Basketball

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...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Chaz Lanier of the University of Tennessee men's basketball team is the SEC Co-Player of the Week, as announced Monday afternoon by the league office. A fifth-year guard from Nashville, Tenn., Lanier shared the distinction with Alabama's Mark Sears. This is the third...

ERWIN - Chuckey-Doak fought tooth-and-nail with a scrappy Hampton team, but ultimately came up just short in a 59-55 loss in Monday’s District 1-2A Championship Game at Unicoi County High School. After Hampton’s regular season sweep with an average winning margin of nine points...

BLOUNTVILLE – The North Greene girls could not keep up with a hot-shooting Unaka squad on Monday night and fell 45-39 in the District 1-1A championship game at West Ridge High School. The Lady Rangers knocked down 13 three-pointers on Monday with 39 of...

ERWIN - South Greene played a tightly contested first half, but figured out a way to pull away in the second half for a 64-42 win over Happy Valley in Monday night’s District 1-2A Third-Place Consolation Game. “I felt like they executed well and...

CHURCH HILL - The Greeneville Lady Greene Devils took down the Grainger Lady Grizzlies 64-40 in the District 2-3A championship game on Monday night at Volunteer High School. Both teams will be at home in the first round of the regional tournament on Friday. Greeneville...

BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Facing an early nine-point deficit in a top-10 showdown at a sold-out Reed Arena, the University of Tennessee men's basketball team clawed back to knock off seventh-ranked Texas A&M, 77-69, Saturday afternoon. Sixth-ranked Tennessee (22-5, 9-5 SEC) tied a program record...

NEWBERRY, S.C. --- Newberry College placed six players in double figures as the Wolves led wire-to-wire in an 86-62 over visiting Tusculum University Saturday afternoon at Eleazer Arena in South Atlantic Conference men's basketball action. Newberry (12-14, 9-13 SAC) shot 31-of-54 from the field (57%)...

NEWBERRY, S.C. --- Ni'Kiah Chesterfield scored a game-high 22 points as Tusculum University rolled to a 73-51 victory over Newberry College in South Atlantic Conference women's basketball Saturday afternoon at Eleazer Arena. Carleigh Wilson tied her career high with five three-pointers and scored 15 points, Abbi Douglas had 14...

BLOUNTVILLE - The North Greene’s boys basketball team made it back to the District 1-1A Championship game after a defensively dominant 55-21 win over Cloudland on Saturday afternoon at West Ridge High School. “That’s what we’ve got to do and that’s how we’ve got...