The expression that a high school hoops star "broke an opponent's ankle" is a widely expressed euphemism for a player who uses a strong move to bamboozle a defender. While that may happen any number of times in the course of a top high school game, it's rare that a defender is so confused by a crossover dribble that he actually falls down.

Yet that's exactly what happened when two of Oregon's heated rivals faced off recently, with Jesuit (Ore.) High guard Riley Wiggins crossing up an overmatched defender, who collapsed while Wiggins strolled in for an uncontested layup and foul.

The bucket was a rare high point in a surprising season of futility for Jesuit against Aloha (Ore.) High. The Warriors knocked off the six-time league champion Jesuit football team in October, and followed that up with a memorable basketball victory Tuesday, overcoming Jesuit's frantic full-court press en route to a narrow, 61-57 win.

Of course, Jesuit was forced to play the game without its biggest star,

At 20-3, Dr. Krop (Fla.) High should be preparing for a state playoff run that could very well end in a state title. Instead, the state's top-ranked Class 6A team -- and the No. 19 team in the RivalsHigh 100 -- is sitting on pins and needles, waiting to learn whether it will even be eligible because of questions surrounding its star's nationality.

According to the Miami Herald, 19-year-old Krop star Bryan Delancy, a Bahamas native, has been attending and playing for Krop on a student visa. While there are no regulations against eligible foreign players competing for Florida high school programs, those players require the submission of paperwork certifying the player's status as a visiting student.

Officials at Dr. Krop reportedly failed to file that paperwork, meaning that Delancy was technically an ineligible player, a decision which would forced Krop to forfeit all 19 games in which he played, which would end the Lightning's season before the playoffs even begin.

"It's not fair,"

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Jamar Ergas may only be 14 years old, but the teenager is already shouldering weighty expectations. With unbelievable athleticism -- he has already won a high school dunk competition despite the fact that he's an eighth grader -- and a rapidly evolving game, Ergas would get attention regardless of where he lived. Yet the fact that he hails from suburban Toronto has sent that hype into the stratosphere, with Canadian prep message boards touting him as the next great hope for hoops north of the border.

If there was any question that Ergas' athleticism is on a different level than all his competitors, save AAU teammate and fellow Canadian phenom Andrew Wiggins, just check out the 360-degree dunk he pulls out in a game in the video clip below. His AAU coach Terence Phillips told ScoutsFocus' Joe Davis that the teen is also hoping to attempt a between-the-legs slam if he gets another

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In the annals of girls high school basketball in America, no one has ever seen a game like the one that unfolded in tiny Reinbeck, Iowa, on Monday night. Just consider these final stats from Gladbrook-Reinbeck (Iowa) High's narrow victory against visiting West Marshall (Iowa) High:

Six quarters, 240 total points.

Gladbrook-Reinbeck and West Marshall set the mark in double overtime, with Gladbrook-Reinbeck winning 122-118.

According to the Marshalltown Times-Republican and Associated Press, that point total was enough to set a new national scoring record for a girls basketball game, smashing the previous record of 222 points from a 2004 game in Mississippi.

"It was the most unusual five-on-five game I've ever heard of," West Marshall head coach Fred Zeller told the Marshalltown Times-Republican. "I thought our kids handled it top-to-bottom about as good as anybody could,

A powerful former prep hoops magnate in New York who has been indicted on charges of sexual abuse in Massachusetts allegedly paid a former victim between $1,000-6,000 each month to stay silent between 1990 and 2008, a sum that eventually totaled at least $2 million.

According to the New York Daily News, Ernest Lorch made the payments to Sean McCray, under the guise that McCray was assisting Lorch with his powerful and expanding Riverside Church basketball program, an outfit that once boasted players including NBA All-Star Ron Artest -- who is pictured with Lorch above -- Chris Mullin and Mark Jackson. He resigned from his influential perch atop the program in 2002 when the Daily News reported that he was being investigated for sex abuse charges involving former players.

"I was protecting him," McCray told the Daily News. "He was buying my silence."

Equally troubling to McCray's pay-for-silence allegations are the errands that Lorch allegedly asked McCray to perform. In addition to

It's not unusual for standout high school basketball players to transfer to programs with national attention for their senior seasons. Following the lead of past stars like Michael Beasley -- not to mention more recent sensations like current Texas freshmen Tristan Thompson and Cory Joseph -- budding regional stars migrate toward programs like St. Patrick (N.J.) High and Oak Ridge (N.C.) Military Academy in increasing quantity and quality.

Yet one program may stand out in front of all the others in terms of the sheer number of prospects it has both attracted and churned out in recent years: Findlay Prep in Henderson, Nev., a basketball factory of a school geared almost single-mindedly toward creating the next generation of great NCAA and NBA players, with Thompson and Joseph its current shining examples at the collegiate level.

For all the hype surrounding the Findlay program, currently ranked No. 11 in the RivalsHigh 100, one budding star has reached out to his roots, telling longtime

The Carrington (N.D.) High wrestling team never got a shot to defend its run of three consecutive Region 2 dual tournament titles, yet the reason it missed out had nothing to do with any ineligible player or poor results. Rather, the team was foiled by an uninvited visitor on its bus to the event: A wild raccoon.

According to the Grand Forks Herald and the Associated Press, among other outlets, Carrington was getting ready to compete at the duals championship when administrators discovered the team had been exposed to the animal on the ride from Carrington to Grafton, N.D., where the event was being held. With no time to assess whether any athletes had been in direct contact with the raccoon -- or whether the animal had rabies -- school officials immediately pulled the team out of the event to ensure that it wouldn't put any other wrestlers at risk. No players were bitten or scratched by the animal, but it was unknown if the raccoon was rabid, meaning that officials couldn't ensure

The game was hardly in the balance, but that's no reason to refrain from attempting a wild buzzer beater. With that in mind, Corcoran (Calif.) High forward Marvin Lefridge spun just in front of the baseline behind his own backboard, let heave with a one-handed bomb and watched with anticipation and curiosity.

What Lefridge and the rest of a small crowd in the Kings County gym during Corcoran's victory against Strathmore (Calif.) High saw -- and which you can see for yourself below (jump to the 0:21 mark if you're impatient) -- is something they're not likely to forget anytime soon.

"At first, I was just like in shock," Lefridge told ABC station KFSN. "But then I took a couple steps and started jumping around."

The junior wasn't alone. One teammate, in particular, said he was glad that he eschewed his traditional practice of trotting to the bench as soon as a last-second heave was in the air, instead following the trajectory of Lefridge's memorable bucket.

"Normally, I don't look to