Eleven teams from the Altoona Mirror’s core coverage area qualified for the PIAA basketball tournament, which begins Friday with first-round games. Four of those teams will play that night and seven more will open their state playoff runs on Saturday afternoon.

Kyle Boone delivers a strong swansong in his final CBS Sports Power Rankings, breaking down which teams are most likely to cut down the nets at the end of March Madness

Area Class A and B boys basketball teams set to open their quests for qualify for state tourneys March 19-21 in Rapid City and Aberdeen.

Lackawanna League boys basketball teams stormed into Mohegan Arena this weekend and returned home with wheelbarrows full of gold medals. Three teams from Division I and two from Division II earned