By Rex Kirts South won the state basketball championship as a team, and all who played were honored by word or trophy at the season-ending b...

By Rex Kirts Good things happen to teams after winning the state basketball championship in Indiana. The 2008-09 South championship team was...

Point guard Davis has been named all-state by the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association. Wingman Spencer Turner is honorable mention. The I...

By Rex Kirts Ben Stowell and Desmond Marks carved their niche in South basketball history Saturday, together with state champion teammates ...

By Rex Kirts "We're ready to play," South coach J.R. Holmes proclaimed after Thursday's practice. "We'd just rath...

By Rex Kirts The preparation is finished and the preliminaries disposed of. South's basketball players are ready for the main attraction...

By Rex Kirts Kokomo coach Brian McCauley said. "We have some really good basketball players." South coach said the same thing in a...

By Rex Kirts When former South coach Bill Springer, now in the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame, really liked the toughness of a team, he wou...

By Rex Kirts North Central's quickness on defense concerns J.R. Holmes the most. Well, its offensive firepower isn'tbad, either. So ...

By Rex Kirts Alex Forney, Michael Bower and Trae Washington are the latest examples in what has become a major force in South basketball. Th...

Tickets for Saturday's class 4A semistate at Southport are on sale at South now. The $7 tickets are on sale Tuesday in the main office f...

By Rex Kirts In a crisis situation, juniors Trae Washington and Michael Bower hustled off the bench and saved South's season Saturday. L...

By Rex Kirts Criss Beyers is moving up the corporate ladder, and taking a pay cut. The veteran of three decades of coaching basketball at So...

By Rex Kirts Everyone agreed, team play is the best way. Team play had gone into hibernation in recent weeks, reaching lows the past two gam...

By Rex Kirts The bottom line in the tournament is to win, to win and keep playing. And that's what South did Friday night against North,...

By Rex Kirts On Jan. 7 South hosted North and won a convincing 86-55 regular season victory. Sure, that counts. It helped South go on to win...

Tickets for the Bloomington basketball sectional tourney at South are on sale at the schools. Season tickets are $10. The tournament opens T...

By Rex Kirts Dee Davis "usually starts laughing" when he watches the tapes of him in action. It's not the reaction South baske...

By Rex Kirts There's a reason why J.R. Holmes has won more than 600 games in his career, and it showed Saturday afternoon against LaPort...

By Rex Kirts There's no doubt at all in Spencer Turner's mind that shooting begins with confidence. But that confidence starts build...