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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…
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 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…
Best of the Boys Tip-Off: Tinkering with the Ratings, and the Top Performers
More than 100 boys high school basketball games were played last week, so I’m not sure Saturday’s event at Hopkins…
Cherry rallies to defeat Holy Family 73-69, but spotlight is on Brayden Carlson
The Boys Tip-Off is now one for the books, and it featured 5 games matching teams rated no lower than…
Tueday Dec. 7, 2024–Big big night in Minnesota Hoops!
Minnesota has 4 “signature” basketball teams–the Gopher men, the Gopher women, the Lynx and the Timberwolves. Now, it is impossible…
It’s about time for the Minnesota high school boys preview
It’s Tuesday December 5 and Minnesota boys have already played 188 high school basketball games, so we’d better get caught…
Providence outlasts Hortonville, WI, in the Tip-Off’s main scrum, 95-86
We wrote last week that Providence can be fairly described as Minnesota’s best girls high school basketball team until somebody…
Breakdown Tip-Off opener: Albany 84 Duluth Marshall 65
The Girls Breakdown Tip-Off opened with a matchup of 2 Class AA top 5 teams and 2 if Minnesota brightest…
Breakdown Tip-Off Day 2 Summary
The single biggest day of girls basketball in Minnesota–Saturday at the Breakdown Tip-Off Classic–is in the books. Think about it.…
The top performers Day 1, Breakdown Girls Tip-Off
Saturday is the main course, of course, and so it was Appetizer Friday at Minnesota’s premiere day of girls basketball,…
Are Gopher men ready for the Big 10?
The Minnesota Gopher men completed the first “half” of their non-conference schedule at 5-2 last night with their most impressive…
Timberwolves continue to show some teeth
After years (and years and years) of frustration, the Timberwolves are finally showing some teeth for the 1st time in…