Haynesville basketball

I don't think 1A HS hoops in extreme rural North LA is very good. It's no like football at all.

If they have even one athlete on the team, they can dominate that level.

It's also crazy the difference now in Arkansas HS hoops vs LA HS bakaetball. That border area has loads of college prospects in basketball every year in Ark, and LA doesnt have much at all.

South La, especially in the lower divisions, has been much better than north La in the last 20 years.

Country Day, Newman, Christian Life, Riverside/Reserve Christian, and Dunham, Crescent City have all had high level SEC/NBA talent at one point or another.

I do know Cavalry has been good the last few years.

i hunt up there and it is absoultely dead with regars to population. No money up there anymore with oil leaving, factories dried up. Only thing is tree logging and long haul trucking

To answer your question simply, they are nowhere near the power in basketball that they are in football. Washington plays, but is no star or anything. Good small high school player, but just an athlete. Look at the teams they’ve played…pretty weak start to the schedule.

Haynesville has a 6’5 player (OT in football), a 6’7” player (TE in football), Washington who’s a solid 6’3” and obviously an incredible athlete…plus a few more athletes. But they’re football players, not basketball players. They will out-size and out-athlete people until they run into some actual basketball players then they will get beat.


The 8 teams they’ve beat are 36-104 combined with the only team to have a winning record being 17-4 Darbonne Woods.