In high school basketball, scores are settled on the weekend.

Once the final class bell rings on Friday afternoon, all attention turns to that weekend’s slate of games. Rivalries are decided. Breakout stars are born. Hearts are broken.

As teams prepare for the home stretch of their seasons, we decided to take a look at three storylines fans need to watch for this weekend, from teams across the country.

Lauren Betts prepares for swan song after special home finale

Lauren Betts, the nation’s No. 1 recruit and a Stanford commit, has three games remaining in her Grandview High School (Aurora, Colo.) career, but on Tuesday, in her final home game, she left the Wolves’ fans with a performance to remember.

Betts led Grandview to a 74-55 win over Arapahoe (Centennial, Colo.), but not before treating the crowd to a choreographed dance performance with her fellow seniors to the tune of Beyonce’s “Love on Top.”

A Senior Sendoff to remember. pic.twitter.com/12ejKhYBIS

— Grandview TV (@Grandview_TV) February 9, 2022

As impressive as Betts’ dance moves were, her legacy at Grandview will be on the court. The 6-foot-7 Betts won 2021 Gatorade Colorado Player of the Year honors as a junior, averaging 17.5 points per game and 11 rebounds per game, and has followed it up with a senior season that’s validated all of her recognition.

On Saturday, she begins her final tour as a high school phenom, when Grandview challenges conference foe Smoky Hill (Aurora, Colo.) on the road. The Wolves then finish out the regular season with games at Arapahoe and Overland (Aurora, Colo.).

New Jersey powers face off

No. 5 Saint John Vianney (Holmdel, N.J.) turned heads last weekend when it disposed of then-undefeated Saddle River Day (Saddle River, N.J.), 76-51. Two days later, the Lancers earned a 47-point win over lowly Red Bank Regional (Little Silver, N.J.). At 18-0, the program is sitting in a class of its own in New Jersey.

That could all come crashing down Sunday, however, when the Lancers play Rutgers Prep (Somerset, N.J.) in a neutral site affair. The Argonauts, winners of 15 in a row, enter the game with a 16-1 record.

Saint John Vianney, led by guard Madison St. Rose, a four-star recruit per ESPN and a Princeton commit, wraps up the regular season next weekend against top-ranked Sidwell Friends, and will want to enter that bout still undefeated. First, it needs to take care of business against Red Bank Regional.

Blackman looks to push winning streak to 40 games

The Blackman High School (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) Blaze are the class of 4A District 7, and have been for some time. The team has won 39 games in a row, dating back to last season, and will aim to keep the streak going as it begins the state tournament. Last season, Blackman won its third state championship in school history.

@LadyBlazeHoops were up 47 at the time and the bench was this invested and happy for their teammates. Joy and love for one another is what it’s all about! This team is special! #GoBlaze 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/K54PMYAH1M

— Alexander Trakas (@bhstrakas) February 8, 2022

Blackman (20-0) plays at Riverdale (6-14) in a game that is not expected to be a competitive contest. The Blaze are led by junior Emily Monson (11.6 points per game), a Purdue commit, and sophomore Kaelyn Flowers (10 points per game).

Josh Needelman is the High School Sports Editor at Just Women’s Sports. Follow him on Twitter @JoshNeedelman.

The PWHL is continuing to break records, as Sunday's 2025/26 Takeover Tour stop in Washington, DC, saw 17,228 fans pack into Capital One Arena to see the No. 2 New York Sirens top the No. 4 Montréal Victoire 2-1 — setting a new US women's hockey attendance record in the process.

The benchmark surpasses the previous US record set this past November, when the Seattle Torrent welcomed 16,014 fans to their inaugural home opener.

Sunday's DC crowd also sees the US mark inch closer to the overall professional women's hockey attendance record, set in April 2024 when 21,105 PWHL fans sold out Montréal's Bell Centre to watch the Victoire take on the Toronto Sceptres.

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"Washington, DC, showed up in such a big way, and the energy our fans brought into the arena turned this game into something truly special," PWHL EVP of business operations Amy Scheer said of the first-ever PWHL game in the nation's capital. "Moments like this capture the joy of our sport and the momentum behind the league."

The third-year league is currently racing through its best-attended month on record, drawing more than 154,000 fans across the last 16 games while averaging crowds of 8,726 across all 49 games so far this season.

The Kansas City Current delivered some concerning news this week, with the NWSL club revealing that star striker Temwa Chawinga remains sidelined with an hip adductor injury while the league's 2026 preseason gets underway.

The team currently lists the reigning back-to-back NWSL MVP under a season-ending injury (SEI) designation, a category earned after Chawinga picked up the injury in mid-October, leaving the Kansas City attacker benched for the Current's quarterfinal loss to eventual 2025 NWSL champions Gotham FC.

"It's hard because of the nature of the injury," incoming Kansas City head coach Chris Armas told The Athletic last week. "With Temwa, we've got to be very careful, but she's looking great and doing lots of good work on the return to play."

Also on the Current's SEI list is standout winger Michelle Cooper, with the 23-year-old rising USWNT star suffering a foot injury in Kansas City's final regular-season match of 2025.

"It was a little bit of a tough ending here after, honestly, an amazing historic season," said Armas. "Hopefully they are back as soon as possible, but it's still unclear."

Both Chawinga and Cooper will have some time to recover before Kansas City kicks off their 2026 NWSL regular season against the Utah Royals on March 14th — with teams allowed to lift a player's SEI status any time once the season begins.

The world's top tennis stars are rolling in Melbourne, as the first round of the 2026 Australian Open wrapped early Tuesday morning with only a few ranked seeds suffering early defeats.

World No. 15 Emma Navarro was the highest-ranked US player to fall in the first round, with the 24-year-old exiting the season's first Grand Slam in a 6-3, 3-6, 3-6 loss to Poland's No. 50 Magda Linette on Sunday.

No. 11 Ekaterina Alexandrova also stumbled in the first round, with her Melbourne run ending in a three-set loss to Turkey's No. 112 Zeynep Sönmez on Saturday before No. 68 Peyton Stearns ousted fellow US star and 2020 Australian Open champion No. 30 Sofia Kenin in straight sets on Sunday.

Many contenders still remain in the hunt, however, as the entire WTA Top 10 cruised through their opening matchups to advance to the Slam's second round.

That said, fans will miss out on one highly anticipated showdown, as wild card entry Venus Williams's first-round loss ended the 45-year-old tennis icon's path to a second-round clash with US favorite No. 3 Coco Gauff.

How to watch the second round of the 2026 Australian Open

The 2026 Australian Open continues when the Slam's second round kicks off with a Tuesday night slate that features stars like No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, No. 3 Coco Gauff, and No. 7 Jasmine Paolini.

Tuesday's action begins at 7 PM ET, with all Melbourne matches airing live across ESPN platforms.

The ongoing dominance of UConn basketball has started to break records, as the top-ranked Huskies humbled unranked Notre Dame 85-47 on Monday — keeping their perfect 2025/26 NCAA season intact.

Monday's 38-point margin of victory marked the largest in the teams' 20-year rivalry, with the win also snapping the Huskies' three-game head-to-head losing streak against the Fighting Irish.

"UConn showed why they're the best team in the country," Notre Dame head coach Niele Ivey said postgame.

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Even more, UConn sophomore forward Sarah Strong added her own individual history to Monday's tally, becoming the third-fastest Husky to reach 1,000 career points, with the 19-year-old trailing only program legends Maya Moore and Paige Bueckers — who each did so in 55 games to Strong's 59 — in the race to reach that stat.

"I would love to see if anybody has scored 1,000 points by taking less shots than she's taking," said UConn head coach Geno Auriemma. "She's so efficient."

"It means a lot to me I guess, but I wouldn't be able to do it without my teammates," Strong said after leading the Huskies with an 18-point, 11-rebound double-double on Monday night.

How to watch UConn basketball this week

UConn now returns to Big East play, with the No. 1 Huskies taking on unranked Georgetown at 7:30 PM ET on Thursday, airing live on TNT.