Jeff Hart

Trey Thompkins scored 26 points as the Georgia men's basketball team fought off Eastern Kentucky 64-57 on Friday in front of 5,645 fans at Stegeman Coliseum.

The Brenau basketball team ran its season record to 8-1 Thursday night with a 75-72 overtime win over Blue Mountain, MS in the Belhaven Classic.

While it may be the only time Region 8-AAA powers North Hall and West Hall are scheduled to meet this season, don

Stanford really does have UConn's number. Top-ranked Connecticut's record 90-game winning streak in women's basketball ended Thursday night when No. 9 Stanford outplayed the Huskies from the start in a 71-59 victory at Maples Pavilion - where the Cardinal have their own streak going.

Casey Barth kicked a 23-yard field goal in the second overtime to send North Carolina past Tennessee 30-27 in a game that will be remembered much more for the crazy finish of regulation than how it ended Thursday night.

Jake Locker ended his college career with a win that has the Washington Huskies headed back to respectability.

Johnson let an early slip away against Class AAAA Forsyth Central and the Lady Bulldogs pulled away for a 57-44 win in the championship game of the JHS Holiday Shootout at Johnson High School.

With the Region 8-AAA subregion schedule fast approaching, both the North Hall and West Hall girls basketball teams came into Thursday

Johnson claimed third place in the JHS Holiday Shootout whipping North Forsyth 64-49 at the Johnson gym Thursday.

Flowery Branch finished eighth in the Jared Cook Holiday Tournament at North Gwinnett High School after dropping a heartbreaker to Winder-Barrow, 46-44, Thursday.