Hoops Score Big on MHSAA.TV

March 11, 2014

The MHSAA Basketball Semifinals and Finals will have broadcast coverage on a variety of cable television, internet and radio platforms over the next two weekends.

The Girls Basketball Finals will take place Thursday through Saturday (March 13-15) at the Breslin Student Events Center in East Lansing. The Boys Finals will take place March 20-22.

The championship games will be televised live by FOX Sports Detroit. The Class D and A title games of the Girls Finals will air on FOX Sports Detroit, and the Class C and B games will be shown on FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS. FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS will carry the Finals of the Boys Tournament the following weekend.

Semifinal games will be streamed live on a subscription basis on MHSAA.TV. The Basketball coverage is part of six straight weekends of live MHSAA Championship coverage on MHSAA.TV, and online viewers can catch both weekends of action for one low cost of $14.95. A Day Pass is available for $9.95. All events will be available for free on-demand viewing by Wednesday the week following their initial live airing. 

A number of events already are available on-demand, including last weekend's Hockey, Gymnastics and Lower Peninsula Swimming and Diving Finals, and a number of Girls Basketball Regional, Boys Basketball District and Hockey Quarterfinal games listed below. The listings are followed by this week's MHSAA Perspective and MHSAA.TV highlight clips. 

Girls Basketball Regionals

  • Norway vs. L'Anse
  • St. Ignace vs. Ishpeming
  • St. Ignace vs. L'Anse

Hockey Quarterfinals

  • Farmington vs. Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood
  • Plymouth vs. Detroit Catholic Central

Boys Basketball Districts

  • Vassar vs. Saginaw Arts & Sciences Academy
  • L'Anse vs. Ironwood
  • Onaway vs. Wolverine
  • Ellsworth vs. Alba
  • East Lansing vs. Okemos
  • Haslett vs. DeWitt
  • Watervliet vs. Bridgman
  • Cedar Springs vs. Rockford
  • Montrose vs. Reese
  • Calumet vs. Hancock
  • Central Lake vs. Boyne Falls
  • Lansing Eastern vs. Lansing Everett
  • Grand Rapids Northview vs. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern
  • Vassar vs. New Lothrop
  • Hale vs. AuGres-Sims
  • Richland Gull Lake vs. Holt
  • Bellaire vs. Ellsworth
  • Calumet vs. Ironwood
  • Montrose vs. Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy
  • Rockford vs. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central
  • Gladstone vs. Escanaba
  • Atlanta vs. Fairview
  • Haslett vs. Okemos
  • Grand Ledge vs. Mason
  • Holt vs. Mason
  • Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central vs. Grand Rapids Northview
  • Saginaw Nouvel vs. Hemlock
  • New Lothrop vs. Montrose

MHSAA Perspective: This week, John Johnson talks about the value of school sports and how the values they teach surpass anything that happens in other youth sports by other sponsors - Nothing Like It

MHSAA.TV March Hits Midpoint

February 24, 2014

Nearly 300 hours of live streaming video from MHSAA Championships in Girls Competitive Cheer and Individual Wrestling, plus Student Broadcast Program produced coverage of Girls Basketball Districts and Ice Hockey Regionals, will be available on the MHSAA.TV website as the March of Winter approaches its midway point.

The coverage begins Monday with School Broadcast Programs providing on demand coverage of Girls Basketball Districts and Ice Hockey Regionals, plus the last week of the regular season in Boys Basketball. Check the MHSAA.TV website for daily schedule updates.

Live streaming this week begins at 2 p.m. on Thursday (Feb. 27) from The Palace of Auburn Hills at the Individual Wrestling Finals. A dedicated camera will be on each of 12 mats on the floor, and include full graphics to indicate the participants in each match, plus full in-progress scoring information via Trackwrestling. Girls Competitive Cheer coverage begins Friday from The DeltaPlex in Grand Rapids. 

The continued Wrestling and full Cheer coverage is part of six straight weekends of live MHSAA Championship coverage on MHSAA.TV and online viewers can catch every weekend of action for one low cost of $14.95. A Month Pass on MHSAA.TV for $14.95 will give a viewer access to events over a 30-day period from the time it is purchased.  Over the next three weekends of live winter championship coverage, the following events will be featured: 

  • ·   Ice Hockey Semifinals & Finals – March 6-8
  • ·   Girls Gymnastics Finals – March 7-8
  • ·   Lower Peninsula Boys Swimming & Diving Finals – March 8
  • ·   Girls Basketball Semifinals – March 13-14
  • ·   Boys Basketball Semifinals – March 20-21 

A Day Pass is available for $9.95.  All events will be available for free on-demand viewing by Wednesday the week following their initial live airing. 

Catch up on some of the final regular-season games for both girls basketball and hockey on MHSAA.TV as those sports move on to postseason competition this week. 

Here's a look at all listings from last week, followed by this week's MHSAA Perspective and MHSAA.TV highlight clips. 

Girls Basketball
  • East Lansing vs. St. Johns
  • Lakeview vs. White Cloud
  • AuGres-Sims vs. Posen
  • Central Lake vs. Indian River Inland Lakes
  • Cedar Springs vs. Greenville
  • Davison vs. Flint Hamady
  • Comstock Park vs. Grand Rapids Covenant Christian
  • Plainwell vs. Coloma
  • Central Lake vs. Ellsworth
  • Montrose vs. Saginaw Arts & Sciences

Hockey

  • Midland vs. Hemlock/Saginaw Swan Valley
  • Detroit Catholic Central vs. Warren DeLaSalle
  • Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood vs. Trenton
  • Boys Basketball
  • East Lansing vs. Grand Ledge
  • Cedar Springs vs. Greenville
  • Cheboygan vs. Gaylord
  • AuGres-Sims vs. Hillman
  • Central Lake vs. Ellsworth
  • Watervliet vs. Lawrence
  • Montrose vs. Saginaw Arts & Sciences
  • Petoskey vs. Alpena
  • Escanaba vs. Gladstone

MHSAA Perspective: In this week's edition, John Johnson talks about those games that are supposedly decided on their last play - The Last Play