Wednesday’s game between the Celtics and Clippers was highly entertaining. Boston required overtime to win despite having Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and Derrick White in the lineup. The Clippers were down four starters (James Harden, Norman Powell, Kawhi Leonard, and Ivica Zubac), but the available players didn’t use that as an excuse.

Jayson King (15) of Central Regional tries to drive past Rey Weinseimer (2) of Manasquan during the WOBM Christmas Classic boys basketball final between Central Regional and Manasquan at Toms River High School North in Toms River, NJ on 12/30/24. Scott Faytok | NJ Advance Media

It's No. 6 Florida basketball rallied back from down 14 points in the second half to win by a point at South Carolina

Georgia basketball continues to have problems closing out SEC opponents on the road. This time, Arkansas won its first league game by rallying to win

The Knights had an overtime win over Attleboro (76-75), sandwiched between Catholic Conference wins over Xaverian (72-62) and Malden Catholic (80-74).

A brawl broke out on the court at a Northern California high school basketball game Tuesday night between Foresthill and Futures high schools.

With another week of play under our belt, it is time to look at some of the standout high school girls basketball players from the state of Mississippi last week. As always, we ask you, the fans to vote for who think the player of the week should be for games played from January 12-18.

Here's an in-depth breakdown of the contenders for PennLive's boys basketball Defensive Player of the Year honors.

It will be extremely difficult to knock off the Cougars in the mountains. BYU is 9-1 at home and 2-1 in Quad 2 games, as Cincinnati fits that distinction being a team ranked outside the NET's top 30. The Bearcats are 2-1 against BYU since the 1949-50 season, winning by an average of 11 points.

The Millington senior scored 34 points to lead the Cardinals, setting the program’s career scoring record with 1,736 points. It breaks the previous record of 1,714 set by Austin Levan. Bryce Martin added 10 points for the 11-1 Cardinals.