Boys’ WOBM Christmas Classic

The girls basketball action in the 33rd annual WOBM Christmas Classic tips off on Saturday, December 17th and concludes with the championship game at Pine Belt Arena in Toms River on Wednesday, December 30th.  Check out the bracket below, and follow all of the WOBM Christmas Classic HERE...

The 33rd annual WOBM Christmas Classic returns to the Pine Belt Arena next month and Tournament Director Kevin Williams has announced the teams that will make up the biggest holiday basketball tournament in the shore and state which begins the weekend of December 17-18. RWJBarnabas Health returns as the presenting sponsor of the 7-day, 52-game WOBM Classic.

I was watching a program last night in which a former college and pro basketball player was invited back to his high school and spoke to the current team before they took the court. In the locker room he told those teenagers that he had played in big arenas and earned big dollars but his greatest memories were of his high school days when he wore a uniform with the name of his school on the front.

The holidays have come and gone and so has the 32nd annual WOBM Christmas Classic.  The 2015 edition of this boys and girls basketball tournament saw Manasquan winning both brackets and bragging rights heading into the 2016 season.

Shore Sports Network Players of the Week: All-Holiday Team Edition Here is a look at the top performers from across the Shore Conference based on performances turned in on the Holiday Tournament circuit, as well as team success in those tournaments or showcases...

Boys WOBM Bracket TOMS RIVER - In a game in which it found second and third chance opportunties to be abundant but actual baskets hard to come by, the Manasquan boys basketball team just hoped at some point the ball would start going in the basket during its WOBM Christmas Classic championship-game showdown with defending tournament champion Toms River North...

TOMS RIVER - The Manasquan boys basketball team proved last year - as if it needed to be proven - that a slip-up in a tournament setting in December won't prevent a good team from making a tournament run in March. While the Warriors have their sights set on a build-up toward another state title run like the one that yielded them an NJSIAA Central Jersey Group II championship last year, they wouldn

TOMS RIVER - Toms River North junior Mike Nyisztor has seen opposing defenses try all sorts of things to keep him from getting his shot off over the last year, so when he draws a defensive assignment like the one coach Rory Caswell gave him on Monday in the WOBM Christmas Classic semifinals against Freehold Township, he can put himself in his opponent's shoes...

Holiday Tournament Master Schedule WOBM Christmas Classic Semifinals At Pine Belt Arena (2) Toms River North 61, (6) Freehold Twp. 50 Senior Pat Marinaccio scored 20 points and grabbed 13 rebounds and the Mariners (5-0) pulled away for a win over the Patriots (3-2) to earn a spot in Wednesday's tournament championship game...

WOBM Christmas Classic - Bracket Semifinals At Pine Belt Arena (2) Toms River North 61, (6) Freehold Twp. 50 Senior Pat Marinaccio scored 20 points and grabbed 13 rebounds and the Mariners (5-0) pulled away for a win over the Patriots (3-2) to earn a spot in Wednesday's tournament championship game...

TOMS RIVER - The wins may not necessarily be getting prettier as they go, but with each win to begin the season, the Donovan Catholic boys basketball team is passing a tougher test at each turn. The Griffins extended their perfect start to the season to four games Saturday by taking down Red Bank Catholic, 57-49, in the WOBM Christmas Classic quarterfinals...

TOMS RIVER - Most high school basketball coaches cringe at the site of one of their players attempting a shot seven feet behind the three-point line, let alone encourage their players to do it. The list of players Freehold Township boys basketball coach Brian Golub has implored to shoot the ball from that kind of distance is two players long...