Basketball

Thursday night the Hawthorne Hornet’s boy’s basketball team traveled to Newberry and faced the Panthers. Prior to tipoff, Newberry coach Edwin Johnson said he knows Hawthorne has a good team.  “Hawthorne is extremely talented and Coach Bowie has done a great job over there,” he said. Hawthorne entered the matchup …

The Bradford Tornadoes boy’s basketball team continued their push toward the 5A District 4 Tournament with a big win at home against their rival Keystone Heights Indians by a score of 70 to 39. The game had two distinctively different halves, with the first half ending with a score of 27-23 …

Miguel Yepez is a junior at the Saint Francis Catholic Academy and he’s part of the varsity basketball team for the Wolves. With an average of 14 points per game and a free throw percentage accuracy of 76%, Miguel has shown nothing but an excellent performance on the court. On …

The Florida Gators women’s basketball team has not fared well in SEC play so far this year. UF is just 1-6 in conference games, with two of those losses (South Carolina and Mississippi State) coming by 30 points or more. Coming off an 83-73 home loss against Arkansas on Sunday, …

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — If any team is in deep water in college basketball, it is not No. 19 LSU. Sophomore point guard Tremont Waters had a shootaround versus Texas A&M, scoring 36 points in 34 minutes on Wednesday night. The Tigers’ 72-57 win (17-3, 7-0 Southeastern Conference) is the team’s …

One could say the LSU Tigers are playing pretty well right now. They’ve won nine straight, with their last loss back in 2018. Their most recent win was at Columbia, Missouri, as the team rallied back from 14 down to secure the victory in overtime. Now, No. 19 LSU looks …

The Orlando Magic (20-31) will want no more of the Western Conference and their all-stars after Tuesday night. Arguably the NBA’s two leading MVP candidates, James Harden and Paul George, have given the Magic and head coach Steve Clifford a venomous taste of their scoring abilities in the last few days alone. …

The Florida Gators and Ole Miss Rebels are looking to bounce back after disappointing performances in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge. The Gators lost by 5 points on the road to a solid TCU team, while the Rebels took a beating from the 24th ranked Iowa State Cyclones. With a win …

Big SEC Match up Today as No.7 Kentucky Wildcats take on the Vanderbilt Commodores. Vanderbilt Sitting at the bottom of The SEC, the Commodores are coming off a tough lost to the Oklahoma Sooners in the Big 12/SEC match-up, 86-55. Vanderbilt comes into this game (0-6 SEC) and (9-10 overall) …

The No.22 Mississippi State Bulldogs will face another Alabama team this week, this time in Tuscaloosa to face the Crimson Tide. Alabama and Mississippi State are .500 in conference play, so both teams are hungry for a win. The Bulldogs are looking to continue their momentum after defeating the no. 16 …