The Week Ahead
The Week Ahead walks you through the top games of the week, where to see them, and why they stand out. National Title Game or HS Hoops? If you aren’t in the mood for Clemson/Alabama part 2 check out a…
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National Title Game or HS Hoops? If you aren’t in the mood for Clemson/Alabama part 2 check out a high school game. Your options? The 4-2 Cooper Hawks are at Hopkins who a reeling a bit (based on their standards) while Cooper will the pace at them….Two Harbors at North Woods is a good game on the North Shore.
Midwest Players Classic. The La Crosse event has four teams from Minnesota included in their six game event which is one of the highlights of the year in terms of events in this area. Rushford-Peterson plays La Crosse Logan, Minnehaha Academy is against Onalaska, Caledonia faces Wauwatosa West, and Woodbury is against Milwaukee Riverside.
Other Saturday games. The monster match-up is Maple Grove at Hopkins at 8pm but the Austin at Rochester JM came at 7:30 is also huge. Austin is likely the one Big Nine team that can push the Rockets for the title. Hopkins is now tenth in the Class AAAA rankings and a win at home against the Crimson would help them greatly. Another one to keep your eye on is Totino-Grace at Armstrong Saturday afternoon. T-G has a monster week of tough games and this is the third one.
Thursday Appetizers. If you simply cant wait for Friday night there is a nice group of games to go see including the following: Totino-Grace at Park Center, Champlin Park at Osseo, EP at CDH, Watertown-Mayer at Annandale, Lourdes at Pine Island, Bemidji at Grand rapids, Springfield at Redwood Valley, and Nevis at Cass-Lake Bena.
Champlin Park vs Osseo is a rivalry game that has included several classics over the years. That will draw the most attention but the W-M vs Annandale game is big as Annandale beat them last year a couple times. The T-G vs PC game will tell us who is truly ready now to contend and the Bemidji vs GR game will clue us in to who can make the run in March, and who has work to do.
Tuesday Top Ten.
- Armstrong vs Osseo.
- Maple Grove vs Totino-Grace
- Chaska at Orono
- Anthony vs DeLaSalle
- Highland Park at Minnehaha Academy
- Rosemount at Apple Valley
- Jordan at Norwood-Young America
- Eden Prairie at Jefferson
- Brooklyn Center at Columbia Heights.
- Grand Rapids at Esko
Friday Night’s Main Event. We dive deeper into Friday with Friday Night Predictions but the stage needs to be set beforehand so people can see what’s ahead.
Minnehaha Academy at Caledonia jumps off the page for me as the game of the night….Tartan vs Mahtomedi matches two of the three favorites for the Metro West…New Prague vs Chaska will give us a clue who belongs in the back end of the AAAA top ten…Lakeville South vs Lakeville North is that rivalry game as is Hopkins at Wayata and this time the Trojans are higher ranked…