Basketball Finals Tickets On Sale

March 6, 2013

Tickets for the Michigan High School Athletic Association Girls and Boys Basketball Finals are on sale now from the Breslin Center Ticket Office.

Both can be ordered online by clicking the Breslin Center Ticket Office link on either the “Girls Basketball” or “Boys Basketball” pages at the MHSAA Web Site. They also can be ordered over the phone by calling (800) 968-2737.

Girls Semifinals tickets cost $8 per session, with a $3 service charge then applied to each order, and all-Finals tickets cost $20 with the $3 service charge then applied (only one service charge is applied if Semifinals and Finals tickets are purchased together). All girls basketball tickets are for general admission. The Girls Basketball Semifinals are March 14-15, with all Four Finals on March 16.

Boys Semifinals tickets also cost $8 per session plus the $3 service charge, and all-Finals tickets are $20 plus the service charge. Boys Basketball Semifinals and Finals tickets are reserved in Breslin Center’s lower bowl, with general admission for the upper deck. The Boys Basketball Semifinals are March 21-22, with all four Finals on March 23.

For both the Girls and Boys Semifinals, each session includes both games for one class. The all-Finals tickets are good for attendance of all four championship games.

With HOF Induction, Roberts Again Emphasizes Value & Values of School Sports

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

July 14, 2022

Longtime and now-retired MHSAA executive director John E. "Jack" Roberts was inducted into the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Hall of Fame on July 1, 2022 shining a light on high life's work of promoting, supporting and providing a valued national voice on education athletics during 32 years in that role from 1986 until his retirement in 2018. 

Roberts was one of 12 honorees inducted during the NFHS summer meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

Roberts began his career serving as an assistant director for the National Federation from 1973-80. He was involved with the implementation of Title IX at the local and state levels and made immense contributions as the NFHS representative to the landmark Amateur Sports Act of 1978, and also played a significant role in the NFHS rules-writing process as the organization started writing and publishing rules for a number of new sports during the 1970s.

At the time of his retirement, Roberts was the nation’s longest-serving executive director of a state high school athletic association. He was the fourth person to serve the MHSAA in that leadership role full time, following Charles E. Forsythe (1931-42, 1945-68), Allen W. Bush (1968-78) and Vern L. Norris (1978-86). 

Roberts also followed in the footsteps of his late father, John Roberts, who served as executive director of the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association from 1957-85 and was inducted into the National High School Hall of Fame in 2000. They are the first father-son team in the Hall of Fame.

The video above was shown as an introduction before Roberts was awarded his Hall of Fame plaque and medal during the induction ceremony. In the photo below, Roberts stands with current MHSAA executive director Mark Uyl.