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Boys basketball

SM East's boys and girls basketball teams made their final home appearance of the regular season Friday with a pair of Senior Night games against Sunflower League rival Leavenworth. The Pioneers got the best of the Lancers in the girls...
Being a Lancer sports fan this year has been rewarding — but SM East teams have certainly had a tendency to keep their fans on edge until the final buzzer sounds. Shawn Hair post game interview Click the arrow to listenSuch was...
Shawn Hair can't recall exactly what had led to the decision in the early 1990s to end the annual Rockhurst-SM East series that stretched back to 1975, but when the new head basketball coach took over at SM East...
Ladies and gentlemen: SM East has a new free throw champion. Senior Colin Burns shocked the world Sunday when he bested the previously unthinkable high mark of 301 set by then-freshman Davis Morrison in 2013, draining 302 shots from the...
Kids: I don’t care how cold it is outside. Get a broom, brush some of that snow off the driveway, knock the icicles from the rim, and work in a few hours of free throw practice! (Or, I suppose,...
A last-second shot by Oklahoma City's Bishop McGuinness high school stopped SM East's boys basketball team from repeating as champs of the season-opening public-private tournament Saturday — but huge performances by Lucas Jones on the way to the title game...
The SM East and SM North boys varsity basketball teams kick off their seasons tonight as part of the SportsCare Shootout Public vs. Private tournament. Now in its second year (it's been renamed from it inaugural ARC Madness billing in...
Monday isn't just Tax Day this year. It is also the last day to register a team in the 12th annual Lancer Classic Basketball Tournament. The tournament is the largest fundraiser for the SME boys' basketball program. Proceeds from the...
Prairie Village native Cooper Beckett, a Rockhurst High School grad and current Rockhurst University junior, was named the Rockhurst Atheltics Department's "Hawk of the Week" in February after a solid week on the basketball court. The 6'8" 190-pound center scored...
After enjoying full-caliber broadcast coverage of their team's opening-round game in the state 6A boys basketball tournament last Wednesday, SM East fans were left high and dry last Friday when Metro Sports declined to broadcast the Lancers' semi-final game...
There was no getting around the sense of disappointment in the SM East boys basketball team's locker room Saturday. Not 24 hours after suffering a heartbreaking 59-58 loss to Blue Valley West in the state 6A semi-finals, they'd had to...
In the end, a single point separated the SM East boys basketball team from their chance at the first state title in school history. Propelled by a third quarter in which seemingly ever shot they sent toward the basket fell...