Peoria High's Kayden Turner and Nigel Moore, plus East Peoria's Jackson Ahrens and Kingston Weatherspoon helped their teams start the playoffs on the right foot.

Fully healthy for the first time in a while, Metamora defeated Dunlap for the first time this season in Wednesday's regional semifinal.

Manual and Bloomington Central Catholic survived upset bids and will play for the Class 2A Tri-Valley Regional title.

Over a dozen boy basketball teams in the area moved on to Friday's regional championship games

Bloomington Central Catholic's Keshaun Manney and Canton's Chloe Hedges won CSM Winter Athletes of the Week, read more on their big performances and get to know them here.

Manual and Morton earned the highest rankings out of the six Central Illinois teams in the final AP boys basketball rankings of the season.