2012 WIAA Boys State Basketball Tournament
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012 -- 12:55 PM
Only one team returns from the 2011 tournament field in the WIAA State Boys Basketball Championships.Five schools are making their first tournament trip -- DeForest, Lodi, McDonell Central, Racine Lutheran, and Sheboygan Area Lutheran. And several of the teams are making it back to state after many, many years of being absent from the tournament -- Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau - 1960 and Colfax 1978.
Randolph has won nine State championships, the most titles won by any member school. Beloit has won seven championships with Milwaukee King, Milwaukee Vincent, Milwaukee Lincoln and Racine St. Catherine?s each having won five. There have been 104 different schools that have won championships.
The State Tournament will be televised live in our area on WAOW-TV channel 9 in Wausau, WXOW-TV channel 19 in La Crosse, and WQOW-TV channel 18 in Eau Claire. The championships will also be streamed on the statewide network station Web sites.
Feel free to contact us with questions and/or comments.