Will Larkin

For 27 years, the Tribune has capped each high school sports year by honoring a group of students whose excellence extends to both the classroom and playing field. The 2016-17...

Charlie Moore, Mr. Basketball of Illinois for 2016, will transfer from California, the school announced Thursday. Moore, a Morgan Park graduate, averaged 12.2 points and a team-high 3.5 assists while...

While Illinois players were shut out of the McDonald's All-American games, fans don't have to look far past the state's eastern or northern borders to find someone to root for...

Edwardsville's Mark Smith was a relatively unknown basketball player going into his senior year. Rock Island's Brea Beal has been known in girls hoops circles since she was in middle...

Jacob Keller held it together the best he could. Fenwick's point guard and stoic leader, or as Friars coach Rick Malnati calls him, "the quarterback on the football field and...

Heart-stopping wins have become a habit for Fremd. Sort of. The undefeated Vikings' 36-35 overtime victory against Jacobs at Tuesday's Hoffman Estates Supersectional was their second thriller in a row...

In its 118-year history, Illinois high school basketball has produced a remarkable bounty of talent. With the IHSA's tournaments under way, we undertook the daunting — possibly maddening — task...

One way of thinking about basketball pairings is that their importance is overrated since one team will have to play the other, or one of equal quality, eventually. Don't tell...

Allante Pickens stepped to the free-throw line at Curie, a place he has visited countless times in his four years as a Condor. This was the first of those times...