Hammer is offered an out of state scholarship and is forced to leave the team and Mary Beth. Meanwhile, Antonio moves to Texas to be with Kristy, and Rico has already left the team to persue wrestling. Replacing him is new player Eugene Brown.

After becoming the manager of Michael's band, Mary Beth tries to talk to a record executive. However, she finds that he's not willing to listen to anything that a female manager has to say. Meanwhile, the team thinks that Coach Katowinski might be leaving to take another job and come up with a plan to make him stay.

Julie starts dating an older guy named Jason. He continually encourages her to do more mature things, like stay out late on school nights. Because she's still a high school student and he's not, Julie feels like she can't say no because Jason will think that she's too much of a kid. While they attend a school dance together, Jason blows off the actual dance and ends up drinking in the hallway. When he's ready to leave and wants to drive Julie home, Kristy and Mary Beth don't think it's a good idea because he's been drinking. Julie goes anyway because she's afraid to say no. She and Jason end up getting into a car accident. Luckily, neither of them are hurt badly, but Julie injures her shoulder and can't play in Deering's game.

Eugene takes up an interest in skateboarding and starts to act like it's more important than basketball. After the Coach won't cut Eugene any breaks and allow him time for both sports, Eugene thinks about focusing solely on skateboarding.

Michael meets a man at a pickup basketball game and gets not only a loan from him, but a job as well. After Julie finds out that the man is a college recruiter, they're worried that Michael may have become ineligible to play basketball in college.

Julie and Antonio both love swing dancing and decide to enter a competition together. At first, Kristy and Michael are just annoyed that they can barely spend time with either of them. However, Mary Beth plants the idea that there may be more than dancing going on between the two. Meanwhile, Silk and Eugene work on setting up pranks to catch on video, so that they can make money by sending their tape to a funniest home videos television show.

Eugene and Silk both get jobs co-managing a new dance club. They're faced with a difficult decision when they find that a classmate and a great customer is dealing dope. Meanwhile, Kristy and Mary Beth decide to buy drugs from the dealer undercover in order to win spots on the newspaper.

Silk's dad is a police officer and as part of the job, he puts criminals behind bars. Silk starts to be terrorized by a vengeful criminal named Eric who was recently released from jail and has it out for Silk. After being confronted by Eric, Silk starts to get nervous about being alone without any defense, so he starts arming himself with a gun. During another confrontation with Eric, the gun accidentally goes off, nearly hitting Mary Beth, Michael, and Eugene.

After becoming lab partners with Syd, a grote (what teens from Deering call goths), Kristy tries to befriend her and close the gap between their cliques a little. As part of Kristy's plan to get to know some of the grotes a little better, she dresses up just like one, with the white makeup, black clothing, and piercings. She also tries to get Mary Beth and Julie to realize that other social groups aren't so different, but Kristy's other friends can't seem to make the effort to get to know them. However, while dressed up like a grote, Kristy and some of Syd's friends get beaten up by a pack of guys. Meanwhile, Eugene starts dating a college student after he lies to her and says that he's also attending college. However, he gets himself into a hard situation when she starts subbing at Deering.

Michael and Silk sign up for a Big Brother program in which they will spend time with a younger boy and be his mentors. The guys get assigned to a boy named Daniel, and he and Silk instantly bond. However, Silk has to leave early and doesn't have the chance meet Daniel's mother. Michael does and she mentions to him that she's glad Daniel got the right kind of Big Brothers- white males. Michael has no idea how to handle the situation, so he tells the rest of the team and they struggle with what to do in regards to Silk.

The team travel to yet another state final. Antonio meets up with some friends of his that are in a fraternity. Kristy becomes jealous when she finds out that other girls were at a party hosted by the fraternity, so she and Mary Beth come up with a scheme in which they dress up as guys and head on over to the fraternity's next event in order to spy on Antonio. Meanwhile, Michael's temper flares on the court when he continually gets harassed by a guy in the stands.

The Deering team discover that in the playoffs they're playing against a team that's generally considered easy to beat. Being overly confident, they start to slack off on their practices and don't take the upcoming game seriously enough, causing them to lose the championship. Meanwhile, Kristy and Mary Beth meet an old friend that they used to tease and try to make it up to him.

Antonio is offered a scholarship from the University of Kentucky. However, he gets injured and decides to give up on taking the scholarship. Coach and the other team members try to convince him to overcome his injury and go to Kentucky.

Coach's 17-year-old daughter, Kate, returns from Chicago to visit. However, he doesn't know that she has a baby. She confides her secret in the girls and they offer to sit for the baby while Kate and Coach visit. Meanwhile, the guys try to sell sunglasses in order to afford a ski trip.

Eugene starts gambling online and racks up a huge debt. He decides to keep it a secret, but when Silk finds out, he tells the Coach. Meanwhile, Kristy has a dental problem (and a ""hump"" on her back- an ice pack) that makes it difficult to speak. She's supposed to be interviewed by Stanford University, so she has Mary Beth take her place.

When a favourite teacher at Deering High School encourages the students to rebel against a newly enforced dress code, they gain victory, but their teacher is sacked. At their next big basketball game, the media are around and the team see their perfect opportunity to stage a sit-in. They get their point across but eventually Coach convinces everyone to get up and play the game - except Julie and Silk, who decide to boycott the match unless their teacher is rehired, or at least is given a good reason for being sacked. Eventually it is revealed that the teacher was fired because the board thought that he was getting too old to teach, and they'd taken this opportunity to let him go.

Silk's aunt is a singer in a gospel choir, in which Silk himself also sings. At first he keeps it a secret from the others, but they find out and everyone gets along really well with his Aunt Charlotte, who is a great basketball player! However she gets very sick, and although Silk prays really hard, she dies. He begins to lose his faith, but his Aunt appears to him and tells him to keep believing. Meanwhile, Mary Beth and Coach Katowinski both compete in a fundraising competition where the person who can stay for the longest time inside a VW Beetle wins it.

When Coach tells Julie to toughen up for Deering's upcoming big game against Montrose, she rises to the challenge. However her excellent defense lands Montrose's star player, Dave Carter, who was destined for the NBA next year, in hospital with a serious injury. Julie loses her confidence and gets benched for the next game. She visits Dave in the hospital and he assures her that he doesn't hold her responsible for his injury. Meanwhile, Mary Beth and Kristy have problems of their own when an ATM spews $1000 out when Kristy asked it for $20. The bank had no record of their mistake and didn't want the money back, so the girls go shopping. However they began to have bad luck after keeping the cash.

Silk receives a basketball scholarship from Temple University. At first he's psyched about the opportunity to go to Temple. However, after losing a game against two of Temple's players, Silk worries that he won't be able to keep his grades up and be a successful player against the competition in college. Meanwhile, fed up with getting rides from their parents, Julie and Kristy decide to buy a car together. But after constantly arguing with each other over their car, Julie and Kristy's friendship starts to get a little strained.

When Kristy and Antonio both get jobs working at the local cinema, they enjoy working together until a promotion becomes available. They each work on a marketing ploy - Antonio makes an elaborate spacecraft out of candy boxes, and Kristy organizes a late night celebrity showing of ""Saved By The Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas"" with a celebrity appearance from Dustin Diamond, a.k.a. ""Screech"". Kristy gains the promotion, and bosses an envious Antonio around so much that he quits, and his relationship with Kristy hits a rocky patch. Meanwhile, Mary Beth has a romantic dream about Eugene. She finds herself attracted to him in daylight too, so they go out on a date, and have a good time until they kiss.

Mary Beth finds out that Hammer is finished with Duke after dropping out. He decides that he'd like to attend UCLA with Mary Beth and Kristy. However, he can't get accepted, forcing Mary Beth to choose between Hammer and Kristy. Meanwhile, the guys take Coach Katowinski's dog, Killer, for a walk but accidentally lose him in the mall, where he's picked up by an Adopt-A-Pet volunteer.

While working on an article for the school paper, Mary Beth meets a guy that asks her out. Things go great until he wants more from her than she's okay with. Meanwhile, two girls try to sabotage Eugene and Silk's game.

Though the team is nearing the conclusion of an undefeated season, Coach is concerned that their playing has become tentative and that they fear losing more than they desire to win. He tries to get them to remember what it was like when they played basketball for fun. Also, Julie gets accepted by the University of Connecticut.

The gang work on setting up the gym for the prom. However, they run into problem after problem. The girls lose the prom money and later end up wearing the same dress the actual night of the prom. Also, Mary Beth and Silk end up with horrible dates, while Eugene still tries to find the right date. But the worst problem of all is when a tornado hits the Deering area.

In this clip show, Mary Beth and Kristy work on their final journalism project to capture the most important things that they learned in high school. They interview the rest of the gang, discussing the best and worst moments during their time spent at Deering.

The gang prepare to take a final glance at their time spent at Deering over the years. Everyone is emotional, especially Kristy who is worried that after they graduate, they'll never see each other again.