Bolingbrook's Brady Pettigrew averaged 20 points per game and is one of the top recruits in the country for his class. That made him the top candidate for the 2025-26 Herald-News Boys Basketball Player of the Year.
With standouts from across the greater Will and Grundy county area, see who made the 2025-26 Herald-News All-Area Boys Basketball Team.
Brady Pettigrew earned first-team All-State honors. Nedas Venckus made third-team. Two of the area's top prospects are headed to the next level. Here's who else earned postseason recognition.
Despite being rattled at times, Benet showed the poise and execution that it needed to at key moments in topping Bolingbrook in the Class 4A Bolingbrook Sectional title game on Friday night.
Benet holds off host Bolingbrook to win the Class 4A Bolingbrook Sectional title on Friday night.
Brady Pettigrew scored a game-high 25 points and Bolingbrook beat Neuqua Valley 68-53 in the Class 4A Bolingbrook Sectional
Wheaton Academy rode its defense early, then the Warriors' offense caught up in posting a 46-40 win over Providence in a Class 3A Hinsdale South Sectional semifinal Wednesday.
Lockport missed its first 16 shots and didn't connect on a field goal for nearly 14 minutes, digging a hole it couldn't climb out of in a 59-33 loss to Marist at the Class 4A Joliet West Sectional on Wednesday.
St. Francis' boys basketball team entered the postseason with a losing record and a No. 7 seed, but now finds itself in the sectional championship after a Tuesday win over Lemont.
Bishop McNamara's boys basketball team held Wilmington to a season-low 24 points and turned 17 offensive rebounds into 18 second-chance points in Tuesday's Class 2A Seneca Sectional semifinal win.
Bishop McNamara defeated Wilmington 61-24 in the IHSA Class 2A Seneca Sectional semifinals on Tuesday, March 3, 2026.
St. Francis never gave up the lead defeating Lemont 52-44 in the Class 3A Hinsdale South Regional semifinal on Wednesday night.
St. Francis led Joliet Catholic by 15 with two minutes left in the third only for the Hilltoppers to get back within three in the final period. The Spartans ultimately held on 58-54 to make the sectional semis.
In front of its home crowd, Wilmington's boys basketball team claimed the Class 2A regional championship with a 54-43 win over Seneca on Friday night.
When the final buzzer sounded, Lemont had secured its second consecutive triumph holding its opponent under 30 points, as smothering defense for all 32 minutes propelled Lemont to a 42-29 victory over Glenbard South on Friday night in the Class 3A Fenton Regional final.
Led by TJ Williams' 22 points, Bolingbrook placed four players in double digits and another with nine to beat Plainnfield East 83-60 and win the Class 4A Oswego Regional title
Lockport used an 27-1 scoring run in the first half to earn a decisive 58-30 win over Joliet West in the title game of the Lockport Class 4A Regional.
