Decade’s best WPIAL finals: Boys basketball No. 1
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Wednesday, February 26, 2020 | 5:21 PM
Indiana celebrates after beating Beaver Falls in the boys Class AAA WPIAL championship Friday, Feb. 27, 2015 at Petersen Events Center.
There were a lot of changes to the WPIAL basketball championships over the last 10 years.
They expanded from two days to three days and from eight boys and girls finals to a dozen championship games. The district also switched venues, moving from the Palumbo Center at Duquesne to the Petersen Events Center on the Pitt campus.
Bigger and better has led to some fantastic championship moments over the course of the just completed decade. So as we prepare for the first finals of the 20s, here is a look back with a countdown of the top 10 WPIAL boys and girls basketball championship games from the last 10 years.
Boys No. 1 — Hoosiers
The 1986 movie Hoosiers was based on a small town Indiana school that shocked the state and won the boys basketball championship.
The 2015 WPIAL Class AAA boys basketball championship game seemed to follow the same script. A school from Indiana (Pa.) that had never won a championship going up against an established power in Beaver Falls, which won back-to-back titles in 2012-13 and was searching for its 10th district crown.
The finish had a Hollywood feel to it as well. With time winding down, the Little Indians’ Dylan Stapleton dribbled into traffic and somehow found brother Riley on the left blocks as he laid in the game winner with one second remaining in an all-time thriller.
Click below for Trib HSSN’s Chris Harlan’s recap with photos.
Girls No. 1 – Magnificent Myers
Boys No. 2 – Double dose of CV goes to double OT
Girls No. 2 – The Knights’ night
Boys No. 3 – Out of this world
Boys No. 5 – Class A cat fight
Girls No. 5 – Royal run begins
Boys No. 6 – Three-peat chopped
Girls No. 7 – Thrilling three-peat
Girls No. 8 – High flying Hawks
Tags: Beaver Falls, Indiana
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