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Don't Miss These Buzzer Beaters

December 17, 2014

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

The first full week of girls and boys basketball this season netted 27 games broadcast on MHSAA.tv – and a series of last-second heroics only hoops can provide. 

Check out those buzzer beaters below, and go to MHSAA.tv to watch any of the games listed, in full. 

Girls Basketball

  • Escanaba vs. Sault Ste. Marie
  • Lincoln Alcona vs. Alpena
  • Comstock Park vs. East Grand Rapids
  • Posen vs. Whittemore-Prescott
  • Calumet vs. Iron River West Iron County
  • Midland vs. Mount Pleasant
  • Mackinaw City vs. Boyne Falls
  • Rogers City vs. Posen
  • Hillman vs. Atlanta
  • Watervliet vs. Bangor
  • Haslett vs. Mason


Boys Basketball

  • Rogers City vs. Hale
  • Mackinaw City vs. Pellston
  • East Kentwood vs. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern
  • Escanaba vs. Negaunee
  • Plainwell vs. Portage Northern
  • Posen vs. Rogers City
  • Mancelona vs. Lake City
  • Chesaning vs. Montrose
  • Haslett vs. Mason
  • Watervliet vs. Bangor
  • Mount Pleasant vs. Midland
  • Gibraltar Carlson vs. Riverview
  • Escanaba vs. Kingsford
  • Hemlock vs. Saginaw Michigan Lutheran Seminary
  • Clare vs. Gladwin
  • Coloma vs. Dowagiac


Be the Referee: Held Ball or Traveling?

February 13, 2020

This week, MHSAA officials coordinator Sam Davis offers a basketball "You Make the Call" that comes into play when defensive and offensive players wind up in a stalemate. 

Be The Referee is a series of short messages designed to help educate people on the rules of different sports, to help them better understand the art of officiating, and to recruit officials.

Below is this week's segment - Held Ball or Traveling - Listen

Let’s try a basketball “You Make the Call” play today. The offensive player jumps in an effort to either take a shot or make a pass. The defensive player reaches out and is able to place his or her hands on the ball to keep the offensive player from releasing it, and the offensive player returns to the floor with the ball.

You Make the Call? There was no contact, so there is no foul. Is it a traveling violation, or is it a held ball with the ball going to the team with the possession arrow in its favor?

Some old-timers out there might remember that up until about 1990, a traveling violation would have been called on this play. But the rules now call for a held ball in the situation with the possession arrow, which had just been introduced five years earlier in 1985, prevailing.

Past editions

Feb. 6: Hockey Rules Chart - Listen
Jan. 30: Cheer Safety - Listen
Jan. 23: Goaltending - Listen
Jan. 16: Wrestling Tie-Breaker - Listen
Jan. 9: Pregame Meeting - Listen
Dec. 19: Alternating Possession - Listen
Dec. 12: Ratings - Listen
Dec. 5: Video Review Success - Listen
Nov. 28: More Injury Time - Listen
Nov. 21: Football Review - Listen
Nov. 14: Sideline Safety - Listen
Nov. 7: Officials Playlist - Listen
Oct. 31: Most Important Line - Listen
Oct. 24: Automatic 1st Downs - Listen
Oct. 17: Catch Momentum - Listen
Oct. 10: Golf Rules Changes - Listen
Oct. 3: No Tackle Box - Listen
Sept. 26: You Make the Overtime Call - Listen
Sept. 19: Swimming Finishing Touch - Listen
Sept. 12: Curbing Gamesmanship By Substitution - Listen
Sept. 5: Football Safety Rules Changes - Listen
Aug. 29: 40-Second Play Clock - Listen