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2 weeks ago | 
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Andrew Robinson (@ADRobinson3)
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The 2025 edition of the Donofrio Classic, the 63rd annual spring boys’ basketball all-star tournament in Conshohocken, continued on Thursday night with the last two second-round playoff games at the Fellowship House.
Here’s a report from the evening:
Game One: Love Basketball 117, Positive Image White 103
CoBL Note: Despite Love Basketball winning the game, Positive Image White is advancing to the quarterfinal round.
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2 weeks ago | 
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Joseph Santoliquito (@JSantoliquito) +
Olivia Valania
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CONSHOHOCKEN — Fans received a show and then some Monday night, as placing for the advanced rounds of the 2025 Donofrio Classic took place at the Fellowship House in Conshohocken.
CoBL will be in attendance for as many games as possible throughout the tournament.
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3 weeks ago | 
cityofbasketballlove.com | Jeff Griffith |Josh Verlin |Andrew Robinson |David Comer
Jeff Griffith (@hooplove215)
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When you’re in the midst of a magical season, you certainly don’t tend to expect it will end with a loss.
That’s why one word served as a common denominator amongst several of Garnet Valley girls’ basketball players and coaches when describing their March 21 contest with Upper St. Clair — a four-point defeat suffered in the PIAA 6A state semifinals.
Bittersweet.
Senior guard Haylie Adamski became Garnet Valley's all-time leading scorer this season.
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1 month ago | 
cityofbasketballlove.com | Josh Verlin |David Comer |Jeff Griffith |Tom Robinson
By Josh Verlin (@jmverlin)
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Laura Ziegler is ready for some revenge.
That hadn’t been on the Saint Joseph’s junior forward’s mind until after the culmination of a 69-40 rout of Albany in the opening round of the Women’s Basketball Invitation Tournament. But there was no denying the ripe opportunity sitting ahead, Wednesday’s win setting up a Sunday afternoon date with a friendly foe.
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1 month ago | 
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By David Comer
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The path to becoming one of college basketball’s most electrifying dunkers began several years ago with a single dunk in an empty gym on a hot summer day.
For Christian Ings, a Neumann-Goretti product who is now a graduate student at Norfolk State, which is preparing for a first-round NCAA tournament game on Friday against Florida, that first dunk still resonates.
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1 month ago | 
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By David Comer
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The game was more than two weeks ago, but it’s still there. It’s in my head when I’m driving to the office. It’s in my thoughts while I’m at the gym. It’s there. It won’t go away.
This game that has been occupying my mind for weeks now wasn’t a college game or a high school game. It wasn’t even a JV game.
It was a rec league game.
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1 month ago | 
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By Josh Verlin (@jmverlin)
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A season full of promise for the Saint Joseph’s men ended Wednesday night with a game that mirrored the Hawks’ season.
There were promising stretches, impressive individual performances, and some real moments of growth — but down the stretch, it was the University of Alabama-Birmingham that made the plays it needed as St. Joe’s went cold.
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1 month ago | 
cityofbasketballlove.com | David Comer |Josh Verlin |Jeff Griffith |Tom Robinson
By David Comer
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Phil Martelli Jr. vividly remembers watching Selection Sunday in his family’s living room when he was growing up in Drexel Hill.
The TV would be turned to CBS. The blank NCAA tournament bracket torn from the sports section of that day’s Philadelphia Inquirer would be in one hand. A pencil would be in the other.
As each school’s name was called, he would quickly add it to the bracket. That bracket would be his life for the next three weeks.
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1 month ago | 
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By Josh Verlin (@jmverlin)
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The Sweetest Place on Earth is just one win away.
The PIAA state semifinals take place this upcoming weekend — Friday, March 21 and Saturday, March 22 — at high school gyms across the state, with 48 teams still alive in 12 different brackets across six classifications on the boys and girls’ sides. That includes 16 teams from the Philadelphia area still alive, with eight local squads playing on Friday and eight on Saturday.
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1 month ago | 
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By Josh Verlin (@jmverlin) +
David Comer (@dhcomer-cobl)
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As usual, Philadelphia has its fingerprints all over March Madness.
Several dozen area alumni are playing in the 2025 NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s basketball tournament, from stars on blue-blood programs with a chance to make a run to a national title down through role players on Cinderellas just hoping for their One Shining Moment on the sport’s biggest stage.
