Papile. The Paul Fitzpatrick-Knobby Nolan Memorial Games were started to establish a foundation to send girls and boys to basketball camps in Fitzy and Knobby’s names. As part of the day’s festivities three different all-stars games beginning with BABC taking on a team of Connecticut underclassmen and followed by graduating seniors from New England public schools and then…
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Posted Sunday, March 20th, 2011
Division I Belongs to Bishop Guertin Bishop Guertin captured their first state championship in 28 years and it was only appropriate that the senior duo of Connor Green and Sean McClung finished with identical 22 point performances. Green finished the game with 22 points and 11 rebounds while McClung had 22 points along with seven rebounds and five steals as Bishop Guertin defeated Trinity 54-46. Trinity’s Mabor Gabriel was the story in the first half, scoring 13 of his 15…
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Posted Sunday, March 20th, 2011
One day after the Hoop Mountain Spring Classic, the Hoop Group came up to New England to run a showcase of their own at Gordon College, inviting several division II and III schools to witness some of the very solid players in the gym. To start the event, players were put through a workout series that included ball handling drills, transition drills, and an L cut/V cut individual offense series. Players then played in two games, and were offered a…
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Posted Saturday, March 19th, 2011
From the very first day of the pre-season St. John’s Prep and New Mission were anointed as the overwhelming favorites in the MIAA. That prediction came to pass on Saturday at the DCU Center as both programs captured state championships. Whitinsville Christian Takes D3 Whitinsville Christian made big free-throws down the stretch and came away with a state title, ending Watertown’s latest run 42-36. Hans Miersma led the way for Whitinsville with a double-double of 12 points and 14 rebounds…
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Posted Saturday, March 19th, 2011
Division I: Rice 55 Rutland 48 In front of a raucous crowd at the University of Vermont’s Patrick Gymnasium, second-seeded Rice would use a trio of huge, fourth-quarter threes from Casey Tipson and Jake Maynard to erase a five-point deficit and hang on to defeat top-seed Rutland, 55-48, for its 12th state title in school history and third crown in the past five years under head coach Paul Pecor. Senior guards Austin Robinson and Christian McCormick led Rice (22-2) with…
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Posted Saturday, March 19th, 2011
The CIAC basketball finals returned to Mohegan Sun Resort and Casino this weekend where all eight championships (four boys and four girls) were crowned on Friday and Saturday. Valley Takes First Title in Class S Valley Regional advanced to the first state final in school history and made the most of the opportunity, blowing out third seeded Classical Magnet 70-46. Taylor Rioux led the way with 18 points and 10 boards, collecting the 1000th rebound of his career in the…
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