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Gopher Men’s Roller Coaster Ride Comes to an End
Well, the Minnesota Gopher men’s roller coaster of a basketball season has come to an end with a 76-64 loss…
Here’s Our Boys All-State Tournament Teams
My All-State Tournament Teams and MVPs No automatic picks because your team won. You get team trophies for that. These…
Boys State Tournament by the Numbers
First, here are the individual statistical leaders Points All Classes–Casmir Chavis, Park Center 79 Zeke Austin Albany 76 Isaac Johnson-Arigu,…
Girls High School Basketball Season Finale
In this post–my final girls top 13 teams • my top 18 players of the year • the top 10…
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2022 Hoops Awards
Well, so we were waiting on the Minnesota Lynx to make our awards and, as you know, they kinda fizzled…
Boys State Tournament Statistical Analysis
OK, one final commentary about the boys state tournament. Some of you may know that I’ve been tracking the scoring…
Way-Too-Early 2023-2024 Preview, Part 1–The Gopher Women
Minnesota’s signature basketball teams are of course the Gophers and the Timberwolves and the Lynx–the only teams designated by the…
2023 MN Basketball Game of the Year Candidates
Our Game of the Year is St. Michael-Albertville’s 71-70 win over Hopkins in the girls Class AAAA final. We discuss…
Gopher Men’s Roller Coaster Ride Comes to an End
Well, the Minnesota Gopher men’s roller coaster of a basketball season has come to an end with a 76-64 loss…
Here’s Our Boys All-State Tournament Teams
My All-State Tournament Teams and MVPs No automatic picks because your team won. You get team trophies for that. These…
Boys State Tournament by the Numbers
First, here are the individual statistical leaders Points All Classes–Casmir Chavis, Park Center 79 Zeke Austin Albany 76 Isaac Johnson-Arigu,…
Girls High School Basketball Season Finale
In this post–my final girls top 13 teams • my top 18 players of the year • the top 10…
Girls State Tournament by the Numbers
2024 Minnesota Girls State Basketball Tournament Statistical Leaders Points Tori Oehrlein, Crosby-Ironton 117 points Addie Mack, Minnehaha 107 Maddyn Greenway,…
The Mavericks are dancing the night away
2024 could turn out to be the year of the Mavericks. Minnesota State-Mankato completed a sweep of both the regular…
Timberwolves gear up for 20-game rush to the finish
So, How About Those Timberwolves? By the time the Timberwolves won their 1st 21 games, beating the L.A. Lakers 118-111…
Carleton overpowers Gustavus; Johnnies still unbeaten (MIAC Men)
It’s been a while since we dropped in on the MIAC, but last night we travelled down to Northfield to…
Live by the 3, Die by the 3: Minnesota Gopher edition
Well, the Gopher men let one get away the other night at the Barn against a not-very-good Iowa team. The…
Tonka, St. Peter, White Bear girls; Armstrong and Cherry boys get wins at Hall of Fame Winter Classic
The 4th annual Minnesota High School Basketball Hall of Fame Winter Classic is now in the books, and was mostly…