Check out the five players to keep an eye on from the area.

As the 2024-2025 boys basketball season gets set to tip off, here are team-by-team previews of teams from around the Herald-News coverage area.

Despite a glitch at the end, the 37th Morris Boys Shootout was once again a success

The 32-team Morris Boys Shootout will take place Tuesday and Wednesday next week

After many years of planning, breaking ground in March of 2023, then 13 months of construction, Seneca High School unveiled its new 28,000-square-foot gymnasium to the public at a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday night.

Meet the 2023-24 Herald-News All-Area Boys basketball team, featuring standouts from across the area.

The Tri-County Conference has released its 2023-24 boys basketball all-conference teams, with Seneca junior Paxton Giertz a unanimous first-team selection as well as being selected the Tri-County Conference Player of the Year.

Seneca rallied to cut a 14-point deficit down to four but couldn't complete the comeback in a loss to Riverdale in the Class 2A Hall Regional title game Friday.

Everett Willis missed two free throws but snared the rebound after the second attempt and made the putback at the buzzer to pull out a 47-45 win over Dwight in Mondays’s Class 1A Somonauk Regional quarterfinal.