Basketball - SDPB State Championship Coverage

The 2025 SDHSAA state boys basketball tournaments wrapped up from Rapid City (AA), Sioux Falls (A), and Aberdeen (B) on Saturday. Brandon Valley, Sioux Falls Christian, and Castlewood won state championships.

For the first time since 2001, Castlewood has won a state boys basketball championship. The Warriors defeated Viborg-Hurley 52-31on Saturday night in Aberdeen to claim the title.

There are more than 180 high schools in South Dakota. We asked the Mitchel Kernel student section at the Class AA Tournament if they could name some of those high schools and their mascots.

Sioux Falls Christian are wearing special T-shirts this weekend at the state tournament to support 2nd grader Forrest Murphy. Forrest is battling a rare and aggressive form of cancer, Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma.

Get pumped! It's game day at the 2025 Boys State Basketball Tournaments.

He was once the all-time winningest boy's basketball coach in South Dakota. He spent 34 years coaching at Parker High School. Gayle Hoover joins Craig Mattick on this edition of In Play.