Little Ten Conference Boys Basketball Tournament History

Last Update : February 1, 2013

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Opening Night

(9) Hiawatha 51, (8) LaMoille-Ohio 49

(2) Newark 59, (7) Serena 34

(3) Indian Creek 65, (6) Leland-Earlville 40

Night Two

(1) H-BR 62, (9) Hiawatha 38

(4) Paw Paw 73, (5) Somonauk 62

SEMIFINAL NIGHT

Championship Semifinals

(1) Hinckley-Big Rock 58, (4) Paw Paw 47

(3) Indian Creek 58, (2) Newark 57 (OT)

Consolation Semifinals

(5) Somonauk 79, (8) LaMoille-Ohio 47

(7) Serena 57, (6) Leland-Earlville 46

Championship Night

(1) Hinckley-Big Rock 39, (3) Indian Creek 30 (Title)

(4) Paw Paw 66, (2) Newark 64 (Third Place)

(5) Somonauk 51, (7) Serena 50 (Consolation Title)

The Little 10 is the oldest continually running high school basketball conference in Illinois and was organized during the 1919-1920 school year with Earlville, Hinckley, Leland, Paw Paw, Plano, Rollo, Sandwich, Shabbona, Somonauk and Waterman as its charter schools. A conference tournament has been an annual event every season.

Sheridan was added in 1930, but dropped in 1939 with Serena taking their place. Rollo closed in 1954. Hinckley consolidated with Big Rock in 1957 to form Hinckley-Big Rock. In 1967, Sandwich and Plano left and Newark and Malta joined. Shabbona and Waterman consolidated to form Indian Creek in 1993, thus shortening the conference to nine teams. LaMoille joined in 1996. Malta closed in 2000. Kirkland Hiawatha joined in 2006 and that same year Earlville and Leland combined athletic programs to form Leland-Earlville.

The site is an attempt to preserve the Little Ten Conference's Boys Basketball Tournament history. I have and am currently searching old newspaper clippings to help me try to recount each tournament and then writing a brief summary of what happen in that tournament, while also adding any other things that might be of interest. This is all time consuming work, but I think in the end will make for a very informative site.

Please feel free to send copies of any newspaper accounts, photos, or stories about the LTC Boys Basketball Tournament that you would like to share to the site or anything else you feel would be interesting (post season games, all-conference teams, scoring leaders).

Also if you see anything on this site (missing first names, mispelled names, stats) that you know of, feel free to let me know.

Advertise here or sponsor a page. For more details contact me at

hoxltc@aol.com

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What's New?

1939 Championship Game Box Score - Thanks Linda Hess (3-5-12)

2000 Championship/Third Place Games Story - Thanks Eric Schrader (3-2-12)

1972 All-LTC Boys Basketball Teams (2-19-12)

Added photos of Plano High School's LTC Championship Teams of 1946 and 1947 - Thanks to Linda Hess (2-19-12)

Championship Game Scores for 1921 and 1925 Tournaments <Past Champions> - Thanks to Linda Hess (2-17-12)

Photo of 1923 Earlville basketball team - LTC and District Champs (2-12-12)

Tournament scores from 1920 and 1924 tournaments - A big thank you to Linda Hess (2-11-12)

2012 Tournament, scores + championship game box score (2-4-12)

This site is a work in progress. My hope is to add information as my research and time allows.

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1930 Waterman Wolverines

LTC Champs - State Qualifier

Please get in touch with any comments or reactions to my site.

Brian Hoxsey

hoxltc@aol.com

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P.O. Box 394

Shabbona, Il 60550

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