By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com Last season didn’t end with a championship or even a loss for the Thomas Jefferson girls basketball team. The COVID-19 pandemic was to blame for that. After sufferin...

By JEREMY TEPPER MVI Sports At Thomas Jefferson, the beginning of basketball season is often filled with growing pains, as the football season ends and those players filter in without much practice. L...

By JEREMY TEPPER MVI Sports It was an up-and-down season for Leslie McPherson in her first year as the South Allegheny girls basketball coach, but the end result was a marked improvement. The Gladiato...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com The South Allegheny boys basketball team knows they have a large target on their backs. Returning everyone from a 24-3 team that reached the WPIAL semifinals, the ...

By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports A new direction for Serra is underway as the Eagles feature a fairly inexperienced team led by a first-year coach. A.J. Corso, who served as an assistant in the program a few...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com When Rayna Andrews graduated from Serra Catholic, a significant amount of offensive production walked out the door with her. Andrews, last year’s Mon Valley Independ...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com Eugene Wilson embraces the challenge of building all-around basketball players. “I feel like if you’re a specialist, you’re good for one system and probably one syst...

By ADAM BREWER MVI Sports It’s a new era for Ringgold girls basketball, but it got off to a rocky start for first-year coach Matt Regula as all Rams’ athletics were temporarily paused due to the pande...

By DEAN DELLAMALVA JR. MVI Sports After seven losing seasons, Monessen girls basketball finally got back to its winning ways last season. The success can be traced to a group of seniors who steadily i...

By DEAN DELLAMALVA JR. MVI Sports The 2020 boys basketball season will look different for Monessen for reasons beyond the pandemic. The Greyhounds are moving up to Section 4-2A along with former Secti...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com Entering his 16th season as McKeesport’s girls basketball coach, Eric Smith admits there are some unknowns. He isn’t exactly sure what to expect from a team filled w...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com The McKeesport boys return four starters this season, but the larger story for the Tigers is who isn’t there. Deamontae Diggs has moved on to Youngstown State, lea...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com There’s no denying expectations are high for the Frazier boys basketball team. Returning to Class 2A after spending two seasons in 3A gives fourth-year head coach ...

By ADAM BREWER MVI Sports Over the last decade, the Frazier girls basketball team has been one of the most consistent and under-rated programs in the Mon Valley. In coach Winston Shaulis’ first year o...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com The roster doesn’t look the way Matt Loftis thought it would, but the third-year Elizabeth Forward boys head coach is enthusiastic about what this season could hol...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com Without a doubt, things are different this season in the high school basketball world. That’s going to show up on the court this season for the Elizabeth Forward g...

By DEAN DELLAMALVA JR. MVI Sports It has been five years since the Clairton girls basketball team hit rock bottom. The 2015-16 hoops season saw the Bears go 0-22, ending a three-year stretch with just...

By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports As ninth-year Clairton boys basketball coach Matt Geletko welcomed his 2020-21 squad to practice, there was good news and bad news. The good news is that since the school’s f...

By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports In the world of college coaching, the third year on the job is considered to be the one that shows what a coach is made of. That’s because the team will predominately be fill...

By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports When Bill Wiltz is asked to assess his Charleroi boys basketball team going into the 2020-21 season, his first reaction is laughter. That’s followed very closely by a shrug o...