The Throne high school girls basketball tournament: Top storylines, players to watch

The Throne high school girls basketball tournament: Top storylines, players to watch originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The 2025-26 high school basketball season is nearly through.

But some of the most exciting action of the season has been saved for last. As usual, one of the final events of the season is The Throne National Championship, a three-day event put on by the NBPA featuring of eight of the top teams in the country on both the boys' and girls' sides. WATCH The Throne: Schedule, channels, streaming The games will be played on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday (Mar.

19-21) at American Dream in the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey. As The Throne games aren't NFHS-sanctioned, don't count towards teams' official records in the books, and don't even there are understandably differing opinions about whether or not the games should count towards ranking, for players' all-state and all-American cases, etc. In girls basketball, The Throne results have been included and played a major role in deciding the national champion in multiple outlets' national rankings since the event began in 2023.

No matter where you stand on it, one thing is for sure – basketball fans from all over will be tuning in to watch a handful of the nation's top high school basketball teams and players go at it for a championship that will long remembered by the victors and plenty of hoops fanatics. Here's what we're watching for this week on the girls' side of The Throne 2026 regarding storylines, players to watch, and potential rematches from earlier in the season. Top Storylines Princess Anne looks to complete perfect season Ranked third in the country , Princess Anne is in the national championship discussion after going undefeated for the second season in a row.