High Fives, Point Parades, plus About Last Night, Unbeatens, Streaks, Quests and Seeding the State.

D1 HIGH FIVE

Mallory Heyer, Minnesota, Chaska 20

Gianna Kneepkens, Utah, Duluth Marshall 16

Anna Miller, Drake, Rochester Mayo 16

Olivia Olson, Michigan, Benilde-St. Margaret’s 15

Lily Fandre, Lehigh, Eagan 14

Jenna Johnson, Utah, Wayzata 14

Kierra Wheeler, Norfolk State, Cooper 14

Totals (only 5): 81

The three way tie with 14 points brings Fandre and Wheeler to the High Five for the first time. Five are from AAAA; AAA and AA have one each. Three of these players won a state title: Heyer, Olson, and Wheeler.

POINT PARADE

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AAAA

Lyla Hentges, Chanhassen 37

Jordan Ode, Maple Grove 29

Lyric Singleton, Park Center 27

AAA

Mya Moore, Orono 29

AA

Addi Mack, Minnehaha 33

ABOUT LAST NIGHT

I charted one game in yesterday’s slate of games: Cretin-Derham Hall’s 55-45 victory over Mayer Lutheran.

It was all about the start. The Raiders raced to the front scoring the first dozen points and that initial burst held up in the win over the #2A Crusaders. After 1:20 of action CDH scored on their first three possessions. ML did not score until their ninth try and by this time they were in a 12-0 hole. This was the start of a roller coaster ride experience. ML stormed back to tie it at sixteen with about nine minutes remaining in the half with Clara Keaveny scoring ten including two 3s, but then their momentum shifted back over to CDH. Another unanswered dozen put ML right back in that hole (28-16) with slightly over five minutes to go in the half. At the break it was 33-20.

The widest differential came at 37-23 early in the second half. With nine minutes to go ML and narrowed the margin to a two possession game 40-35. A combination of scoring drought and inability to stop CDH put the Raiders back in the driver’s seat at 51-35 with 3:47 left in the contest. ML found their offensive rhythm late scoring on their last four possessions (a 7-0 finish). But the outcome was pretty much over.

The pp100s in this game were sub 100 and sub 80. CDH had 77.5 while ML checked in at 66.3. The Crusaders’ numbers would be even lower if not for Clara Keaveny. She was the only 31 Clubber of the day with 33 with 22 points and a 129 pp100. The next best Crusader was only 60. Another key Keaveny stat was 109 touches per turnover. A gold standard compared to what I charted during the course of the week with some players unable to get to double digit touches without coughing the ball up. For CDH youth was served along with balanced scoring. The leading scorer came off the bench: 8^th grader Madeleine Hamiel was the only player with double digits at 10. 8^th grade starter Isabelle Deleeuw was one behind with nine. Two other Raiders had nine along with one more with eight.

AAAA

#1 Hopkins 64, #1AAA Benilde-St. Margaret’s 62

#2 Minnetonka 57, #2AAA DeLaSalle 41

#3 St. Michael-Albertville 79, #8AA Visitation 58

#4 Maple Grove 80, #9 Rosemount 56

Eastview 61, #10 East Ridge 50

AAA

#10 Delano 61, Lakeville South 50

AA

#1 Providence 71, Dowling Catholic, IA 69

#4 Minnehaha 89, St. Paul Como Park 31

#6 Sauk Centre 80, Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa 49

A

Cretin-Derham Hall 55, #2 Mayer Lutheran 45

QUEST FOR…

In the past I tried to see the top 100. Last year I stretched that out to over 150 (trying for 200). This year my travel radius will be limited. So my aim is now smaller. When the QRF comes out the top 25 to 50 will be the target. That might be a stretch. The top 10s are another target. That has been met already at the AAAA level. I need five more in AAA—or 22 more. It will be next to impossible, given my constraints this year, to see all ranked A or AA teams unless the venture near the Twin Cities.

AAAA: 10/10 100%

AAA: 5/10 50%

AA: 2/10 20%

A: 1/10 10%

All four? 18/40 45%

UNBEATEN

I will list the remaining unbeatens when we reach ten or less.

AAAA: 12

AAA: 18

AA: 40

A: 42

STREAKING

The longest current streak belongs to Providence with 15.

AAAA: 5, St. Michael-Albertville (4+1). STMA won the third place game in the AAAA tournament last year.

AAA: 4, Delano, Orono

AA: 15 Providece (11 + 4). The Lions got revenge for their last loss to Maple Grove (86-80 on Feb 2, 2024) during the Breakdown Tip Off.

A: 12 Goodhue (10+2). The Wildcats lost to Byron 67-62 on Feb 6, 2024.

SEEDING THE STATE

AAAA

1. Hopkins (6)
2. Michael-Albertville (8)
3. Maple Grove (5)
4. Lakeville North (1)
5. Minnetonka (2)
6. Rosemount (3)
7. Blaine (7)
8. East Ridge (4)

AAA

1. Benilde-St. Margaret’s (6)
2. Marshall (2)
3. Alexandria (8)
4. DeLaSalle (4)
5. Totino-Grace (5)
6. Byron (1)
7. Rock Ridge (7)
8. Cretin-Derham Hall (3)

AA

1. Providence (5)
2. Crosby-Ironton (7)
3. Minnehaha (4)
4. New London-Spicer (3)
5. Sauk Centre (6)
6. Caledonia (1)
7. Barnesville (8)
8. Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton (2)

A

1. Goodhue (1)
2. Walker-Hackensack-Akeley (5)
3. Hancock (6)
4. Mountain Iron-Buhl (7)
5. Mayer Lutheran (4)
6. Kittson County Central (8)
7. Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s (2)
8. MACCRAY (3)