Taylor Miller verbally committed to the Southern Utah University basketball program last June shortly after he was offered a scholarship. So, why is this news in late September?
Along the way, it became clear: Dressler, a shooting guard and small forward, would be a steal of a recruit for a college basketball program. That program is ...
A college basketball player from Centennial High, his teammate from Palo Verde and their coach from Durango are in the middle of a postseason run of a lifetime ...
This state championship helped rewrite the record books. The Bishop Gorman High basketball team beat Palo Verde 74-54 in the Division I state championship game, using ...
The game was closer than the final score indicates. The Bishop Gorman High basketball team closed strong today in the Division I state championship game against Palo Verde ...
The Palo Verde High basketball team’s summer practices usually included mention of the Panthers’ goal of winning a state championship in the upcoming season. While that goal seemed unrealistic ...
The Palo Verde High basketball team wasn’t ranked in the preseason top-10. Now, the Panthers are two games away from winning the state championship ...
Chase Jeter began icing his knees the moment he checked out of Friday night’s game against Palo Verde, which made complete sense. Treatment was a necessity because ...
Grant Dressler stuck to Troy Brown like superglue. Nothing could possibly detach the Palo Verde senior from the Centennial sophomore at the top of the key in the final seconds of the first Sunset Regional semifinal. ...
What a difference a half makes. The Centennial High basketball team led by just one point today at halftime against visiting Palo Verde in the Sunset Regional quarterfinals, struggling against the Panthers’ guard-heavy lineup. The Bulldogs dominated the second half, though, in outscoring Palo Verde by 29 points in what wound up be a convincing 79-49 victory to advance to Thursday’s regional semifinals.
Attention to “Ocean's Thirteen” and Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez: You now have company in the annals of most enthralling trilogies in Las Vegas over the last decade. The Bishop Gorman and Centennial basketball teams will meet again Friday night. The third matchup between the two best Division 1 high school basketball teams became official when Gorman breezed past Palo Verde 71-55 in the Sunset regional semifinals at Durango High Thursday night.
As Eris Winder approached the free-throw line with 18 seconds left in his team’s game against Durango Tuesday, the Palo Verde senior leaned his head back and yawned for a quick moment. Winder scored 23 of his 24 points in the second half against Legacy, enabling Palo Verde to overcome an 18-point halftime deficit to win 63-59 in the first round of the Sunset Regional playoffs.
In the span of 24 hours, Palo Verde accomplished something that the majority of high school basketball teams won’t all season. The Panthers defeated two of the better teams in town despite a fourth-quarter deficit on back-to-back nights.
Thousands of high school basketball players have arrived in town this week with hopes of impressing hundreds of college coaches at various AAU tournaments. There’s one opponent in particular that all of them should want to avoid — the Las Vegas Prospects’ Darryl Gaynor. The 15-year old incoming junior at Palo Verde has transformed into a lockdown defender and rising recruit over the course of the summer.
