Here's how Hunter Huss boys basketball is managing lofty expectations

Despite taking an abnormally early position on the basketball calendar, little else about the Hunter Huss hoop team’s Dec. 12 meeting with rival Ashbrook felt out of the ordinary to coach Troy Phillips. “It felt like January, February; that’s what it felt like. Any time we play those guys, it always has the feeling as if we’re playing for all the marbles,” Troy Phillips said. “It was electric in the building, the kids were ready to go. It’s the city rivalry, these kids have been playing with and against each other much of their lives.” Withstanding a...