Rick Peterson resigned as boys basketball coach at Marian Central after one season and was officially named the Alden-Hebron coach this week. Peterson previously coached the Giants for three years.
The IHSA on Tuesday announced that the boys and girls basketball state tournaments will change their format, reverting to a similar schedule used when the single-weekend format was introduced in 2022 until 2024.
Former McHenry boys basketball coach Tim Paddock has been named the new coach at Woodstock North. He has not coached since stepping down at McHenry in 2017.
Area basketball players compete in the boys’s game of McHenry County Area All-Star Basketball Extravaganza on Sunday, April 13, 2025, at Alden-Hebron’s Tigard Gymnasium in Hebron.
Many of the area’s top senior girls and boys basketball players will star in the McHenry County Area All-Star Basketball Extravaganza on Sunday at Alden-Hebron’s historic Tigard Gymnasium.
Meet the 2025 Northwest Herald All-Area boys basketball team.
After leading McHenry to its first Fox Valley Conference championship and first conference title since 1976, Corky Card has been named the 2025 Northwest Herald Boys Basketball Coach of the Year.
Crystal Lake South senior point guard AJ Demirov is the Northwest Herald Boys Basketball Player of the Year for the second season in a row. He averaged 18.5 points and 4.6 assists per game in leading the Gators to a Class 3A sectional final.
Roger Cannon was a humble, quiet leader and scoring machine for the Neponset Zephyrs in the mid-60s. He went on to a highly successful coaching career at Marengo High School. Cannon, who passed away on March 6, will be posthumously inducted into the IBCA Hall of Fame on May 3.