On Saturday, Tobias Harris backed up the buzz. The Half Hollow Hills West senior was superb in scoring 24 points, grabbing 18 rebounds and laying in the winning bucket with three seconds remaining against Rochester East in the semifinals.

   A day later, though, the state's most touted player was reduced from Mr. Basketball to Mr. Basket-bawl with an ill-advised tantrum during the NYSPHSAA Class AA final and an unseemly display after it. His combo personal foul/technical foul got Harris disqualified late in the third quarter of the 71-53 loss to Albany CBA, and he compounded the situation by slamming his runner-up ribbon to the court during the postgame awards ceremony.

   HHHW junior guard Tavon Sledge (33 points) scored the first points of the third quarter for the Colts to trim the deficit to 27-21, but CBA went on a 9-0 run, and then Joe Krong would string together his only five points of the game to get the margin out to 41-25.

   Harris fouled Jack Reilly near midcourt with 1:19 left in the third as HHHW was applying a full-court press. It's possible that a no-call was the better way to go there, but Harris launched immediately into self-destruct mode. Harris took a short lap of the offensive end of the court with the ball in his grasp, leaped into the air in front of the scorers table and collapsed to the floor in a mini-tantrum.

   The ensuing technical foul also served as the fifth personal for the state's 2010 Mr. Basketball award recipient, CBA was shooting double-bonus just 1:03 into the fourth quarter and the Brothers tallied 19 of their 21 points from the line. They were a robotic 29-of-35 on free throws for the game.

   "I feel bad for West because they really had some tough calls there,” CBA coach Dave Doemel said. "Unfortunately, they lost their composure a little bit there, and it’s too bad because they had such a great season, and we didn’t expect to get that margin of victory."

   Harris told The Post-Star the loss was the "lowest of the lows. If I was in there in the fourth quarter, it could have been a lot different."

   Actually, the whole weekend could have been different. HHHW narrowly escaped with the win over East in the semis shortly after CBA pulled a shocker against Newburgh. The Brothers had an admirable season and a 23-1 record to that point, but no one could have reasonably expected a 60-41 rout of Newburgh, a defending Class AA champ with five returning starters plus a transfer student who has a Division I scholarship lined up.

   "It made everybody believe we could do this," senior guard Josh Dennis said. "All of us used to come up here and watch state championships when we were younger. It was our dream to play here. We came here and it was surreal. I think we felt we were in over our heads for a

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little while but we came in and had a great game against the team that won last year. That gave us hope."

   And where there is hope there is potential for greatness, even if the Brothers were facing a final against the state's top-ranked team and superstar Harris, who'll play for the University of Tennessee next season.

   Junior Galal Cancer scored 19 points, senior Kam Ritter added 17 and the Brothers took advantage when the Colts imploded under the burden of being whistled for 30 of the game's 44 fouls. CBA (24-1) also got 15 points from Max Weaver and 11 rebounds from Cancer that contributed to a 49-28 advantage on the boards.

   "If you looked at us all year, nobody's worried about who steps up -- in fact everybody look for everybody to step up at different times of the game," Doemel said. "They don't care who scores. That's been a key to our success -- unselfishness and they don't care who scores."

   Said Ritter, who was selected the MVP: "We definitely knew if we kept our head, kept our composure and played defense, we could win.”

   CBA moves on to the Federation tournament on Saturday to face Christ The King for the right to play Boys & Girls in the final.

   Other Sunday finals: The Jamesville-DeWitt boys beat Newark for their third straight third straight Class A championship. Sophomore Dajuan Coleman scored 12 points and pulled down 13 rebounds to follow-up his double-double in the previous day's semifinals.

   J-D will play Bedford Academy in the Federation semifinals. The winner will meet Buffalo Nichols or Long Island Lutheran.

   Oliva Suhr's one-handed runner from the baseline a second before the buzzer swished through the basket as the Marion girls beat Tioga 56-54 for their first championship in Class C. The Black Knights had wasted a 13-point third-quarter lead and found themselves trailing 52-49 with 3:46 to go. Suhr finished with 20 points.

   Senior Andrea Lictus piled up 17 points, eight rebounds and four steals for the Clymer girls in a 49-35 victory over Harrisville for the Class D championship. Clymer raced to leads of 14-5 and 24-9 after the first two quarters at Hudson Valley Community College.