The start of the 2023-24 basketball season brings a slew of preseason tournament games for area high schools. Iola High’s Mustangs will hit the road to Richmond starting Monday for the Ike Cearfoss Basketball Tournament.…

Stetson Setter scored 17 points and Ethan Godderz nine as Crest High’s boys ended the War on 54 with a hard-fought win over Marmaton Valley. The Lancers withstood a Wildcat comeback attempt  to prevail, 36-34,…

Iola High’s basketball teams aren’t waiting around for school to resume before hitting the hardwood once again. The boys and girls Mustang squads travel to Fort Scott Tuesday to kick off the  post-Christmas portion of…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A top Tennessee House Republican lawmaker has apologized for losing his temper and being ejected from watching a high school basketball game after a confrontation with a referee. The dustup included…

TONKAWA, Okla. — Humboldt native Brad Witherspoon has been named the head men’s basketball coach at one of the premiere junior college basketball programs in the nation. Witherspoon, 35, will take the helm at Northern…

Several standouts on the basketball court have received postseason honors from the Three Rivers League. On the boys’ side, Crest’s Kobey Miller and Sean Hurst of Yates Center earned first team All-TRL honors, while Crest’s…

Five area high school girls earned postseason honors for their work on the basketball court this season. Crest High senior Aubree Holloran was joined by Marmaton Valley High’s Janae Granere and Yates Center’s Morgan Collins…

OTTAWA — It was anything but easy, the most unusual of basketball seasons that came to an all-too-early conclusion Saturday for Iola High’s girls. The Fillies fell, 49-40, to Ottawa in the Class 4A Substate…

BUFFALO — A young and short-handed Marmaton Valley High squad has taken its lumps on the basketball court this season. The Wildcats saw their season ended Friday at the Class 1A-II Substate Quarterfinals, falling 75-31…

By all accounts, Wednesday’s makeup game between Iola High’s Fillies and visiting Osawatomie meant nothing in the big picture. Both teams are locked into their upcoming substate matchups, and with the postseason just days away…