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By BEN HOOKE

They’ll need to find some more space on the walls of Windsor High School’s gym. The Yellowjacket girls are champions again.

By TRIS WYKES

BARRE, Vt. — Windsor High girls basketball coach Kabray Rockwood descended the stairs to his team’s locker room in the basement of the Barre Auditorium on Thursday night.

By TRIS WYKES

BARRE, Vt. — The heat and humidity generated by warming spring temperatures and a couple of thousand bodies packed into the Barre Auditorium on Thursday drove a gaggle of high school basketball fans out the back door during halftime of the Oxbow-Peoples girls game.

By TRIS WYKES

BARRE, Vt. — The Thetford Academy boys basketball team did not just, as their warmup shirts read Saturday, “Journey to the Tourney.” They won the whole thing.

By TRIS WYKES

BARRE, Vt. — A frustrated White River Valley boys basketball team and its fans saw an undefeated season come to a disappointing conclusion on Thursday night, falling short of the program’s championship goals.

By TRIS WYKES

BARRE, Vt. — When Jason Gray took over as Thetford Academy’s boys basketball coach nine years ago, he had a simple message for a program that hadn’t reached the playoff quarterfinals during its four previous seasons.

By TRIS WYKES

BARRE, Vt. — The Barre Auditorium locker room door had been shut for 15 postgame minutes Wednesday when the mustachioed attendant came to officially end the Hartford High boys basketball team’s stay in the venerated, 86-year old building.

HANOVER — Ryan Cornish’s 18 points helped Dartmouth defeat Brown 78-58 on Saturday, a victory that secured the Big Green’s first invitation to the Ivy League’s postseason tournament.

By TRIS WYKES

SOUTH ROYALTON — The White River Valley High boys basketball team took in a horror film to start the season.

By JON MARKS

PRINCETON, N.J. — It was February 21, 2009. Barack Obama was just beginning his stint in the Oval Office. The Philadelphia Phillies were atop the baseball world. “Slumdog Millionaire” was about to win the Oscar for Best Picture.

By TRIS WYKES

HANOVER — The leprechaun got the last laugh on Wednesday night during Lebanon High’s 39-34 defeat of Hanover in girls basketball.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — The Stevens High girls basketball team’s game plan was simple: Put two or three defenders on Newport center Zoey Lord and let the others shoot from 3-point territory.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — The last home playoff game for the Newport High boys basketball team was a loss 11 years ago. The current version of the Tigers made it worth the wait on Tuesday night.

By TRIS WYKES

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Hartford High’s boys basketball uniforms don’t feature names on the back, which is fitting for a group of somewhat anonymous players.

By TRIS WYKES

BRADFORD, Vt. — It’s a feel-good season so far for the Oxbow High girls basketball team, which improved to 12-1 on Tuesday with a 58-34 victory over Harwood.

By BEN HOOKE

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — As a youngster, Charlotte Jasmin would come to Hartford High basketball games and stare up at the banner with the names of the five 1,000-point scorers to wear the red, white and blue.

By BEN HOOKE

HANOVER — A year after a young roster brought them to a state title game, everything is surprisingly new for the Hanover Bears boys basketball team following an ofFseason of dramatic change.

By BEN HOOKE

WINDSOR — There are so many championship banners draped on the wall of Windsor High’s gym that the excess ones have begun to spill off the wall and onto the mezzanine that surrounds the court.This year’s girls basketball team may well force them to...

By BEN HOOKE

RANDOLPH — Last year’s young Thetford Academy boys basketball team somewhat slipped under the radar en route to a state championship.Now, with another year of experience, the Panthers have a target clearly on their backs — but also the veteran resolve...

By ALEX CERVANTES

CLAREMONT — Newport High girls basketball coach Ross Dole wanted Zoey Lord to slow down. He also wanted his team to play faster.In the first of two meetings this season, Newport used a furious second-half blitz to beat Stevens, 52-28, on Friday. But...

By ALEX CERVANTES

CANAAN — The Mascoma High girls basketball team picked up its first win of the season on Tuesday, knocking off Newfound, 34-28. It was a victory that the Royals needed — even just three games into the season.Only 24 hours earlier, Mascoma was routed...