It’s Long Island’s very own version of “March Madness.” This upcoming weekend, the gymnasium at Stony Brook will be full of fans from all over Suffolk County as they cheer on their high school team playing for the Suffolk County basketball Championship games in their respective division.
Last year, the Mount Sinai boys’ basketball team won their first Suffolk County and Long Island class A championship in school history. This year the boys are back in the championship game, and they brought back their girl classmates as well! The boys are playing against a strong Kings Park team on March 7th at noon. The Mount Sinai girls’ team will play Shoreham-Wading River on Friday March 6th at 3pm.
In the class AAA large school final, Brookhaven town has a boys’ team who brought back their girls’ team as well. The William Floyd High School boys’ team gets another shot at the Suffolk large school title this year as they will take on Bay Shore this Saturday March 7th at 5pm. The two teams played each other twice already this year as they each took one game. William Floyd girls’ team joins them as they beat Ward Melville last weekend in the semifinal game to. Reach the first championship game in school history for the girls’ program. They will face off with the top seeded Walt Whitman this Friday March 6th at 8pm.
Smithtown West boys’ team has been one of the top teams on the entire island all season. They finished league play a perfect 16-0 and only lost one non-league game to Baldwin. This is a team that hoops fans have followed all over the island this season. They will face off with another powerhouse, Half Hollow Hills West. Hills finished the regular season 15-1 while having some convincing playoff wins to carve out their way to the class AAA championship game. These two high powered teams will meet at Stony Brook University this Saturday March 7th at 230pm for the Suffolk class AA title.
The winner of each game will move on to face the Nassau County winner in their respective class next weekend. Each game requires a ticket only purchased on Gofan. No tickets are sold at the door.
