In a previous Throwback Thursday post, we highlighted the process that gave us the boys’ basketball state tournament in 1966, but who was the first boys’ state tournament winning team during the winter of 1967? Eight teams began the first DSSAA ever (now DIAA) state tournament on Monday March 13th at four neutral sites – … Continue reading Throwback Thursday – 1967 Boys’ Basketball State Tournament
Throwback Thursday – 1973 Girls Basketball State Tournament
After quickly agreeing to hold a girls’ state basketball tournament during the fall of 1972, the very first Delaware high school girls’ basketball champion was crowned the following March, starting off with eight teams in the tournament and ending with one winner. The first round took place on February 26 with four games at … Continue reading Throwback Thursday – 1973 Girls Basketball State Tournament
Throwback Thursday – The girls get their tournament
The November 17, 1972 edition of the News Journal announcing the girls' basketball tournament By Chris Stevens, Editor If you recall our first Throwback Thursday post, we shared how the Delaware high school boys’ basketball tournament came to be, but what about the girls? Well, the boys’ tournament was already six years deep by the … Continue reading Throwback Thursday – The girls get their tournament
Throwback Thursday – How the State Tournament was born
News Journal report of the birth of the state tournament, evening edition 5/20/66 By Chris Stevens, Editor Delaware is indeed the First State, but they may be the last to have a single class tournament, as 24 teams in both the boys and girls ranks, have a chance to call themselves the one and only … Continue reading Throwback Thursday – How the State Tournament was born
