Friday Night Hoops is back!!!

Old Man Winter has shown is ugly face again,and that can only mean one thing: Friday Night Hoops on sportstownchicago.com is back. Every friday night at 5 p.m. tune in to hear the most wall-to-wall coverage on local Chicago-land basketball. With a pre-game round table where our experts discuss everything from NBA,college,and high school hoops. Also,our talent has been known to get a little off subject talking about such things as fantasy football,movie reviews,great food,and much more!!! You never know what your going to get. Also featured on Friday Night Hoops is a weekly game of the week. This game usually matches up two of the area's top teams ina weekly battle for bragging rights. We here at sportstownchicago.com are very excited to be back in the swing of things during basketball season. We look forward to you joining us all season long,we will do our best to keep you up to date on all your local prep knowledge. Thank you for your time and talk to you soon.

Chris Jones

Friday Night Hoops- 12/17/2010

As we now near a month into the IHSA Basketball season there have been a few great storylines thus far.

12th ranked East Aurora (6-1) has soared up the rankings this season thanks in large part to four star Connecticut bound recruit Ryan Boatright. At just 5'10, 150 he has not only become one of the top players in the state, but also in the country.

Boatright is coming off back to back spectacular games in which he dropped 63 and 39 points respectively. He is listed as the 11th best Point Guard in the country as well as the 48th ranked player in the country.

East Aurora has to be considered a sleeper to go down state because of the superstar play from Boatright, however there are quite a few other teams who have to be mentioned.

Simeon is ranked number one in the state and after demolishing Wallace HS out of Gary,IN 85-38 on ESPNU, some question if Simeon will lose a game this season.

Two teams that I love a lot this year are the 10th ranked Glenbard East Rams and the 3rd ranked Benet Academy Red Wings.

Glenbard East is led by Zach Miller who is committed to Northern Illinois and Jon Hill who has committed to Illinois State.

Benet has arguably the best big man (listed at 7 feet) in the state as Frank Kaminsky has led the 3rd ranked Red Wings to an undefeated season so far.

There is still a long way to go in the basketball season, but make sure you stay tuned to sportstownchicago.com every Friday starting at 5pm as we have our weekly Friday Night Hoops show covering IHSA Basketball as well as college and professional sports. At Sportstown Chicago we are in a league of our own!

-Danny V-

Week 3 Fast Break

It's Friday Night, and another great High School Hoops matchup will be featured on SportsTownChicago.com with pregame coverage starting at 5 PM! This week's match-up will feature the Dukes of York going to Lyons Township to take on the Lions. It's a good West Suburban Silver Conference matchup early in the season!

On Tuesday, the previous High School Hoops coverage on SportsTownChicago.com it was a first as Girl's Basketball was covered. The Glenbard South Raiders fell to 9-1 on the season as they lost to the Wheaton North Falcons. It was an exciting match-up that ended 55-50 and went down to the wire. It was a great way to start the week off as tonight's match-up should also go down to the wire.

Remember it all starts tonight with the pre-game show at 5 PM followed by the York at Lyons Township match-up at 7:30 PM on SportsTownChicago.com.