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Mar 17, 2025 | cityofbasketballlove.com | Josh Verlin |Jeff Griffith |Tom Robinson |Andrew Robinson

By Josh Verlin (@jmverlin) — 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.

Mar 16, 2025 | cityofbasketballlove.com | Josh Verlin |Jeff Griffith |Tom Robinson |Andrew Robinson

By Josh Verlin (@jmverlin) — READING — Imhotep was in a place it hadn’t been too often: trailing at halftime of a PIAA state playoff game. Andre Noble’s Panthers entered Saturday’s PIAA 6A quarterfinal against Parkland on a 34-game state tournament winning streak going back to a semifinal loss to Neumann-Goretti exactly nine years prior — March 15, 2016.

Mar 15, 2025 | cityofbasketballlove.com | Andrew Robinson |Josh Verlin |Jeff Griffith |Tom Robinson

Andrew Robinson (@ADRobinson3) –– EASTON >> Part of Chris Roantree’s coaching philosophy is riding the hot hand. What’s important to note is that belief does extend to just one side of the ball. With Hazleton off to a hot shooting start in Saturday’s PIAA 6A quarterfinal game at Easton Area Middle School, Father Judge found a hot hand defensively in sophomore Rahiky Mason and let it ride.

Mar 13, 2025 | cityofbasketballlove.com | Josh Verlin |Jeff Griffith |Andrew Robinson |Tom Robinson

By Josh Verlin (@jmverlin) — We’re into the PIAA quarterfinals, only two rounds away from the championship games at Hershey’s GIANT Center (March 27-29). There’s still plenty of Philly-area talent left in the various brackets, including 15 teams who will play a quarterfinal game on Friday night: one in the girls’ 3A field, two in boys’ 4A, three in boys’ 1A, four in boys’ 5A and five in girls’ 6A, which has all four quarterfinals with at least one local squad in the mix.

Mar 13, 2025 | cityofbasketballlove.com | Josh Verlin |Jeff Griffith |Andrew Robinson |Tom Robinson

By Josh Verlin (@jmverlin) — READING — It was already Amon Fowlkes’ night. But the 5-foot-11 guard made sure that Thursday will be Amon Fowlkes Day in Coatesville. Amon Fowlkes (above) hit the game-winner for Coatesville in the 6A second round. (Photo: Josh Verlin/CoBL) With his team battling Cumberland Valley in a back-and-forth PIAA Class 6A second-round game, Fowlkes responsible for much of Coatesville’s early shot-making, he saved the best for last.