Recap of Monday action 2.3.2025
D1 HIGH FIVE
Liv McGill, Florida, Hopkins 18
Kierra Wheeler, Norfolk State, Cooper 8
Piper Carlson, Idaho State, St. Michael-Albertville 7
Totals: 33
All three were state champs, two at AAAA, one at AAA (Wheeler).
POINT PARADE-12
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AAAA=2
Autumn McCall, Centennial 37
Jordan Ode, Maple Grove 26
AAA-1
Maria Radabaugh, Totino-Grace 25
AA-5
Marta Forsline, Mesabi East 44
Maddyn Greenway, Providence 35
Morgan Korf, Pelican Rapids 29
Clarissa Sauer, Winona Cotter 27
Morgan Staloch, Jordan 27
A-4
Leah Bode, Nicollet 29
Marissa Tusler, West Lutheran 28
Ruby Klinger, Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City 27
Kenzie Kiminski, Floodwood 25
RANKED RESULTS
Winner High 101 Providence
Winner Low 40 Hills-Beaver Creek; Math & Science
Loser High 71 Lester Prairie
Loser Low 12 Red Lake
Biggest Margin 86 Northome/Kelliher v Red Lake
Smallest Margin 1 Maple River v Blue Earth
Most Combined: 145 Sleepy Eye v Lester Prairie
Least combined: 65 St. Paul Highland Park v Cristo Rey Jesuit
Margins 30 or more 27
Margins 5 or less 8
Average 53.85
Winner Average 66.64
Loser Average 41.05
Average margin 25.59
Average combined: 107.70
Ranked Upsets: none
AAAA Ave 51.62
AAA Ave 50.57
AA Ave 53.28
A Ave 54.57
A? A wins the night 1.29 better than AA. The bigger classes trailed by even more. Why was A in front? Their ratio of 60+ to 40- was 30/16 or 1.875; AAAA, by contrast, was 5/3 or 1.667. If we take it one step further 70+/30- A was 14/9 or 1.556; the AAAA ratio was 2/3 or 0.667. Not ideal.
AAAAA:
#1 Maple Grove 76, Spring Lake Park 21
AA:
#1 Providence 101, St. Croix Prep 19
#10 Jordan 82, Belle Plaine 45
A:
#4 Mountain Iron-Buhl 80, Ely 58
#6 Kittson County Central 85, Goodridge/Grygla-Gatzke 47
#8 Breckenridge 84, Brandon-Evansville 46
#9 Hancock 84, Minneota 42
ABOUT LAST NIGHT…..Elk River v Andover
Frigid. That was the word to describe the weather outside the gym last night at Andover, but it also described the offensive efforts of the Huskies. You would think with a name like Huskies they would enjoy the cold. There was nothing enjoyable about a pp100 of 29.9 for the hosts. Elk River put running time on Andover in a 56-20 win. True that running time didn’t kick in until 1:05 remained in the contest. Back in the day when I was coaching, I strived to get my team to score 10 points every four minutes (this was back in the day of 8-minute quarters). That meant after the first quarter I expected to see at least 20 points on the scoreboard for my team. 20 points after 36 minutes would create ulcers for me.
Andover, last year’s section 7AAAA champ, lost a lot to graduation and then lost coach Blake Nicols to Lakeville South. They are in a rebuilding mode. Aubrey Draves has taken the reigns for the Huskies. She has height in her lineup. Three players are 6-2 or bigger and two start. Both freshman Logan Miller (6-3) and sophomore Myla Evers (6-2) had five blocks each as ER kept trying to score inside on the pair. Those rim protectors definitely altered and prevented shots. What the Elks feasted on were turnovers. The Huskies had difficulties negotiating the full court press. ER did a great job of reading the action and anticipating passes to the tune of 31 turnovers. That was one turnover every 9.71 touches. Andover scored at the rate of one point every 15.05 touches. Those turnovers led to transition scoring. ER turned it over less frequently—every 23.74 touches for a total of 19 on the night.
ER was not at top form offensively either, if top form is 100 pp100. They checked in with an 82.4 pp100 which was more than enough to offset the lowly 20 points and 29.9 pp100. Both squads were 0 for first half behind the arc (7 attempts for ER, 4 four Andover). That improved in the second half for ER with five conversions. Andover never connected. Elsie Ostmoe of ER topped the scoring list with 13 points on a robust 144.4 pp100. She added 11 d stops and ended up with the best 31 Club score of 27.
So why this game? Andover was ranked in the top 55 (heading into this game) on the QRF scale. The Huskies are 10-10 now on the year. ER is 14-6 on the year and with an important win at Brainerd is poised to be the #2 seed in 8AAAA.
DAY AHEAD
Tuesday is generally the busiest day of the week, and it is again, but only with 124 games on tap, down from last week’s 153. A trio of Ranked v Ranked await.
RANKED V RANKED
#3AAAA Eden Prairie at #2AAAA Hopkins
#10AAAA Rosemount at #6AAAA Prior Lake
#7AAAA St. Michael-Albertville at #8AAAA Minnetonka
OTHER RANKED
AAAA: #4 Eastview; #5 Wayzata; #9 Lakeville North
AAA: #1 Marshall; #3 Benilde-St. Margaret’s; #4 Alexandria; #5 Orono; #7 Hill-Murray; #8 Mahtomedi; #9 Delano
AA: #1 Providence; #2 Crosby-Ironton; #3 New London-Spicer; #5 Sauk Centre; #7 Minnewaska;
A: #2 Hillcrest Lutheran; #3 Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s; #5 Mayer Lutheran; #9 Hancock; #10 Braham