Boys basketball: February 2008 Archives

This entire thing has:1) given me a giant headache; 2) made me feel very, very sad; 3) made me feel very, very disappointed. 4) All of the above.

In case you’re wondering why the Chicago Public League has 60 high schools and five of them are powerhouses in boys basketball, five are powerhouses in girls basketball, and the vast majority stink in both sports, wonder no longer.

Wednesday night, Zion-Benton High will play at North Chicago in the North Suburban Conference boys basketball championship game. Between Zion, Waukegan, North Chicago and Gurnee, there are at least 8,000 people who would pay the five bucks to watch that game in a gym that holds about 1,800.

Laugh if you will, but when the pairings were announced for the IHSA Class 4A Barrington Sectional, the decent team that seemed to have landed in a good spot was Waukegan. Here’s why:

Waukegan High’s entire boys basketball team scored 32 points in a game against an Evanston team that was there for the taking on Friday night. Heck, you’d think that Jereme Richmond would score 32 points a game by himself?

This is just one guess on how th IHSA will the 21 teams for the IHSA Class 4A Barrington Sectional.

When the seedings were announced for the IHSA Class 3A Anticoh Sectional boys basketball tournament, the smile on North Chicago coach “King” Coleman’s face had to be “King” size, so to speak.

The Stevenson Patriots, who routed Lake Forest by 25 points on Tuesday night in a game played IN Lake Forest.