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
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Watch Spring Finals on Comcast
June 7, 2013
Arrangements have been finalized to have MHSAA spring tournament finals in baseball, lacrosse, soccer and softball shown on a delayed basis on Comcast Channel 900.
The package starts with the airing of Saturday’s (June 8) Lacrosse Finals. The Boys Finals will be shown on Tuesday, with the Division 1 match-up of defending champion Birmingham Brother Rice and Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern/Eastern at 7 p.m. followed at 9:30 p.m. by the Division 2 title tilt between defending champion Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central and Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood. An encore presentation is set for June 15 in the same time slots.
The Girls Lacrosse Finals will debut on Wednesday at 7 p.m., with Rockford facing Bloomfield United in the Division 1 championship followed at 9:30 p.m. by the Division 2 finale pitting defending champion East Grand Rapids against Livonia Ladywood. Those games will get a second airing on June 16, with Division 1 at 3 p.m. and Division 2 at 6 p.m.
The Lacrosse Finals will be available on the Internet Saturday with live dedicated video (MHSAA.tv) and audio (MHSAANetwork.com) streams of the championship games at East Grand Rapids and Rockford. Here’s the complete live schedule:
Boys Lacrosse at East Grand Rapids
2 p.m. – Division 1 – Birmingham Brother Rice vs. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern/Eastern
4:30 p.m. – Division 2 – Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central vs. Bloomfield Hills Cranbroo-Kingswood
Girls Lacrosse at Rockford
2 p.m. – Division 2 – East Grand Rapids vs. Livonia Ladywood
4:30 p.m. – Division 1 – Rockford vs. Bloomfield United
Next weekend, MHSAA Network coverage will include live streaming audio of the Semifinals and Finals in baseball and softball and live streaming video of the Finals in both of those sports as well as girls soccer. All of the video also will be shown on Comcast Channel 900. The complete schedule can be found on the MHSAA Website.