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Boys basketball: Largo tops Wharton 65-59 in MacCollum Shootout
SEMINOLE — Largo coach Phil Price had been waiting for this moment, when his football players would be in basketball mode, when the errant shots would start falling, when his young team would put it together for a signature win against a premier Tampa Bay area power.He got it Saturday ...
Read moreSat. Jan. 19, 2013 at 8:40 p.m. | Bob Putnam
Basketball: Hillsborough girls & boys super 7
Records through Wednesday’s games Girls 1. Freedom (18-2): Sophomore guard Taylor Emery (21.4 points) is expected to return Friday against Steinbrenner after suffering a concussion Jan. 5. A win clinches the district title. 2. Seffner Christian (19-2): Crusaders cruised to a lopsided victory over then-undefeated Academy at the Lakes, and ...
Read moreThu. Jan. 17, 2013 at 5:04 p.m. | Times Staff
Basketball: Hillsborough girls and boys super 7
Records through Wednesday Girls 1. Freedom (16-2): Patriots acquitted themselves well in a pair of holiday tournaments, advancing to the finals of the Queen of Palms Invitational in Fort Myers. Still undefeated against local foes. 2. Seffner Christian (16-2): Rebounded from first two losses of the season with a 60-2 ...
Read moreThu. Jan. 10, 2013 at 12:41 p.m. | Times Staff
Basketball: Hillsborough boys & girls super 7
Records through Wednesday Boys 1. Jesuit (7-0): Unchallenged Tigers winning by average margin of 34.4 points 2. Tampa Prep (8-0): Six-foot-9 frosh Juwan Durham averaging nearly double double (17.4 ppg, 9.4 rpg) 3. Wharton (7-0): Best Wildcats team since Butler alum Shawn Vanzant’s senior year (2006-07) 4. Berkeley Prep (9-0): ...
Read moreThu. Dec. 13, 2012 at 11:48 a.m. | Times Staff
Boys hoops: 'Cats run past Chiefs, 80-63 (with video)
TAMPA -- From the stuffiness to the soft spots on the floor to the somber lighting, Chamberlain's antiquated gym had a Boston Garden feel to it Monday night. Fittingly, Wharton (6-0) and Chamberlain (5-1) engaged in some Garden-variety physicality. "It was unbelievably physical, intense," Wildcats coach Tommy Tonelli said. Limiting ...
Read moreMon. Dec. 10, 2012 at 10:06 p.m. | Joey Knight
Morning Meanderings: Good morning, Anton Crutcher, and your Dunk of the Night
What's hoopening, people? Get it, happening, hoopening? Yessir, the kind of brilliance you can only find here at Morning Meanderings, where coffee and a cranberry Christmas bagel fuel the machine. You know the drill: johncotey@gmail.com, and follow me at @JohnnyHomeTeam Here's some notes, observations and a look at Friday's slate ...
Read moreThu. Dec. 06, 2012 at 10:52 a.m. | John C. Cotey
Morning Meanderings: Good morning Bailey Hooker and Faith Woodard, and we have video!
It was Milestone Monday in girls hoops last night, and here's your boys basketball nursing rhyme of the day: Jack and Bill went up against Marcus Hill, to fetch a possible victory. But Jack fell down when he got dunked on, and Bill came tumbling after. Keep reading. It will ...
Read moreTue. Dec. 04, 2012 at 10:53 a.m. | John C. Cotey
Hillsborough boys hoops preview
The final four Hillsborough County’s preseason top four, listed with 2011-12 record 1. Jesuit (27-2): Four starters return from veteran coach Neal Goldman’s best team, which finished a game shy of the program’s first final four berth since 1984. If there’s a deficiency on this roster, we haven’t seen it. ...
Read moreWed. Nov. 21, 2012 at 10:15 a.m. | Joey Knight
Boys basketball: Mood is right as Jesuit rolls
TAMPA — Prep basketball’s opening night at Jesuit wasn’t without its glitches. The shooters were tight, the fouls plenteous and the passes periodically awry at the Tiger Palace. But the audience was in February form. Arguably the most hyped Jesuit basketball season in a quarter-century dawned before an estimated crowd ...
Read moreTue. Nov. 20, 2012 at 10:49 p.m. | Joey Knight
Ex-Wharton star Holston now at Oldsmar
Former Wharton shooting guard Troy Holston, the Wildcats' No. 2 scorer last season, has transferred to Oldsmar Christian, his mother confirmed to the Times. Oldsmar will be Holston's third school in as many seasons. A 6-foot-4 rising senior, he averaged 16.1 points (a team-best) and 3.4 rebounds at Freedom two seasons ago. ...
Read moreTue. Aug. 07, 2012 at 11:38 a.m. | Times Staff
Times' all-Suncoast boys basketball
Player of the year: C Tyler Bergantino, Sr., Nature Coast Tyler Bergantino’s love of superheroes shouldn’t surprise anyone who watched him rescue Nature Coast this season. If any teammate let an opponent drive past him, Bergantino was there waiting, ready to swat the shot away and save a basket. “He ...
Read moreSat. April 07, 2012 at 10:16 a.m. | Times Staff
Times' all-Hillsborough County boys and girls basketball teams
Boys Player of the year: Devontae Morgan, Sr., Tampa Prep Why we chose him: The leading scorer (15.4 ppg) and No. 2 rebounder (5.9 rpg) for the Terrapins’ state championship team, Morgan’s contributions are impossible to quantify solely on a stat sheet. The defensive catalyst on a squad that surrendered ...
Read moreSat. March 31, 2012 at 2:45 p.m. | Times Staff
'Cats' Litton reinstated, dad says
The suspension of Wharton two-sport sophomore Chase Litton from extra-curricular activities at his school has been lifted, his father confirmed to the Times on Monday. Litton, the Wildcats' 6-foot-6 quarterback and low-post starter on the basketball team, had been suspended two weeks ago following his Feb. 8 arrest with football ...
Read moreMon. Feb. 27, 2012 at 7:24 p.m. | Joey Knight
Length of Litton suspension indefinite, dad says (UPDATED 4:35 P.M.)
The father of Wharton sophomore two-sport standout Chase Litton said Friday his son remains suspended indefinitely from all extra-curricular activities at the school. In a phone interview with the Tampa Bay Times, Jeff Litton said he received an e-mail earlier this week from Wharton principal Brad Woods indicating the 6-foot-6 ...
Read moreFri. Feb. 17, 2012 at 4:35 p.m. | Joey Knight
Region boys basketball: East Lake stuns Wharton as last-second shot doesn't fall
NEW TAMPA — The final seconds of East Lake’s quarter-century wait for a playoff victory may have been the most excruciating. The biggest win in Eagles history wasn’t secured until Wharton forward Patrik Hauri’s last-gasp putback attempt rolled on the front of the rim before sliding off, securing a stunning ...
Read moreThu. Feb. 16, 2012 at 10:57 p.m. | Joey Knight