"Every week we’re practicing and making ourselves better and just communicating with each other, trying to make ourselves better."

Clark is excited about remaking his alma mater in his image and meeting the expectations that come with rebuilding a roster that is coming off the end of one of its better runs in recent memory.

The Golden Knights have focused on conditioning and building chemistry in the offseason. Falcone emphasized the importance of competing every night in a tough Ches-Mont American division.

Wednesday night, Possenti’s defensive efforts went a long way as the Bears put together a huge second half in an 80-52 win at Haverford College to open Centennial Conference play.

Every one of the 11 Merion Mercy players that Shanette Lee deployed on Wednesday night made an impact in a 41-34 victory over Pope John Paul II.

Charlotte Aldridge equaled a career-best 25 points and led the Cougars to a season-opening 61-27 victory at Phoenixville Wednesday night.

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Their vice-grip, full-court defense can void the size difference Chester will probably face each game. The Clippers’ ability to force turnovers into instant offense is still vital to Chester basketball.

"It’s definitely a goal to get to all three — Ches-Mont, district, and state playoffs," Listrani said. "But we’ll be taking it step by step."

On the court, the Monarchs will be playing with pace as they lean into a guard-heavy lineup that could excel in a more up-and-down and open floor game. As a group, they’ll be looking to pace their development as an underclassmen-heavy group figures some things out behind its leaders.

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New West Catholic coach James Lewis received his first Burrs' victory, thanks to the play of Nyiere Farlow.

It took a half to get there in Tuesday’s season opener, but Tennent played like a team with an expectation it would win in a 52-37 victory at CB South.

Pennsbury girls beat Abington 62-26 in the season opener for both teams; Abington boys defeated Bensalem 67-51.

We've got your 12/2 High School Roundup featuring results from across the Delaware Valley.

"Whatever my team needs from me in the moment." Archbishop Carroll senior Bridget Grant nailed a go-ahead 3-point shot with three seconds left as Archbishop Carroll downed Notre Dame, 49-48, to open its season.

“We may not be the tallest or most talented team,’’ said new coach Ryan Fitzpatrick. “But we’re going to play hard, together, for 32 minutes.’’

If it all comes together, Gwynedd Mercy wants to be a team nobody is eager to play against come February and March.

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After a record-setting 2024-25 season that saw Upper Moreland reach heights never before achieved in program history, the Golden Bears are aiming to maintain that level of success.

Wood will start the year a very new team but if things go well, the Vikings could also finish the year a different team but still where they always expect to be.

Head coach Isaiah Thomas, going into his 17th year with the program, has built the Warriors into a team that’s regularly in the top half of the Public League’s ‘A’ Division.

Villanova secured their place in the Big 5 Classic championship on Monday with a second-half surge that produced a 74-56 victory over Temple at Finneran Pavilion before a crowd of 6,501.

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The experience on the squad will come from D’Angelo, Puleo and Bowman. D’Angelo knows she will be looked at to lead on and off the court. It’s a challenge she’s ready to tackle head on.

"Because of our lack of size, we embrace the speed angle and have a lot of guys who can handle the basketball. … We want effort on defense and to share the ball on offense. I have been lucky enough to have talented kids who can do that."

With five underclassmen - three of them guards from Jersey - taking charge in the fourth quarter, West Chester rallied past host Jefferson in an all-Rams affair 58-54 Sunday afternoon.

The Hawks’ late defensive effort was enough to survive the Dragons 57-55 in a vintage Big 5 game Saturday at Hagan Arena.

The 2025-2026 high school season got underway at Archbishop Ryan on Saturday, with three Philly teams taking on three New York teams in the All City Classic Philly vs. New York showcase.

Playing just like the battle-tested group they are, the Upper Dublin boys responded down the stretch, getting a clutch 3-pointer and foul shots from Bazemore in the closing minutes to top the Prep, 44-39, in the season opener for both teams.

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For the first time in two years, the immense expectations that come with donning the black and gold emblazoned “Neumann” across the front have officially returned.

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The West Chester Henderson boys basketball team didn’t like the way last season ended without a berth in the postseason. So much that the Warriors never really had an offseason.

Now that we’ve gotten enough of a sample size of the city’s six Division I programs, we've got some Power Rankings to highlight who’s off to a great start and who has some work to do.

With the Big 5 taking a couple days off for the Thanksgiving holiday, this seemed like as good a time as any to do an early-season Big 5 Power Rankings.

Vianna Kanyamiheto-Watson scored nine of her 18 points in the fourth quarter as Swarthmore won its second straight, downing host Gwynedd Mercy 75-58.

Villanova's Denise Dillon has been rotating several young players in her top-10 rotation and sometimes it translates into games like Tuesday night, when the Wildcats scrapped and clawed their way by a very feisty La Salle team, 66-54, on Tuesday night at La Salle’s John E. Glaser Arena.

The Blue Devils will be fast, athletic, experienced, and will have some depth.

When a group has been together as long as the Cougars’ core has, the individuals tend to start learning each other’s tendencies and eventually, finishing each other’s sentences.

Chemistry. It’s the secret sauce that senior Mizan Shell and company hope will drive a successful 2025-26 season; in her words, she’s never seen a team that has more of it.

The 2025-26 version of the Patriots are primed to change its Del-Val League title drought. They feel that they have the right mix of returning players, the talent and the leadership to do it. What they also have—that no one else in the Del-Val has this season—is size.

For the Colonials to get back to the top of the mountaintop they will need grit and perseverance, something both coach Dan Dougherty and top player McKenna Winland mentioned in preseason interviews.

In St. Joseph's 74-53 Big 5 win over Penn on Monday night at the Palestra, Aleah Snead finished with 18 points, 11 rebounds, eight assists, five steals and two blocks.

In an 87-77 win over Penn State-Abington, Neumann won its third in a row and the Knights continued to pick up some momentum early in the season. The win lifted the Neumann men over .500 at 4-3, giving them something to feel good about with the conference season a handful of games away.

Villanova outscored Temple 31-11 in the second quarter on the way to a 88-58 Big 5 victory over Temple.

La Salle had three players in double figures as the Explorers rode a strong second half to a 72-61 win over visiting American University at John E Glaser Arena.

An 84-68 win over Drexel on Friday night at the Daskalakis Athletic Center has Penn in the Big 5 championship game on Dec. 6. It’s the first time in three years of the new Big 5 format that the Quakers will get a chance to play for the title.