Game Balls Week 2: Our weekly high school hoops honor roll

December 16, 2012 in Game Balls, High School

Welcome to a new weekly feature at BallinMichigan. Every Sunday, we’ll do this ‘honor roll’ post highlighting some of the top high school performances from around the state during the [...]

BallinMichigan College Power Rankings, Week 4

December 12, 2012 in Division I, Division II, Division III, JUCO, NAIA, Power Rankings

Our weekly Division I, II, III, NAIA and JUCO power rankings, which run every Wednesday. By Patrick Hayes It’s still a little bit early for any team to be running away [...]

Video: Highlights of Kentucky commit James Young’s first game of the season for Rochester

December 10, 2012 in High School, Video

By Jay W. Jensen James Young scored 29 points in Rochester‘s season-opening win last week. Follow PrepHoopsTV on Twitter and subscribe to the YouTube channel. BallinMichigan.com runs highlight videos of high school players across [...]

Game Balls Week 1: Our weekly high school hoops honor roll

December 9, 2012 in Game Balls, High School

Welcome to a new weekly feature at BallinMichigan. Every Sunday, we’ll do this ‘honor roll’ post highlighting some of the top high school performances from around the state during the [...]

2013 Michigan Mr. Basketball Rankings: Preseason edition

December 6, 2012 in High School, Power Rankings

By Patrick Hayes The 2013 senior class in Michigan is one of the best in recent memory — so strong, in fact, that it lost two top sure Division I [...]

2012-13 Oakland County high school basketball preview

December 3, 2012 in High School

In our college basketball previews last month, we were able to take a close-up look at every college team in the state. Obviously, with mainly a staff of one right [...]

2012-13 Division I Basketball Preview: Young Western Michigan team features eight freshmen

October 26, 2012 in Division I

It’s hard to believe, but college basketball season is almost here. This week, we’ll preview Michigan’s seven Division I schools. By Patrick Hayes At a glance Coach: Steve Hawkins, 10th [...]

ESPN #NBARank – Juwan Howard, Darius Morris, Walker Russell, Alan Anderson just make the cut

August 23, 2012 in Professional

ESPN.com is doing its annual ranking of the top 500 players and incoming rookies in the NBA. You can see the experts who voted on the rankings here and follow [...]

Guide to all of the Michigan ties in the NBA Summer League

July 13, 2012 in Cover Story, Professional

By Patrick Hayes Most NBA Summer League rosters have officially been announced now, so I think it’s only right that I compile my previous efforts to report players with Michigan [...]

The Ultimate All-Area HS Basketball Roundup

April 23, 2012 in All-Area, Cover Story, High School

Editor’s Note: Virtually every newspaper covering high school basketball in the state does some variation of an all-area team. This is our best effort to compile all of those 2012 [...]