By Josh Verlin (@jmverlin) + Joseph Santoliquito (@JSantoliquito) DREXEL HILL — The 34th annual Billy Lake ALS Basketball Marathon took place on Saturday, with nine games running on the court at Bo...

By CoBL Staff (@hooplove215) CoBL’s first-ever coaches’ clinic is just around the corner.  The inaugural CoBLxPYB Philly Coaches’ Clinic, featuring more than a dozen Division I coaches, is taking...

Josh Verlin (@jmverlin) Ed. Note: This article is part of our 2026-27 season coverage, which will run for the six weeks preceding the first official games of the year on Nov. 3. To access all of ou...

By Josh Verlin (@jmverlin) Good hoops and a great cause makes for a terrific combination.  The 34th annual Billy Lake Memorial ALS Basketball Marathon comes to Bonner-Prendergast this Saturday wi...

By CoBL Staff (@hooplove215) CoBL’s first-ever coaches’ clinic is just around the corner.  The inaugural CoBLxPYB Philly Coaches’ Clinic, featuring more than a dozen Division I coaches, is taking...

Josh Verlin (@jmverlin) Ed. Note: This article is part of our 2026-27 season coverage, which will run for the six weeks preceding the first official games of the year on Nov. 3. To access all of ou...

Andrew Robinson (@ADRobinson3) It seemed predestined before Zya Small even played a high school basketball game. While she entered her freshman year at Scranton High School already with multiple ...

By Josh Verlin (@jmverlin) Ed. Note: This story is part of CoBL’s “Prepping for Preps” series, which will take a look at many of the top high school programs in the region as part of our 2026-27 se...

Zak Wolf (@ZakWolf22) Ed. Note: This story is part of CoBL’s “Prepping for Preps” series, which will take a look at many of the top high school programs in the region as part of our 2026-27 season ...

Joe Santoliquito (@JoeSantoliquito) Reginna Baker does not talk much, except to herself when she plays.  Otherwise, the 5-foot-8 Neumann-Goretti senior guard prefers the old-school way of letting...

Zak Wolf (@ZakWolf22) Ed. Note: This story is part of CoBL’s “Prepping for Preps” series, which will take a look at many of the top high school programs in the region as part of our 2026-27 season...

By CoBL Staff The 5th Annual CoBL Girls’ Fall Classic continued its showcase of high-level play Sunday, with 30 teams from around the region coming to Spring-Ford High School to get in a couple ga...

By CoBL Staff The 5th Annual CoBL Girls’ Fall Classic continued its showcase of high-level play Sunday, with 30 teams from around the region coming to Spring-Ford High School to get in a couple ga...

By CoBL Staff The 5th Annual CoBL Girls’ Fall Classic got off to a roaring start on Saturday, with two dozen teams from around the region coming to Spring-Ford High School to get in a couple games ...

By CoBL Staff The 5th Annual CoBL Girls’ Fall Classic got off to a roaring start on Saturday, with two dozen teams from around the region coming to Spring-Ford High School to get in a couple games ...

By Josh Verlin (@jmverlin) Want to see some great girls’ basketball this weekend? Spring-Ford High School is the place to be.  The CoBL Girls’ Fall Classic is already a half-decade old, and our 5...

By CoBL Staff As City of Basketball Love continues to expand its coverage and presence throughout the Philadelphia basketball community, we’re excited to announce the newest addition to our full-ti...

Josh Verlin (@jmverlin) Ed. Note: This article is part of our 2026-27 season coverage, which will run for the six weeks preceding the first official games of the year on Nov. 3. To access all of ou...

Josh Verlin (@jmverlin) Ed. Note: This article is part of our 2026-27 season coverage, which will run for the six weeks preceding the first official games of the year on Nov. 3. To access all of ou...

By Tom Robinson Jada Lynch has been a coveted college prospect from the time she arrived in the United States as a seventh-grader. As she prepares for her first season of college basketball – aft...

Josh Verlin (@jmverlin) Ed. Note: This article is part of our 2026-27 season coverage, which will run for the six weeks preceding the first official games of the year on Nov. 3. To access all of ou...

By Josh Verlin (@jmverlin) Want to see some great girls’ basketball this weekend? Spring-Ford High School is the place to be.  The CoBL Girls’ Fall Classic is already a half-decade old, and our 5...

By Josh Verlin (@jmverlin) Ed. Note: This article is part of our 2026-27 season coverage, which will run for the five weeks preceding the first official games of the year on Nov. 1. To access all o...

By Jeff Griffith Ed. Note: This article is part of our 2026-27 season coverage, which will run for the five weeks preceding the first official games of the year on Nov. 1. To access all of our high...

Zak Wolf (@ZakWolf22) The blueprint for Jeremiah Adedeji couldn’t be more clear. As a 6-foot-9 versatile forward who's still polishing his game, one school in his recruitment stood out due to its p...

Zak Wolf (ZakWolf22) When Ajani Stewart finished his sophomore year at St. Mark's (Del.), he told his father, Terrence, that he wanted to play Division I basketball. It’d always been Stewart’s dr...

Jeff Griffith After pair of 20-win seasons in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the trajectory for Temple women’s basketball was headed in the right direction. A 15-17 campaign a year ago, though, brought some ...

By Josh Verlin (@jmverlin) Korey Francis will never forget the conversation. The Bonner-Prendergast standout, a rising sophomore in the summer of 2024, went to a basketball camp at Rutgers Univer...

Jeff Griffith Having lost 10 of its last 12 at the end of last season to end up with a mark of 9-23, La Salle’s men’s program is ready for a fresh slate.  The Explorers’ roster certainly got a ma...

Jeff Griffith It’s been several years since Temple saw the NCAA Tournament — seven years, to be exact — and the Owls have arguably been one or two steps away from reaching the platform for the bett...

By David Comer Andre Gibbs has always wanted to be a head coach, but he didn’t want to be a head coach just to be a head coach. He wanted to find the right situation. I never wanted to rush into ...

By Mike Gross Wilson Udo used to be a lacrosse guy from a lacrosse family - his father played the sport at Towson University. His sister, Ellie, played it at Brown and his older brother, Ennis, st...

By Matt Allibone (@Bad2theAllibone)  Patrese Feamster could have felt elated. He could have felt relieved.  He had just accomplished a lifelong goal, after all.  Instead, Feamster had a diffe...

By CoBL Staff The 2026 edition of the CoBL Interstate Shootout had its conclusion on Sunday with eight more sets of high-level high school boys’ preseason basketball. Many of the area’s top teams c...

By CoBL Staff The 2026 edition of the CoBL Interstate Shootout had its conclusion on Sunday with eight more sets of high-level high school boys’ preseason basketball. Many of the area’s top teams c...

By CoBL Staff The 2026 edition of the CoBL Interstate Shootout had its conclusion on Sunday with eight more sets of high-level high school boys’ preseason basketball. Many of the area’s top teams c...

By CoBL Staff The first day of the 2026 CoBL Interstate Shootout brought nearly 70 area high school boys teams to the courts at the Alan Horwitz ‘Sixth Man’ Center on Saturday over the course of 1...

By CoBL Staff The first day of the 2026 CoBL Interstate Shootout brought nearly 70 area high school boys teams to the courts at the Alan Horwitz ‘Sixth Man’ Center on Saturday over the course of 1...

By CoBL Staff The first day of the 2026 CoBL Interstate Shootout brought nearly 70 area high school boys teams to the courts at the Alan Horwitz ‘Sixth Man’ Center on Saturday over the course of 1...

By CoBL Staff The first day of the 2026 CoBL Interstate Shootout brought nearly 70 area high school boys teams to the courts at the Alan Horwitz ‘Sixth Man’ Center on Saturday over the course of 1...

By Josh Verlin (@jmverlin) It’s time for the biggest event of the 2026 fall calendar.  The 11th annual CoBL Interstate Shootout is our biggest ever, with 118 teams registered for an action-packed...

Andrew Robinson (@ADRobinson3) The wait was more than worth it. When Archbishop Carroll guard Abbie McFillin started getting serious attention from Division I colleges last summer while playing w...

By Josh Verlin + Anna Marks HAVERFORD — The 2026 Rome Runs “Never Forget” Classic took place on Saturday at a trio of gyms around the area, as the ramp-up to the 2026-27 high school season begins ...

By Josh Verlin (@jmverlin) The 11th Annual CoBL Interstate Shootout is coming up quickly — Sep. 19-20 at the Alan Horwitz ‘Sixth Man’ Center — and there’s only a couple spots left in our field! M...

By Josh Verlin (@jmverlin) The sixth annual ‘Never Forget Classic,’ hosted by Rome Runs Hoops, will take place this Saturday (Sep. 12) at a trio of gyms across Montgomery County.  Archbishop Carr...

By Josh Verlin (@jmverlin) The first big event of the 2026 preseason, the annual West Chester ‘Big 64,’ takes place this weekend, with nearly 120 teams from around the region going to WCU for three...

By Josh Verlin (@jmverlin) Fresh off the program’s best season in nearly three decades, and with a good bit of the core back in place, the La Salle women are aiming to keep it going. And while ther...

By Josh Verlin (@jmverlin) A rematch of last year’s NCAA Tournament opening-round game, a trip to the Naval Academy and a visit to Michigan State are the highlights of Penn men’s basketball’s non-c...