The Minnesota HS Preview: Top Ten Opening Night Games
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Tomorrow night is OPENING NIGHT in Minnesota high school basketball. What are the ten best games that you can get out and see? Here is a list! (1) Cherry at Deer River. This is the second ranked team in the…
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Continue ReadingTomorrow night is OPENING NIGHT in Minnesota high school basketball. What are the ten best games that you can get out and see? Here is a list!
(1) Cherry at Deer River. This is the second ranked team in the state playing at the 15th ranked Class A team in the state. Both teams are deep with talent still and this should be the big headliner of the evening.
(2) Browerville at Henning. This is a pair of 20 win potential teams going head to head to start the season. Browerville was a 20 game winner last year and they return all league players Parker Duncan Parker Duncan 6'2" | SF Browerville | 2023 MN and Miguel Maloney. They will need them both to slow down top ten Class A squad Henning.
(3) Glencoe-Silver Lake at Jordan. GSL was at state last year and they have Eli Ehrke Eli Ehrke 6'3" | SG Glencoe-Silver Lake | 2024 State MN and Sawyer Kaczmarker are back to lead GSL while Jordan has Afton Koch back to lead the Hubmen.
(4) Milaca at St. Francis. Milaca has three double figure scores back from a good team and they are at a big St. Francis team who has UND signed Matthew Bothun Matthew Bothun 6'9" | PF St. Francis | 2023 State MN and Caleb Schoenrock Caleb Schoenrock 6'7" | PF St. Francis | 2024 State MN .
(5) Southwest MN Christian at Luverne. Gannon Ahrendt tries to lead the upset bid against SW Minnesota Christian and their leader Dawson Rieck.
(6) New London-Spicer at Morris Area. New London-Spicer is a section and conference favorite. They face off against West Central Conference foe Morris Area who has talent coming up but only one guy back with experience.
(7) Badger/Greenbush-Middle River at Fertile-Beltrami. Both teams have quality names back (Zach Blawat and Caiden Swenby Caiden Swenby 6'3" | SG Fertile-Beltrami | 2024 State MN ) and should have 8A contending years.
(8) Chisago Lakes at Irondale. Patrick Rowe Patrick Rowe 6'6" | SF Chisago Lakes | 2024 State MN is one of the top prospects playing tomorrow night. He tries to get his team going on night one against an Irondale who was one of the surprises of last season, but they did graduate a ton of talent.
(9) Dawson-Boyd at Orontville. The Brayson Boike Brayson Boike 6'8" | PF Dawson Boyd | 2025 State #326 Nation MN and Keegon Wicht Keegon Wicht 6'0" Dawson-Boyd | 2023 MN pair kick start their season and it’s a great chance to see Boike who is a top ten sophomore in the state.
(10) Mountain Iron Buhl at Hill City. Hill City should be much better and on night one they get Asher Zubich Asher Zubich 6'1" | PG Mountain Iron-Buhl | 2023 State MN and his top ten ranked Class A team.