NorthStar Hoops Blog
All About Minnesota Basketball
Latest Posts
Boys State Tournament by the Numbers–the Teams and the Players
Best of 2025 Boys Basketball Tournament Top Teams Note: The 2 ordinal numbers after each team name indicate the state…
Girls State Tournament by the Numbers–Part 2: The Top Individual Performers
First, the top 5 plus ties in points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks. Maddyn Greenway, Providence, and Tori Oehrlein, Crosby-Ironton,…
Girls State Tournament by the Numbers–Part 1: The Teams
The 2nd half century of Minnesota state high school girls basketball is now launched in the form of the 51st…
Hamline sweeps; Carleton men , St. Ben’s women also advance in MIAC QF
Hamline swept a pair of MIAC playoff games at home last night, while the Concordia (Moorhead) men and women both…
Most Popular Posts
What’s wrong with the Timberwolves?
Everybody is asking, What’s wrong with the Timberwolves? It’s all over the internet and talk radio/podcasts, etc. So I don’t…
2023 MN Basketball Team of the Year Candidates
You may already have noticed that we liked the UMD Bulldogs women as our Team of the Year. They went…
2022 Hoops Awards
Well, so we were waiting on the Minnesota Lynx to make our awards and, as you know, they kinda fizzled…
The Lynx at the Halfway Point (2023)
OK, not quite halfway. The Lynx are 10-13 as of July 25. The All-Star game is come and gone, and…
Boys State Tournament by the Numbers–the Teams and the Players
Best of 2025 Boys Basketball Tournament Top Teams Note: The 2 ordinal numbers after each team name indicate the state…
Girls State Tournament by the Numbers–Part 2: The Top Individual Performers
First, the top 5 plus ties in points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks. Maddyn Greenway, Providence, and Tori Oehrlein, Crosby-Ironton,…
Girls State Tournament by the Numbers–Part 1: The Teams
The 2nd half century of Minnesota state high school girls basketball is now launched in the form of the 51st…
Hamline sweeps; Carleton men , St. Ben’s women also advance in MIAC QF
Hamline swept a pair of MIAC playoff games at home last night, while the Concordia (Moorhead) men and women both…
NSIC Playoff Preview–the Women
Like the NSIC men, the women also appear to feature a “Big 3” of bona fide championship contenders. Of course,…
NSIC Playoff Preview–the Men
If the Timberwolves season has been a rollercoaster, as so described by Ant Edwards, well, then, for the NSIC men…
MIAC playoff field set, as Bethel splits a pair of games with St. Ben’s and St. John’s
The MIAC closed out its regular season yesterday (Saturday, February 22). Bethel, St. Ben’s and St. John’s concluded their seasons…
Two Transformations in One Season for the Timberwolves
The pundits are all atwitter about the NBA season. The trades! That horrible all-star break!! And, now, the final push…
100 Years Ago–St. Paul was the capitol of Minnesota basketball
St. Paul Mechanic Arts and St. Thomas Academy The biggest news of the 1925 Minnesota basketball season came out of…
Mountain Iron-Buhl girls gathering strength for another post-season run
I remember last fall wondering if this might be one of those rare years when the Mountain Iron-Buhl Rangers girls…