2015-16 Basketball Preview

SWITZ CITY - With three straters returning from last year's 19-8 Class A regional finalists White River Valley would seem well positioned to make a run at a third straight sectional titles. But the Lady Wolverines' two graduation losses are huge. WRV loses almost half its scoring production - and it's floor general...

SWITZ CITY -- Joe Pigg is no stranger to success. The veteran coach has six sectional championships, two regional titles and one semistate championship attached to his coaching resume. All of those titles have came while coaching at White River Valley, but none on the boys side...

JASONVILLE -- The Shakamak girls basketball team returns a veteran group of players from last season's team who made it to the sectional title game. But those experienced players will have some big shoes to fill with the loss of 1,000-point scorer Sierra Hudson due to graduation...

JASONVILLE - The Shakamak Lakers welcome a new head coach for the 2015-16 season. J.B. Neill takes over the coaching reins from Steve Brett. Brett retired last spring after 43 years in the coaching ranks, 37 as a head coach. He compiled a 73-97 record in seven seasons at the Laker helm...

You don't replace 6-foot-9. Center Austin Robertson graduated from last year's 22-7 Class 2A semistate team. So Coach Joey Hart's Linton-Stockton Miners will have a different look - and a shorter lineup - on the court out of necessity. "We're going to be a much different team but we'll have quite a few of the same faces," the sixth-year Miners coach said. "We're going to play differently. Hopefully we'll play a little bit Faster."...

Most championship teams rely on a veteran group of seniors. Although the Linton-Stockton girls basketball team has a pair of seniors on this years team, the Lady Miners will rely heavily on the its youth. The Miners finished last season 2-21 in Jared Rehmel's first season guiding the team...

LITTLE CINCINNATI - Zack Stevens welcomes back an experienced group of nine seniors and juniors for his sixth season at the helm of the Eastern Greene girls basketball program. All of those nine players have varsity experience - and not just a minute here or a minute there. All have contributed valuable minutes - quantity and quality...

LITTLE CINCINNATI --Like many teams less than two weeks into the season, Eastern Greene boys basketball coach Jon Neill is not sure what he has on his team this season. Due to injuries and sickness the Thunderbirds have yet to have its full team on the practice court at the same time...

DUGGER - Challenges lie ahead for the Dugger Union Community School Bulldogs as they head into their second season since rising from the ashes when the Northeast Sullivan School Board voted in December 2013 to shutter the school. The "new" Bulldogs finished 6-13 in their inaugural season...

DUGGER - One thing first-year Dugger Union girls basketball coach Anthony McKinney won't have to get used to this season is a lot of new faces. Every player returns from last year's team, the first for the newly-formed Dugger Union Community School...

Depth and experience are two good things for a basketball team to have heading into a new season. The Bloomfield boys basketball team will have both this season. The Cardinals lost just two players from last season's 13-10 team. Returning will be a plethora of juniors and seniors for head coach Matt Britton...