Another great year of hoops here at The Southern Illinois Classic. Looking forward to next year!

I saw two girls teams play each other in December at Southern Illinois Classic Shootout Series. It was a good game. Both have won Sectional titles and will be playing in Supersectionals on Monday. Congrats Alton Girls Basketball in Class 4A and Lady Irish Basketball in Class 2A. Go get em young ladies.

U City’s highlights from our event last weekend. University City Basketball
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Madison highlights from our event last weekend Madison CUSD #12 Athletics GetBucketsEntertainment

Game 2 Final CBC Basketball 75 University City Basketball 63

Game 2 MVP goes to Terron Garrett of CBC Basketball

Jamerion Skinner with the player of the game for Madison CUSD #12 Athletics

What a shot by Kipp’s Carl Johnson, to go into overtime despite being down 16 points.

Final. OT.
Madison (12-11) holds on for a 61-59 win over KIPP.
Skinner ends up with 31 for the Trojans, while KIPP's Jones scores a career-high 37 points for the Wolves

Jones' 3 pointer comes up empty and Johnson's put back rims out

Madison's Skinner has scored all six points in the OT period.
KIPP's Jones has scored all four points.
Trojans up 61-59 with 42.6 seconds left in overtime

BOOM!
KIPP's Johnson finds nothing but net to force overtime.
The Wolves trailed by as many as 18 in the second half and have scrapped and clawed their way all the way back to force a 55-55 tie at the end of regulation

Madison turns it over.
KIPP ball with 6.3 seconds left in regulation with a chance to tie it up down 55-52

Madison clinging to a 55-52 lead with 14.6 seconds left in regulation.
Trojans to inbound out of the timeout.

KIPP's Jones has 33 points. It's his fifth game this season where he's topped 30 points.
1:09 left with Madison up 53-50

KIPP's charge hasn't lost any steam.
The Wolves have cut it to 52-50 with 1:30 left in regulation

KIPP has closed the gap to 49-43 with 3 minutes left in regulation

Madison takes a 45-32 lead over KIPP to the final frame

KIPP has trimmed a Madison lead that was as large as 18 points to 11 points with less than a minute to go in the third quarter

Madison takes a 35-18 lead over KIPP to the break.
Trojans were 8-for-12 from three-point range. Skinner had 16 first-half points while teammate Williams had 15 points for Madison.
Jones was held to just nine points for the Wolves