By GREG MENGELT We may be beating a dead horse at this point, but this hasn’t been the year Jeffersonville basketball expected. The defending sectional champion Red Devils were viewed as outside state championship contenders when the season began, but due to circumstances — many of them out of their control — they started the […]

By GREG MENGELT With just over a week to go in the regular season, it’s a packed schedule Tuesday night with several intriguing matchups. The Hoosier Hills Hoops Boys’ Game of the Night, for example, features two teams with state championship expectations. Host Floyd Central (16-2) is ranked sixth in the state, while the Braves […]

By GREG MENGELT There’s rarely a stretch of schedule that’s ever easy for New Albany, but the close of the 2021-22 regular season will be unique for Jim Shannon and the Bulldogs. New Albany (9-7) has six games in the next 15 days — all against teams that present different challenges. It’s starts this weekend […]

By GREG MENGELT West Washington and Rock Creek have been two of the best stories of the 2021-22 girls’ basketball season. Rock Creek, in its second year under former Miss Basketball Sara Nord, is 7-5 and passed last year’s win total of two on Nov. 18. West Washington, which went 8-15 in its first year […]

By GREG MENGELT West Washington senior guard Madison Brown had probably the best game of her career last Wednesday in a 56-15 victory over Cannelton. Brown had her first-ever double-double with 16 points and 13 rebounds. Seven of the rebounds came on the offensive glass. She also finished with 7 assists and 6 steals and […]

By GREG MENGELT Lane Hoefler had two huge performances with two career-high scoring nights and a career-best rebounding night in the Washington County Invitational. Hoefler finished the week with 59 points and 23 rebounds as the Senators finished third in the tournament. On Friday, he had 26 points and 9 rebounds in the Senators’ 73-57 […]