With its long-awaited freshman/student athletes aboard, Mizuho High's basketball team practices with a hope to play in the national tournaments. In the prefectural preliminary games, the young athletes compete with their rivals at Shonandai-Sagami, Honmoku-Higashi and Yokohama Gakuen Highs. Will Mizuho compete in the national tournaments and once again confront Narita-Chuo and Meiwadai-Hitachi Highs? And finally how will the players fare in a game against the high school basketball champion team at Tendoji? The struggles of the newly reborn Mizuho basketball team to become the national champion begin!

Won the 31st Kodansha Manga Award for shounen in 2007 (shared with Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei).

Aikawa Kazuhiko was the captain of Tendoji high-school prestigious basketball team. He moves into a new town to attend Mizuho high school and joins its basketball team. However, Mizuho high's basketball team is far from being prestigious, in fact, it's a now defunct basketball team. Nevertheless to say, Kazuhiko's presistence, passion and basketball skills inspired other team members of the dysfunctional basketball team to gear up and start practicing again.
The aim is to play in the national tournaments where all young basketball players meet their opponents in basketball competition. The tale of youth of five protagonist: Fujiwara Takuya, Ishii Tsutomu, Dobasi Kenji and Aikawa Kazuhiko have just began along with the live of Mizuho high-school basketball team.