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By MATT TRABOLD TRABS KEEPS TABS Big-time Players from Smaller Schools Hitting the Big Stage For the second year in a row, Section V boys basketball is returning to its once more annual format of every single sectional title game being played at Blue Cross Arena rather than one featuring a couple of the smaller classification championship contests being waged on … [Read more...] about Trabs Gabs: Big-time players from smaller schools on the big stage and semifinal battles

By MATT TRABOLD TRABS KEEPS TABS  Contrasting Styles Clashing in Many Sectional Pairings This Weekend One of the very best and fun parts of postseason sports matchups is that, much of the time, they can feature opposing teams that did not do battle in regular season play. Taking it one step further, in many cases, these playoff pairings for ballgames bring into play … [Read more...] about Trabs Gabs: Contrasting styles clashing in postseason play and a stout sectional weekend

By MATT TRABOLD TRABS KEEPS TABS  Seeding Point Scenarios on this Final Day of the Regular Season  As with essentially any legitimate sporting league as it comes down to the very end of play in the regular season, there are going to be a group of teams vying against each other for better postseason seeding spots on the very last day of competition of that regular … [Read more...] about Trabs Gabs: Final day seeding scenarios and the last day of this regular season

By MATT TRABOLD TRABS KEEPS TABS Late Season Means Revenge Season With the way schedules are structured for this sport in this section, there are many instances where teams play each other twice during the season. This current stage in the campaign, with roughly a week left in the regular season throughout the section, is experiencing a legitimate amount of rematches … [Read more...] about Trabs Gabs: Revenge season and final Friday of the regular season

Bishop Kearney's Michael Gentile has scored in double figures in each of the last five games. (Photo: SUE KANE) By MATT TRABOLD TRABS KEEPS TABS Cult Heroes to Watch for as the Postseason Approaches The aspect of the basketball world dealing with cult heroes is one of the major reasons the sport is great and thoroughly popular. Cult heroes may not be the top option … [Read more...] about Trabs Gabs: Cult heroes among local cagers