The Expectations Game: Class AAA
The basketball season is about 60 percent complete so today we run through another edition of, The Expectations Game.
How is the game played? Five Categories are listed, teams are put in one of the five. We look at the current standings on Minnesota-Scores.net and compare them to initial prediction from the Breakdown book.
One thing to now, we aren’t looking at preseason top ten rankings as much as teams being at about the spot we expected when the season started. Sure some teams were ranked high and have lost a game or two more so their ranking isn’t where it was at the start but in the grand scheme of things this is how they are doing in relation to expectations.
Much better than expected
- Bemidji (11-4)
- Big Lake (12-4)
- Mahtomedi (15-1)
- Thomas Academy (12-5)
- Waseca (17-1)
- Worthington (11-6)
Better than expected
- Faribault (10-4)
- Mankato West (8-8)
- Sartell-St. Stephen (8-8)
- Paul Highland Park (13-4)
- Willmar (9-8)
As predicted/expected
- Albert Lea (0-14)
- Alexandria (10-4)
- Austin (14-1)
- Becker (10-8)
- Blake (5-13)
- Bloomington Kennedy (6-11)
- Cloquet (4-12)
- Columbia Heights (13-5)
- Dassel-Cokato (3-12)
- Delano (13-3)
- DeLaSalle (13-2)
- Duluth Denfeld (6-10)
- Fergus Falls (14-3)
- Fridley (11-8)
- Grand Rapids (13-4)
- Hibbing (8-8)
- Kasson-Mantorville (6-9)
- Little Falls (6-9)
- Marshall (16-1)
- Minneapolis Patrick Henry (12-6)
- Mound Westonka (5-11)
- New Ulm (5-12)
- North Branch (3-110
- Northfield (9-6)
- Orono (13-4)
- Richfield (7-10)
- Simley (8-10)
- South St. Paul (1-15)
- Stewartville (6-10)
- Anthony Village (14-4)
- Cloud Apollo (6-12)
- Paul Como Park (6-11)
- Thief River Falls (8-8)
- Totino-Grace (9-8)
- Waconia (7-9)
- Winona (6-8)
- Zimmerman (12-5)
Lower than expected
- Benilde-St. Margaret’s (8-9)
- Byron (9-7)
- Chisago Lakes (9-9)
Detroit Lakes (6-8) - Hermantown (7-13)
- Hill-Murray (3-14)
- Holy Angels (2-15)
- Mankato East (7-11)
- Paul Harding (4-12)
- Paul Johnson (7-9)
Much lower than expected
- Monticello (5-12)
- Red Wing (4-13)
- Hutchinson (1-13)
- Rocori (8-8)
- Sauk Rapids-Rice (9-8)