Tag Archives: Class D

Multi-perspective look at 2010 W. Michigan state basketball titles

After a quartet of extremely entertaining state tournaments, West Michigan brought home two boys basketball state championships in 2010.   And even as state championships go, these two were of particular significance. In Class-A, Kalamazoo Central avenged their 2009 state championship loss with a 74-65 victory over Ann Arbor Huron, [...]

Western Michigan Christian holds off Covert, now focused on history

One more game to make history.  The last time a boys basketball team from West Michigan won three consecutive state titles, Kalamazoo Central in 1949-51, people watched the game on this doohickey.  You wanna talk greater Grand Rapids area?  Well, then you’re talking Grand Haven in 1933-35, when they didn’t [...]

2010 boys basketball All-Staters (AP) – All classes included

Kudos to Matthew Anderson, from Legends High, for breaking the newz. The 2010 Associated Press Class A All-State basketball team, selected by Michigan sports writers: Maurice Jones, Saginaw Arthur Hill, 5-8, Sr. (Player of the Year) Keith Appling, Detroit Pershing, 6-2, Sr. Juwan Howard, Detroit Pershing, 6-5, Sr. Trey Zeigler, [...]

Covert vs. WMC | Class-D semifinals | A liberated fan's dream

The basketball that the average fan wants to watch and the basketball that the average coach wants to coach are fundamentally different.  The latter is a style of the game predicated on exact execution of strategically designed plays on both the offensive and defensive end of the floor, while the [...]

On paper, Western Michigan Christian should win third straight Class-D championship

In a sporting environment that breeds competition between the left and right sides of the state, state championships are the points by which we determine the winner.  In recent years the basketball crown has been firmly atop the head of East Michigan — except in Class-D.  In Class-D, Muskegon Western [...]

West Michigan Allstar Top-10 Teams: Basketball State Tournament

One last time, we here at West Michigan Allstar have done the dirty work, combing the far reaches of the Internet for nuggets of pertinent basketball info until our beards grew dark and the coffee was gone, all to rank the Top-10 basketball teams in West Michigan.  You’ll find the [...]

West Michigan Allstar Top-10 Teams: Basketball Week-13

We here at West Michigan Allstar have done the dirty work, combing the far reaches of the Internet for nuggets of pertinent basketball info until our beards grew dark and the coffee was gone, all to rank the Top-10 basketball teams in West Michigan.  You’ll find the results below. Along [...]

West Michigan Allstar Top-10 Teams: Basketball Week-12

We here at West Michigan Allstar have done the dirty work, combing the far reaches of the Internet for nuggets of pertinent basketball info until our beards grew dark and the coffee was gone, all to rank the Top-10 basketball teams in West Michigan.  You’ll find the results below. Along [...]

West Michigan Allstar Top-10 Teams: Basketball Week-11

We here at West Michigan Allstar have done the dirty work, combing the far reaches of the Internet for nuggets of pertinent basketball info until our beards grew dark and the coffee was gone, all to rank the Top-10 basketball teams in West Michigan.  You’ll find the results below. Along [...]

WMA takes attendance: savage runnering

A look around the wide world of high school sports and the web that covers it.  Well, not the whole world, mostly just the distance between Lake Michigan and somewhere-in-the-vicinity-of-Lansing, give or take about 50-miles.  In an order wholly indecipherable to the naked eye.  So look closely: Feb. 12 high [...]