Big night in local basketball.

It's center stage for the local girls' basketball teams tonight in the MIAA Tournament!

I'll be at Foxboro High tonight, working alongside Mark Davis with the Foxboro Cable Access crew to cover the No. 2 Foxboro Warriors entertaining the No. 15 Dighton-Rehoboth Falcons (6:30 start). It's a touch of deja vu for Lisa Downs' crew, as they defeated D-R in the quarterfinal round of last year's tournament, 66-35.

Mark Davis, left, interviews Foxboro coach Lisa Downs

 and junior guard Katelyn Mollica after a recent game.

(An aside: It was funny to see a typo in a tweet by the Foxboro athletic department today that said the Foxboro girls were playing "B-R," which would be Bridgewater-Raynham, the top-seeded team in Division 1-South. No need to panic!)

A lot of those Falcons have returned under new coach Chris Perron, particularly junior guard Emily D'Ambrosio, who is their leading scorer at 18 points per game and is most likely to become the area's next 1,000-point scorer. Forward Meg Reed is also a talented athlete, but I'm not sure that D-R (11-9) has the overall balance and depth to overcome the challenges that 19-2 Foxboro puts forth.

And it could be more deja vu for the Warriors if they win -- a possible visit (day and time TBA) from No. 7 Pembroke, which is playing No. 10 Notre Dame Academy of Hingham tonight. Pembroke, of course, put a world of hurt on the Warriors in last year's sectional semifinal at Bridgewater-Raynham, winning 50-24. Can't think of better motivation for the Warriors to get to the next round.

At the same time, I'll be keeping a keen eye on the results of the Division 1-South opener over on Holcott Drive in Attleboro, in which No. 5 Bishop Feehan (15-5) will play host to No. 12 King Philip (12-8). You may recall that just a couple of weeks ago, Faye Veilleux scored a career-high 26 points against the Shamrocks, who wilted in the fourth quarter and suffered a 65-59 defeat at KP.

Indeed, the Hockomock League was not kind to the Shamrocks this year. In all, Feehan had six games against Hockomock foes, and after defeating Attleboro, King Philip and North Attleboro earlier in the season, they dropped successive games to Foxboro, KP and Mansfield in the second half.

The winner will play (day and time TBA) against the winner of No. 13 New Bedford at No. 4. Newton South at the higher seed's home court.