Northern Valley/Old Tappan was the No. 6 seed heading into the 16-team North 1, Group 3 state sectional tournament. The Golden Knights are now just one of 12 girls basketball teams in New Jersey with a game left on the schedule. NVOT beat North 2 champion Chatham in Elizabeth on Wednesday night to earn a spot in Sunday's Group 3 state final against Moorestown.

We caught up with the Knights on the Victory Bus amid the postgame ride home, which included pizza and donuts. We talk to head coach Brian Dunn and seniors Sadie Murphy, Sienna Drullinsky and Nina Cauneda on a special edition of The Ballgame! powered by northjerseysports.com.

Plainfield knocked off East Orange Campus to reach the Group 4 state final on Tuesday night and not long after that Cardinals' head coach Michael Gordon joined us to talk all about it on the latest episode of The Ballgame! powered by northjerseysports.com

There is something cool happening in Rutherford where Felician University (27-3) is making its mark on Division 2 basketball. The Falcons won the outright CACC regular season title for the first time in program history, set the program record for wins in a season and tied the record for the most ever by a CACC team. They have also won the Conference Tournament and are heading to the NCAA tourney for the first time since 2022. Felician will play Adelphi in the first round in Buffalo on Saturday.

Felician's assistant coach is Brad Forestieri, who is also our co-host, so he is on the guest list and so are junior's Tristan Harcourt, a Newark native and the CACC Defensive Player of the Year, and Tayvian Pullock, a Paterson resident and third-team All-Conference selection.

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