By Robert Alfonso Jr. Atlanta, GA – For the next two years, the Georgia High School Association basketball state championships are moving to Atlanta. The boys and girls state championships will be played at Georgia State University‘s Convention Center for the next two years, which seats 8,000 spectators. This was first reported on by Georgia Public Broadcasting sports network. The […]
Months of preparation comes down to four days as the GHSA crowns its basketball champions By Robert Alfonso Jr. MACON, Ga — It all comes down to this. The summer workouts. The team camps. The extra sprints at the end of practice when legs were already heavy. Months of preparation across Georgia high school basketball will culminate this week inside […]
By Robert Alfonso Jr. The road to the GHSA Boys Basketball State Championships at the Macon Centreplex is set, and this year’s Final Four fields are loaded with familiar powers, historic first-time runs, and a few teams that have caught fire at exactly the right moment. From a Cobb County takeover in Class 6A to an undefeated run in Class 4A, the semifinals promise high […]
By Robert Alfonso Jr. Time is supposed to be measurable. In high school basketball — especially in March, under the bright lights of the Georgia High School Association state playoffs — it is sacred. On Tuesday night in the Elite Eight, time bent. It twisted. And depending on who you ask in Flowery Branch and Albany, it broke. Cherokee Bluff’s dream of […]
By Robert Alfonso Jr. The Road to Macon doesn’t widen this weekend — it narrows. Survivors of the first round of the GHSA State Basketball Playoffs now find themselves one win from the Elite Eight, where talent meets tension and reputations are either cemented or shattered. Some programs already tasted Final Four-level intensity in Round 1. Others barely broke a sweat. That luxury […]