HIGH FIVE D1

There were 19 teams in operation on Saturday.

*Avery Koenen, North Dakota State, Montevideo 25-W

*Gianna Kneepkens, UCLA, Duluth Marshall 15-W

*Lily Fandre, Lehigh, Eagan 14-W

Lauren Hillesheim, North Dakota, Hopkins 13-L

*Marisa Frost, North Dakota State, Centennial 10-W

*Mikayla Aumer, North Dakota, Cambridge-Isanti 10-L

*Madison Mathiowetz, South Dakota State, Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s 10-W

Totals: 77 points, 5-2

There were four AAAA players, two AA and one A. All made the state tournament.

Kneepkens, Hillesheim won state titles.

D2

There were 31 teams playing on Saturday.

Lydia Haack, Concordia St. Paul, Elk River 44-W

Allie Berns, Jamestown, Wayzata 31-L

Audrey Swanson, Southwest MN State, Waconia 24-W

Natalie Bremer, MSU Mankato, Lake City 23-W

Addie Hanna, Augustana SD, Maple Grove 21-W

Nicole Maenke, Southwest MN State, Shakopee 21-W

Totals: 143 points, 5-1

Haack, Hanna and Berns set new personal bests. Haack has the highest game total of any division this year.

Five players were AAAA; one AA.

All made state except for Berns. Haack won a state title.

D3

There were 34 teams playing on Saturday

Liesl McCallum, Carleton, Minnetonka 29-W

Natalie Beaver, Luther, Hayfield 25-W

Katie Boulanger, Wartburg, New Prague 24-W

Kaitlyn Schaefer, Gustavus, Eastview 23-W

Ava Haus, St. Scholastica, St. Michael-Albertville 19-L

Audrey Jakway, Haverford, Mounds Park 19-W

Lauren Arnold, St. Benedict, Chanhassen 19-W

Totals: 120 points, 6-1

This is the first appearance for McCallum. There are now 74 players on the D3 HF list.

Arnold, Beaver, Jakway, and Schaefer set a new personal bests.

Five players were AAAA; one from AA and one from A. Haus won a state title.

MN GBB RESULTS

AAAA

#2 Minnetonka 90, Blaine 65

#3 Rosemount 62, #8 East Ridge 50

#5 Rochester Mayo 87, Lakeville South 51

AAA

#2 Orono 71, Alexandria 46

#4 Hill-Murray 91, Totino-Grace 38

#6 Stewartville 76, #8 Delano 65

#7 Northfield 62, Woodbury 45

#9 Byron 77, Mahtomedi 40

DeLaSalle 81, #10 Richfield 49

AA

#1 Providence 81, Lakeville North 65 OT

#5 Rochester Lourdes 72, Minneapolis North 36

#7 Fairmont 76, Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City 44

A

#3 Hillcrest Lutheran 59, Breckenridge 53

RANKED RESULTS

Winner High 99 Pelican Rapids

Winner Low 37 Luverne

Loser High 75 Lakeville North

Loser Low 17 Lester Prairie

Biggest Margin 64 Menahga v Warroad

Smallest Margin 1 Park-Cottage Grove v Hastings

Most Combined: 156 Providence v Lakeville North

Least combined: 61 Luverne v Madison, SD

Margins 30 or more 19 (36.54%)

Margins 5 or less 4 (7.69%)

Average 55.442

Winner Average 67.058

Loser Average 43.827

Ranked Average 71.20

Nonranked Average 52.787

Average margin 23.231

Average combined: 110.88

Ranked losses: 3

AAAA Ave 61.474

AAA Ave 55.087

AA Ave 59.065

A Ave 49.607

POINT PARADE

AAAA

Maggie Dyer, Rochester Mayo 30

AAA

Madison Ohm, Byron 27

AA

Dreah Christiansen, Menahga 26

Amelia Truty, Rochester Lourdes 25

A-none found

MILESTONE

Shay Wilfahrt, New Ulm Cathedral 1000 rebounds over Mankato Loyola

DROUGHTS—-AAAA Style

Come March it looks like a state tournament drought will be over. East Ridge is the current #1 team in section 4AAAA. The Raptors have never made the state tournament but have been close several times. Here are the teams that have never been to a state tournament in AAAA. Four of the five are newer schools. Only Park-Cottage Grove has been dry since the 1970s.

Park-Cottage Grove  49 years (1976-77 to current).

Rochester Century  27 years (1998-99 to current)

Lakeville South 20 years (2005-06 to current)

Chanhassen 16 years (2009-10 to current)

East Ridge 16 years (2009-10 to current)

WEEK THAT WAS

UNBEATEN

We are now under double digits. The most shed this past week came in AA with three dropping. One was due to drop when Menahga (still undefeated) pinned a loss on Roseau at the home of the Rams. Fairmont also fell to a team they beat earlier in the year NRHEG.

I have yet to see four of the teams and they all live outside the metro.

Total undefeated left: 7

AAAA: 2  Minnetonka, Rosemount

Leaving the list none

AAA: 0

AA: 2 Menahga; New London-Spicer

Leaving the list Fairmont, Plainview-Elgin-Millville; Roseau

A: 3  Mountain Iron-Buhl; Pine River-Backus; Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s

Leaving the list: Chisholm

STREAKING

There have been a couple of additions sharing the streak leads in AAAA & AA. Both Rochester Mayo and DGF join the club. In A there is a new leader, not because a team fell (in this case undefeated  Mountain Iron-Buhl and Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s) but because NRHEG played a few more games while the leaders did not. NRHEG got revenge on a loss earlier in the year to Fairmont.

AAAA: 11 Minnetonka, Rochester Mayo

AAA: 8 Hill-Murray

AA: 9 New London-Spicer, Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton

A: 10 NRHEG

QUEST FOR…

I was wrong. The week before I erased 11 teams. This week it was 15, 12 in the top 100. The Holiday Tournament week proved to be a big haul. No longer on the list are #11 Cretin-Derham Hall; #20 Monticello; #23 Lakeville South; #31 Proctor; #41 Maranatha; #44 Owatonna; #50 Tartan; #55 Watertown-Mayer; #56 Bemidji; #64 Brainerd; #69 Little Falls; #99 Rock Ridge; #133 St. Anthony; #140 Zimmerman; #221 Grand Rapids

Biggest fish not seen? A new leader #17 Stewartville. Looking at the metro portion of the top 50 there are six. This week will be considerably less than 15 or even 11. Multiple games in one day (like the four from Monticello) just won’t happen again this week.

10: 10/10—-1.000

25: 23/25—.920

50: 38/50—.760

75: 54/75—.720

100: 63/100—.630

125: 65/125—.520

TOP 10S

Off the charts this week included then #3AAA Cretin-Derham Hall; and #6AA Proctor

AAAA: 10/10-1.000

AAA: 9/10-.900

AA: 5/10 .500

A: 5/10-.500

Overall, it is 29/40 or .725  .643. up 0.082.

#1S IN EACH SECTION

Just chipping away.

AAAA: 8/8-1.000

AAA: 4/8-.500

AA: 3/9-.333

A: 3/11-.273

Grand totals: 18/36-.500.

SEEDING THE STATE

Shifts in AAA with Cretin-Derham Hall getting running timed by Wayzata. The Raiders drop to #5 as a result. No movement in AAAA or A.

I would like to note that the bottom (#6, #7, #8) in the bigger classes will be hard pressed to win a game at state.

AAAA

1. Minnetonka (2)
2. Hopkins (6)
3. Rosemount (3)
4. Maple Grove (5)
5. Rochester Mayo (1)
6. East Ridge (4)
7. Elk River (8)
8. Forest Lake (7)

AAA

1. Benilde-St. Margaret’s (6)
2. Hill-Murray (4)
3. Stewartville (1)
4. Marshall (2)
5. Cretin-Derham Hall (3)
6. Rock Ridge (7)
7. Little Falls (8)
8. Totino-Grace (5)

AA

1. Providence (5)
2. Crosby-Ironton (7)
3. New London-Spicer (3)
4. Rochester Lourdes (1)
5. Minnehaha (4)
6. Perham (8)
7. Milaca (6)
8. Clair (2)

A

1. Mountain Iron-Buhl (7)
2. Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s (2)
3. Kelliher-Northome (8)
4. Hillcrest Lutheran (6)
5. Central MN Christian (3)
6. Mayer Lutheran (4)
7. NRHEG (1)
8. Pine River-Backus (5)

WEEK AHEAD

A big time #1 v #2 takes place on Thursday at Orono as Benilde-St. Margaret’s visits in a Metro West contest.