About two years ago I wrote on a blog about a Golden Era of Boys Basketball talking about some of the top talent in the state has. In that blog we mention many players including former Gator Basketball player Nick Calathes, current Gator players Kenny Boynton, and Chandler Parsons.

Built as the most anticipated finals match-up in the championship brackets, the Jacksonville Arlington Country Day Apaches played against the Orlando Christian Prep Warriors for the1A state championship. With seven state championships between the two teams over the past seven years, the Orlando Christian Prep Warriors were able to hold off a late charge by ACD to win the 1A state title.

The 2010 boys basketball state championships started Wednesday in Lakeland. Here is the recap of the Class 1A semifinals.

At the end of the 2009 basketball season, the South Broward Bulldogs were in prime position to be one of the best teams if not the best team in the state of Florida. They had their entire team returning and were poised to make a state title run.

With the Girls Basketball season over and state champions crowned, Florida Prospects releases our Florida Prospects Girls Basketball Teams.

Saturday night’s game between St. Petersburg Lakewood and Ft. Myers Green Wave was built as the top match-up in the Tampa Bay Area. With both teams vying for a spot in the state’s final four, the game lived up to its billing.

It wasn’t pretty or the type of game Miami Norland Lady Vikings is accustomed to playing but at the end of the day the Lady Vikings got the same result, a victory and another state championship defeating Pensacola 43-38 in overtime for the 4A state championship.

The Boca Ciega Lady Pirates jumped out to an early 9-0 lead against the Dillard Lady Panthers in the 5A title game causing the Panthers to call a time-out. After the time-out the Panthers woke up led by senior Dawn Maye as they defeated the Lady Pirates 53-44 to win the 5A state championship.

The 5A State Finals features two of the best teams in the state. Here is are preview of the game.

The Rock Lions came into the class 1A state final looking to win the first state Girls Basketball Title in the Gainesville area since 1997. The Lions had to wait until the final second of the game to accomplish their goal defeating the Hollywood Christian Eagles 51-48.

The 3A State Finals features two of the best teams in the state. Here is are preview of the game.

The 1A State Finals features two of the best teams in the state. Here is are preview of the game.

Today marked the first day of the Girls Basketball state championships in Lakeland. Here is a recap of the first day.

FEBRUARY is defined as a month of heartaches, tears, drained emotions, and uncompleted tasks. Additionally, it’s a month of joy, relief, cheerfulness, and high spirits. Each team competing in the State Finals, will have an opportunity to define it’s own FEBRUARY, this week.

The 2011 Florida Football class is shaping up to be one of the best classes throughout the nation. The class bolsters several players who will be highly ranked nationally with potentially the top player in the nation. Today Florida Prospects releases our Football Watch list for the class of 2011.

Playing in front of a capacity crowd of close to 2000 people, which included Duke University Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski, Winter Park junior guard Austin Rivers put on a scoring exhibition leading his team to a 83-60 victory over Winter Springs.

Jacksonville Arlington Country Day Forward John Brown is your basic case of Rags to Riches story. A relatively unknown player coming into his junior year, Brown has become one of the best players in the state and is a major reason why many feel Jacksonville ACD will win their sixth consecutive state title.

In a match-up between county powers Boca Ciega held on to defeat the Clearwater Lady Tornadoes 54-53 in an overtime victory to advance to the Regional finals.

Orlando Dr. Phillips came into Tuesday night Regional semifinals game looking to advance to its school first regional final since 1992 and to avenge their only defeat of the season against the Apopka Lady Blue Darters.

Winter Springs basketball program has been one of the most dominant programs in the Central Florida area over the past four years. With three district titles and four playoff appearances, the Bears are one of the favorites to contend for a state title this year. One big reason for their success has been the play of senior forward Luis Jacobo.

Spoto opened the game with the first basket but then it was all downhill after that as St. Petersburg Lakewood’s offense was on cruise control, beating the Spartans 72-37 in the opening round of the 4A girls basketball championship.

The 2010 recruiting class out of The State of Florida may go down as one of the best ever if even a few of the highly touted recruits pan out. There are several interesting signees for both in and out of state programs we believe that one of them may take a program to heights that it has yet to attain. Here's our lists of Impact freshmen these are not just guys who we feel may start at some point next year. These are kids that we feel will be difference makers in the win column for the programs fortunate enough to acquire there services.

After losing their first game of the year in the district finals to Apopka, the Lady Panthers of Orlando Dr. Phillips was ready to get back on the court and start a new winning streak. It didn’t take them long to start the streak as they easily defeated the Vero Beach Lady Indians 59-34 in the first round of the 6A state playoffs.

The Third Annual Dante Anderson Invitational at Gainesville Eastside High School on Saturday January 2, 2010, is loaded with a talented field of some of the top teams in the state.