Here is the schedule for Championship Sunday. We have a lot of games for a lot of Division championships, but not all of Sunday's games are title games. A couple of them involve teams to whom I owed games for, shall we say, bookkeeping reasons. On Monday, the venue will start refinishing the floors. That usually takes a few days, but just in case, we are taking the 16th off and will begin our Fall 2026 season on August 23rd. If you're interested in entering a team for next season, please let me know pretty soon. Thanks.


Rob's Court (Mountain)

Tom's Court (TMC)

Skippy's Court
(Christina-Taylor Green)

COURT FOUR

This Week's Byes

•4T7    •5 Star    •520 Personal Training    •Air Ballers    •Air Jesus    •Anybody Can    •APEX    •Area 520    •Average Joes    •AZ Knights    •Bandits    •Bantu Bandits    •Big Steppas    •Black Mambas    •Blue Coconuts    •Bricklayers Anonymous    •Bron For All    •Brotherhood    •Buzz Boyz    •CDO Uncs    •Cemented    •Cool Arrows    •Coolagains    •Crashouts    •Crossroads    •Dad Bods    •Doomsday    •Drizzling Twos    •DyinBreed    •Equipo    •Fleet    •Foolay    •Frosty Hesson    •Gila Monsters    •Girl Dads    •Good Guys    •Green Beans    •Ham    •Heat Check    •Hickory    •Hoop Hooligans    •Icy Hots    •JAK    •KP BallerZ    •La Tuza    •Let Us Win    •Lobos    •Local 3    •Logo Launchers    •Los Chivos    •Los Suns    •Los Toxicos    •Mambas    •Mansfield Ballers    •Maze Runners    •Midday Buckets    •Moon Skippers    •NOVA    •Omega    •Outlawz    •Paper Route Hoopers    •Phantomz    •Rainbow Drillers    •Reapers    •Rogue 1    •Rogue Sharks    •Saints    •SAMB    •Serpientes    •Shoot Your Shot    •Side Loaders    •Sikhos    •Skoden    •Souly Boyz    •Splash Pad    •Starr Pass Ballers    •Storm    •Strikers    •Swoosh    •Team UGLY    •The Avengers    •The Boys    •The Fam    •The Fam    •The Heat    •The Other Guys    •The Show    •The Suns    •The Truth    •The Vets    •Tio Drews    •TR3 6IXERS    •Tucson Product    •Tucson Warriors    •Underdogs    •Wicked    •Wolves    •Young Bucks    •YSL    •Z Fighters    •Zona    •[Enter Team Name Here]    

A Day of Championships

August 10th, 2026

Well, the 102nd season of the Tucson Basketball League is in the books, having culminated in a full day of Division Championship games. As usual, there was plenty of drama to go around. We had a game where one team held a seemingly comfortable 12-point lead with just over three minutes left. The trailing team then scored 12 straight points to tie the game with about 10 seconds left, only to have their opponents awaken from their offensive slumber and hit a game-winner at the buzzer. In another game, a team was trailing by a point with a few seconds left. They had a free throw that would have tied the game and sent it into overtime. The guy missed the free throw but one of his teammates grabbed the offensive rebound. Then, in an excruciating final six seconds (for both teams), there was a sequence of missed shot-another offensive rebound-another missed shot-buzzer. It just wasn't meant to be.

In what might have been the best game of the day, a brief loss of self-control proved devastating for one team. The game pitted a very-talented AZ Knights squad against Fleet, a team with several players who have been in the League for a quarter-century. Fleet features the triumvirate of Jeff Clark, Mikal Kidd, and Sam Okougbo--three stars on the incredible Pueblo High team back around the turn of the century. Okougbo is out briefly after having had meniscus surgery, but with Guero Paredes, Wendell Townsend, and Santi Meza all contributing, Fleet put on a brilliant display of Old Man Basketball--smart, determined, fluid (although the fluid has become a tad more viscous over time).

The Knights came out on fire, hitting six threes in the first seven minutes while taking a double-digit lead. Fleet chipped away for the rest of the first half, finally cutting the lead to four at halftime. But, the Knights wouldn't fold. Every time Fleet made a run, the Knights would hit a big three or get a stop on defense. Throughout the second half, the Knights clung to the lead. They'd be up five, then two, then four, then seven, then five, then three. It was really exciting. Then, with just a few minutes left, a member of the Knights lost his cool. He shoved somebody, then tossed the ball at an opponent. (He didn't chuck it, but it was definitely intentional.) In the TBL, we actually give very few technical fouls, but those acts were overt and uncalled-for. That was Technical #1 and Technical # 2 and bye-bye to that guy.

Away went the Knights' momentum, then the lead, and then the chance to win the Championship. Fleet hit some free throws down the stretch and hung on for a 63-59 victory. If we gave out a Championship trophy, I'm sure it would look nice in the Fleet guys' nursing home. But, they get Championship T-shirts just like everybody else.

In other games:

--Good Guys withstood a furious rally from Mambas to win, 67-65.

--In the latest chapter in their long-running rivalry, Frosty Hesson got by Hickory, 57-52.

--520 Personal Training beat YSL, 71-65, and Icy Hots slipped past Outlawz, 38-32, in a defensive battle. 

The venue is taking the next week to resurface its wonderful courts, so there will be no action next Sunday, August 16th. The Fall 2026 season of the Tucson Basketball League will have a staggered opening on August 23rd and the 30th, then continue on until the end of the playoffs in early December. I want to thank everyone--refs, scorekeepers, facility staff, and, of course the players--for another great season. 

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