TALIAH SCOTT

The girls high school basketball playoff brackets out and area teams are ready to roll.

Taliah Scott has joined an ultra-exclusive club.

The News4JAX Super 6 girls basketball rankings will be published each Tuesday during the regular season. Records are through Nov. 21.

Taliah Scott had been committed to Arkansas for more than a year, but still managed to pull off a signing surprise.

Complacency isn’t a word Taliah Scott believes in. Improvement is one that she lives by.

Taliah Scott, the five-star junior guard for the St. John’s Country Day girls basketball team, wants to be the best. She’ll tell anyone who asks that and has the game and the credentials to back up that confidence.

News4JAX handed out surveys in the preseason to select area high school basketball players at media day and polled them on a number of questions. A total of 44 boys players and 51 girls turned in surveys.

The High School 9:12 basketball media day at the Riverside YMCA is one of the stops on the calendar that signal hoops season is right around the corner. Here are some of the sights and sounds from Tuesday’s event.

The best season in Oakleaf girls basketball history finished two wins short of a state championship. The Knights started fast but cooled off after that in a 69-52 loss to Tampa Plant in the Class 7A state semifinals at the RP Funding Center in Lakeland on Friday afternoon. Nyla Jean led Plant with 26 points. AdOakleaf guard Taliah Scott had 26 points and Fantasia James added 15. Both of those players are sophomores and return in 2022 to try and help to Knights contend for a state championship.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Tuesday night is the second round of the girls high school basketball state playoffs. St. Augustine beat Ponte Vedra 47-29 in the regular season, and then edged the Sharks 49-45 in the district championship. The Trojans won 51-50 in OT this season, 44-38 last season, 54-50 in 2019 and 52-39 in 2018. That sets up a rematch of the district championship game, won 46-35 by the Christians. C/F Jaidy Mejia (11.2 ppg) and G Laura Gonzalez (10.2 ppg) lead NFEI.