A bad night for @Samad_Hines as the two Chicago Suburb schools Glenbard West and Glenbrook South he has never heard of showed who were the best two teams in Illinois as they take down Simeon and Young. This is a reminder you don’t have to fly all over the country to be great.
Congratulations to @rayballin3 Ray’Sean Taylor. The history of Collinsville High School Basketball is a very long one. To have the most points ever is a tremendous accomplishment
Tonight what I saw at Collinsville High School was a true definition of a team. I have never seen five guys execute as well as those five kids did tonight. Not all of them stuff the stat sheet but they don’t win without each one doing his job. Couldn’t be more proud of that team
With six weeks until the IHSA Basketball Playoffs begin here is a map of all the Regionals, Sectionals and Super Sectionals in the state, color coordinated by class.
Homewood-Flossmoor
Martin Luther King Day of Basketball Activities
St. Louis (MO) (Vashon) Wolverines (12-1) vs Class 3A # 1 Chicago (DePaul Prep) Rams (18-1)
Number 1 in Missouri against Number 1 in Illinois coming up next.
Illinois rankings by @NestoHoops
Game 299 of the year and last game of the season in Illinois is the IHSA Class 4A State Championship Game. Chicago (Whitney Young) takes on Glen Ellyn (Glenbard West). It’s been a wonderful year of basketball in Illinois this season. Can the mythical 300 games in a season occur
Game 175
Highland Shootout - Game of the Day
Class 3A # 4 Metamora (13-3) vs Class 3A #3 Harvey (Thornton) (12-2)
The game features the #1 2024 Player Morez Johnson of Thornton vs 2024 #3 Cooper Koch of Metamora
Rankings by @NestoHoops
Player rankings by @chilandprephoop
Collinsville wins the Belleville (East) tournament 77 to 57 over St. Louis (MO) Trinity). @rayballin3 breaks the tournament scoring record along with the Collinsville High School record with 53 points tonight. I see a lot of basketball games and this was the best preformance ever
Final
DePaul Prep 68
Kaneland 28
This was an epic beat down as DePaul dominated from the opening tip. I haven’t seen a beat down this bad a since the IHSA gave Craig Anderson the smack down last week when he correctly tried to remove Kaneland from the playoffs.
@NestoHoops
Congrats to Ray’Sean Taylor with 22 points tonight and now 696 on the season. he passes Bogie Redmond for most points ever in a Junior Season at Collinsville. This record stood for 59 years.