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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…
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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…
NCAA bid is there for the Gopher women to take it
Despite a pair of tough losses out on the west coast this weekend, the Minnesota Gopher women remain very strongly…
Southwest State sweeps St. Cloud; men and women both 12-2 in the Northern Sun
The Northern Sun started life as the Northern Teachers Conference consisting of the Bemidji Duluth, Mankato, Moorhead, St. Cloud and…
Cherry 85 Minneapolis North 66, and it wasn’t that close!
Undoubtedly many of the Cherry fans who came down to the Twin Cities to watch their team manhandle Minneapolis North…
Gustavus men and women sweep Hamline; and take a look at those St. Mary’s women!
Gustavus Adolphus swept a men’s and women’s doubleheader Wednesday night (January 22) at Hamline. The Gusties men won a grinder…
Faribault 63 Northfield 61…or Faribault 65 Northfield 61. Take your pick.
It was a strange game. Everyone agreed on that. First, there was the matter of the officiating. “The officials impacted…
Gopher women steal one
Holy crap! The Gopher women just did 2 things they haven’t done in awhile. One, they played long stretches of…
Northfield girls turn the tables on Winona in 87-27 rout, probably the biggest margin in their 50-year rivalry
I watched the Northfield Raider girls clobber the Winona Winhawks 87-27 Saturday (February 18). There’s been a remarkable reversal of…
A magical night for Monticello girls–and the boys, too
One of the best stories in high school basketball so far this year is the Monticello Magic girls. They clobbered…
It was Under Achiever Night in Minnesota sports
Hey, how about those Vikings! But, no, I’m talking about basketball. And, oddly enough, the biggest underachiever–and, for those of…
So, who the hell is Gus Young anyway? And what’s he got to do with Warroad?
As I mentioned in my previous post, I visited Gus Young Court at Gustavus Adolphus for the 1st time last…