Basketball

The Greeneville boys basketball team cruised to a win over the Elizabethton cyclones, 81-59, in the Region 1-3A Tournament quarterfinals on Saturday night in Hal Henard Gymnasium. Greeneville advances to the Tournament semifinals on Tuesday where they will travel to Bristol to take on...

The South Greene boys didn’t play to their full potential, but still got the job done in a 64-54 win against Oneida on Saturday night to advance to the Region 1-2A semifinals. South Greene struggled to find their footing in the first half. They...

The Greeneville girls built a big lead early on Friday night and it was too much for Unicoi County to overcome as the Lady Greene Devils collected a 62-43 win in the Region 1-3A Tournament Quarterfinals. “It was a great start, but Unicoi made...

A red-hot start to the second half distanced Chuckey-Doak from Pigeon Forge and gave them the run they needed to claim a 56-37 win in Friday night’s Region 1-2A Tournament opener. The Lady Knights hosted a Region 1-2A quarterfinal game for the second time...

The North Greene Lady Huskies entered Friday night’s Region 1-1A quarterfinal matchup against Hancock County with confidence, having decisively defeated the Lady Indians during the regular season and once again they won convincingly, 66-23 in the elimination game. “We tried to explain to them...

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. --- The UVA Wise men's basketball team went on an 8-0 run in the third and final overtime period as the Highland Cavaliers defeated Tusculum University 121-115 Wednesday night at Pioneer Arena in a South Atlantic Conference thriller. UVA Wise (18-9, 15-8 SAC)...

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. --- Sable Burnside scored a South Atlantic Conference season-high 41 points to lead UVA Wise to an 88-73 win over Tusculum University in SAC women's basketball Wednesday night at Pioneer Arena. Burnside, who also had 10 rebounds and five steals, shot 17-for-28 from...

BATON ROUGE, La. – The University of Tennessee men's basketball team trailed for just 92 seconds in a 65-59 triumph Tuesday night at LSU. Senior guard Zakai Zeigler paced fifth-ranked Tennessee (23-5, 10-5 SEC) with a co-game-high 17 points in the win at the Pete Maravich Assembly...

BLOUNTVILLE - North Greene tightened up on defense and erased a nine-point, second-half deficit to defeat Unaka 44-39 to be crowned District 1-1A Champions for the second-consecutive season on Tuesday night at West Ridge High School. “I was proud of them for showing toughness...

CHURCH HILL - During the regular season the Greeneville boys basketball team proved to be the class of District 2-3A with no opponent able to stay with 24 points of them. That continued into the postseason and on Tuesday at Volunteer High School the Greene...