IHSA Basketball Tournament

[Dmills]

Tournament starts next week. ISU is hosting a 1A and 4A super-sectional on March 4th.

The 4A game could include the following teams/recruits:
2024 Braylon Roman (Normal Community)
2024 Noah Cleveland (Normal Community)
2025 Nick Allen (Bradley-Bourbonnais)
2025 Bradley Longcor III (Quincy)

Currently do not have any offers out to Benet Academy, Bolingbrook, Downers Grove North, or Waubonsie Valley. Would be a great opportunity to scout though. The State Finals will unfortunately coincide with our MVC Championship run

 

[MadBird]

Tournament starts next week. ISU is hosting a 1A and 4A super-sectional on March 4th.

The 4A game could include the following teams/recruits:
2024 Braylon Roman (Normal Community)
2024 Noah Cleveland (Normal Community)
2025 Nick Allen (Bradley-Bourbonnais)

Currently do not have any offers out to Benet Academy, Bolingbrook, Downers Grove North, or Waubonsie Valley. Would be a great opportunity to scout though. The State Finals will unfortunately coincide with our MVC Championship run

Not directed at your post really, but I look forward so much to the IHSA tournament. Have lived in Wisconsin for 40 years, have printed or written out the IHSA brackets damn near every one of those years (a tradition I started at ISU when WJBC printed out a bracket), depending on the advances in technology, tracked the scores one way or the other, etc, So glad they went back to Assembly Hall for the finals, that's the way it should be. There's nothing like March Madness!! I graduated from Evergreen Park HS (we were never very good in hoops), this year we host a regional, and first game is vs. Morgan Park HS, where I went freshman year. Wish I could be there.

Saw a few dandy sectionals and super-sectionals in my days in Blo-No at Horton. Again, wish I could be there.

 

[Qcity]

Quincy is also in the Pekin sectional and has Bradley Longcor, a 2025 that has an ISU offer

Quincy and Normal Community would be a great Super sectional game

 

[Dmills]

Quincy is also in the Pekin sectional and has Bradley Longcor, a 2025 that has an ISU offer

Quincy and Normal Community would be a great Super sectional game

Good catch - for some reason I just assumed Quincy was 3A. Quincy and Normal Community would face off in the Pekin Sectional Championship. That would be fun.

 

[RedbirdSoxFan]

Quincy is also in the Pekin sectional and has Bradley Longcor, a 2025 that has an ISU offer

Quincy and Normal Community would be a great Super sectional game

I remember watching Kyle Cartmill (Quincy) in the super sectionals at Redbird Arena.

 

[isuquinndog]

Not directed at your post really, but I look forward so much to the IHSA tournament. Have lived in Wisconsin for 40 years, have printed or written out the IHSA brackets damn near every one of those years (a tradition I started at ISU when WJBC printed out a bracket), depending on the advances in technology, tracked the scores one way or the other, etc, So glad they went back to Assembly Hall for the finals, that's the way it should be. There's nothing like March Madness!! I graduated from Evergreen Park HS (we were never very good in hoops), this year we host a regional, and first game is vs. Morgan Park HS, where I went freshman year. Wish I could be there.

Saw a few dandy sectionals and super-sectionals in my days in Blo-No at Horton. Again, wish I could be there.

And see, I grew up watching it in Peoria. I went to a few of the Peoria Manual championship games. What an atmosphere. Also my high school took two trips to the state finals in Peoria and never in Champaign.

 

[ChiRedbirdfan]

Not directed at your post really, but I look forward so much to the IHSA tournament. Have lived in Wisconsin for 40 years, have printed or written out the IHSA brackets damn near every one of those years (a tradition I started at ISU when WJBC printed out a bracket), depending on the advances in technology, tracked the scores one way or the other, etc, So glad they went back to Assembly Hall for the finals, that's the way it should be. There's nothing like March Madness!! I graduated from Evergreen Park HS (we were never very good in hoops), this year we host a regional, and first game is vs. Morgan Park HS, where I went freshman year. Wish I could be there.

Saw a few dandy sectionals and super-sectionals in my days in Blo-No at Horton. Again, wish I could be there.

I too closely follow IHSA and especially March madness. Agree Assembly Hall is a more exciting local. I stopped going to finals once they moved to Peoria.

 

[Dmills]

Tournament starts next week. ISU is hosting a 1A and 4A super-sectional on March 4th.

The 4A game could include the following teams/recruits:
2024 Braylon Roman (Normal Community)
2024 Noah Cleveland (Normal Community)
2025 Nick Allen (Bradley-Bourbonnais)
2025 Bradley Longcor III (Quincy)

Currently do not have any offers out to Benet Academy, Bolingbrook, Downers Grove North, or Waubonsie Valley. Would be a great opportunity to scout though. The State Finals will unfortunately coincide with our MVC Championship run

Bradley-Bourbonnais was eliminated by Moline in the regional finals.

Normal Community and Quincy will face off in a huge Sectional Championship game this Friday in Pekin.

 

[WoodlandWarrior]

Peoria Richwoods beats Metamora for a sectional championship.

 

[Dmills]

Jaheem Webber with the dunk at the buzzer off the stolen inbounds pass to win it for Normal Community.

 

[Dmills]

1A Super-sectional at CEFCU: Heyworth vs Chicago Hope Academy - March 4th at 6 pm
4A Super-sectional at CEFCU: Normal Community vs Downers Grove North - March 4th at 7:30 pm

Normal Community with an opportunity to avenge the football team's state semifinals loss to DGN.

Players to watch:
2024 Jaheem Webber (NCHS) - Wright State
2024 Noah Cleveland (NCHS) - undecided
2024 Braylon Roman (NCHS) - undecided
2024 Niko Newsome (NCHS) - Saginaw Valley State
2025 Kobe Walker (NCHS) - undecided
2024 Dexter Niekamp (NCHS) - Illinois State (football)

2024 Jake Reimer (DGN) - undecided
2024 Jack Stanton (DGN) - Princeton
2024 Alex Miller (DGN) - undecided

Looking forward to the games. Will be my first high school game of the season.

 

[Dmills]

Normal Community smoked Downers Grove North (who had beaten them earlier in the year). They will play Palatine on Friday at state.

State Finals Matchups
1A (Thursday) -
Chicago Hope Academy vs Meridian
Aurora Christian vs Winchester

2A (Thursday) -
Williamsville vs Chicago Phillips
Byron vs Benton

3A (Friday) -
Mt. Carmel vs Mt. Zion
DePaul College Prep vs Peoria Richwoods

4A (Friday) -
Palatine vs Normal Community
Homewood-Flossmoor vs New Trier

Championship games are all on Saturday.

 

[MadBird]

Normal Community smoked Downers Grove North (who had beaten them earlier in the year). They will play Palatine on Friday at state.

State Finals Matchups
1A (Thursday) -
Chicago Hope Academy vs Meridian
Aurora Christian vs Winchester

2A (Thursday) -
Williamsville vs Chicago Phillips
Byron vs Benton

3A (Friday) -
Mt. Carmel vs Mt. Zion
DePaul College Prep vs Peoria Richwoods

4A (Friday) -
Palatine vs Normal Community
Homewood-Flossmoor vs New Trier

Championship games are all on Saturday.

Haven't paid attention - Beecher went down? I mean, I see they did. But, wow, Beecher went down!

 

[Dmills]

1A
Mounds Meridian and West Central will play for state.
Chicago Hope Academy beat Aurora Christian in the third place game.

2A
Benton and Chicago Phillips will play for state.
Byron beat Williamsville in the third place game.

 

[RedbirdSoxFan]

End of 3rd quarter:
NCHS 46
Palatine 30
Looks like Ironmen will play for 4A Championship tomorrow @ 7:30

 

[Bird Friend]

End of 3rd quarter:
NCHS 46
Palatine 30
Looks like Ironmen will play for 4A Championship tomorrow @ 7:30

58-38 final. Palatine had no answer for the Ironmen’s size. Webber was a beast inside 15/12 + 6 blocks. Roman had 19 points.

 

[Dmills]

Any word if members of the staff are in attendance today?

 

[isuquinndog]

I'm sure every knows by now that Normal fell short in the title game.

 

[RedbirdSoxFan]

I'm sure every knows by now that Normal fell short in the title game.

Not a good game for Webber. Had only 2 points
Roman 18 pts 7 rbs 3 asst
Cleveland 13 pts 11 reb

 

[Adunk33]

Not a good game for Webber. Had only 2 points Roman 18 pts 7 rbs 3 asst
Cleveland 13 pts 11 reb

They had a good game plan to shut down Jaheem. Packed it in with a Zone and said have your guards beat us. NCHS didn't shoot it well, thus the result. A lot like some this year's Redbird losses.