Class 4A Southern Nevada high school basketball teams will face Northern teams for the state title after the classification was Southern-only the past two seasons.
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Coronado led early and rolled to a home win over Bishop Gorman at the Big City Showdown on Saturday. The Centennial girls also earned a big victory over Gorman.
The Class 4A state basketball tournament begins with the boys and girls semifinals Tuesday at Cox Pavilion. 5A begins Friday with semifinals at Cox Pavilion.
The Big City Showdown returns after a two-year absence with seven high school basketball games Saturday at Cox Pavilion, starting at 10 a.m.
Check out the scores and top performances from Tuesday’s high school basketball action.
Cimarron-Memorial junior guard Heaven Hill scored 19 points and added five rebounds and five steals in a 60-33 win over Bonanza last Friday.
Aaliyah Gayles was ranked eighth nationally by ESPN among 2022 recruits, but her basketball future was put in peril in April during a shooting at a North Las Vegas party.
Check out the top performances from Thursday’s high school basketball action.
The College of Southern Nevada will have basketball for the first time since 2002-03 and hopes to be successful despite setbacks caused by the pandemic.
Here is the 2019-20 Nevada Preps All-Southern Nevada girls basketball team.
Anthony Swift had 21 points and 10 rebounds to lead Desert Pines to its fifth straight region championship, 74-55 over Faith Lutheran.
Bishop Gorman scored 33 first-quarter points and beat Durango in coach Grant Rice’s 500th win at the school, for the Desert Region championship.
The Diamondbacks had a miserable second half and fell to Brea Olinda (California) 47-38 in the quarterfinals of the Tarkanian Classic’s Diamond Division at Orleans Arena.
Daejah Phillips poured in 21 points Thursday to lead Centennial’s girls basketball team to a 67-50 win over Sanford (Del.) in the Nike Tournament of Champions in Phoenix.