Basketball Team of the Week

When the players on the Marlboro boys basketball team woke up for school on Thursday, Feb. 16, they were part of a program that had never reached the Shore Conference Tournament quarterfinals in its history. Five-and-a-half days later those Mustangs were celebrating a trip to the Shore Conference Tournament championship game via one of the upsets of the season in the Shore and even throughout the

In a Shore Conference Class A North division that Christian Brothers Academy has mostly owned, the Freehold Township boys basketball team has become a constant in its own right. In addition to fielding a contender in most years, the Patriots have been able to mark their calendar when it comes to winning the outright division championship...

Last year, the Brick boys basketball program took a key step in its rebuilding process by qualifying for the Shore Conference Tournament for the first time in 10 years. Now, the expectations are raised and the Green Dragons will hit the postseason this week hoping to build on what is currently a 13-win season...

Since joining the Shore Conference more than three decades ago, the Christian Brothers Academy basketball team has rarely played the role of underdog. Even this year, one in which the Colts sought to replace their top six players from last year, CBA served as a proving-ground opponent for many Class A North teams...

Donovan Catholic entered the season with four new starters who just so happened to be replacing the four top scorers on last year's squad, which nearly knocked off Christian Brothers Academy in the NJSIAA South Jersey Non-Public A quarterfinals...

Just three years ago, it would have been hard to imagine the Ranney boys basketball team ever even setting foot on the same court at the same time as St. Anthony - the premier program in N.J. since Hall of Fame coach Bob Hurley took over...

The Rumson boys basketball team opened its 2016-17 season short two returning starters (Elijah McAllister and Mike O'Connor) due to injury while also tasked with replacing the program's all-time leading scorer, Brendan Barry. Faced with those immense odds, the Bulldogs have not only survived; they've thrived...

With none of its five starters returning from last year's team, the Ocean Township boys basketball team was already facing its fair share of challenges. Then the Spartans saw their schedule. Ocean opened up the season with Manasquan, Long Branch and Middletown North - the first two of which were in the Shore Conference Tournament quarterfinals last year and the other a roster chock full of experie

A victory of any kind in Saturday's Shore Conference Tournament championship game against Christian Brothers Academy would have been a landmark accomplishment for the program, but the Mater Dei boys basketball team made sure to win their first ever SCT title in an improbable fashion befitting of their story...

The Manasquan and Rumson-Fair Haven boys basketball teams have developed one of the Shore Conference's best rivalries over the past four years as members of the Class A Central division, but during those handful of seasons, the two never met in a postseason setting...

Head Coach Randy Holmes and his Lakewood Piners boys basketball team accept the Army Strong Team of the Week from Staff Sgt. Caroline Thiel. (Photo by Ry Richardson) Before being named the Shore Sports Network Army Strong Team of the Week for its efforts last week, the Lakewood boys basketball team played a key role in another team winning the award just three weeks earlier...

In a season with plenty of great weeks and perhaps some even better weeks to come, the Mater Dei Prep boys basketball team had its most accomplished stretch of the season from Jan. 31 to the end of last week. That stretch was worthy of the week six Shore Sports Network Army Strong Team of the Week award of the season...