The Tuesday Night Top Ten Lists

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Tuesday night will likely be the last big night of high school basketball in Minnesota before the holiday break. So what were some of our take homes from the night of action? Here is our top tens!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Top Ten Surprising Results</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"ordered":true} --> <ol><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Edina beat East Ridge 66-53 in what I would say is a big upset</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Benilde-St. Margaret's over DeLaSalle 55-49 in a mild upset of youth beating veterans</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Rock Ridge is really good but they made a statement taking out Mountain Iron-Buhl 79-45</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Cretin-Derham Hall beat St. Thomas by 15, Raiders have put together a couple nice wins this week</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Cambridge-Isanti beat Blaine 120 to 114 in two overtimes. Big Numbers!</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Goodhue over Stewartville 71-59 in a mild Class A over Class AAA upset</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Mayo with the upset of Mankato East by two points</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Orono knocked off Delano by 27 points</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Minneapolis Southwest defeated Richfield 74-68</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>STMA beat Monticello by 42 and held the Magic to 28 points!</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ol> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Top Ten Taking Care of Business</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"ordered":true} --> <ol><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Stillwater beat Mahtomedi 90-82</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Minneapolis North over Minneapolis Henry 93-67</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Eden Prairie beat Waconia 102-67</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Lakeville North over Farmington 85-64</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Hopkins over Tartan 79-62</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Alexandria over Rocori 70-39</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Lyle Pacelli over Schaeffer Academy 66-59</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Albany defeated Mora 66-54</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Pequot Lakes beat Nevis 62-47</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Osseo over Moorhead by 20+</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ol> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Top Ten Closest Games</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"ordered":true} --> <ol><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Providence Academy over Mayer Lutheran 46-45</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Austin over Rochester Century 72-71</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Yellow Medicine East over TMB 47-46</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Little Falls over Milaca 42-40</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Sartell over Sauk Rapids-Rice 56-54</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>DGF over Pelican Rapids 66-64</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Rochester Mayo over Mankato East 80-78</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Woodbury beat Hastings 76-73</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Kenyon-Wanamingo over Bethlehem Academy 63-60</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Mabel-Canton over Houston 59-56</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ol> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Top Player Performances I Could Locate</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='962308' first='Hayden' last='Niebuhr'] of Maple River scored 49 and continues to be a huge surprise this year, he's a 6'7 senior</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Austin's Manny Guy hit a big jumper with 15 ticks to go, then hit a buzzer beating three allowing Austin to beat Century by two!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Sophomore [player_tooltip player_id='1574212' first='Anthony' last='Smith III'] of Hopkins went for 37 points on seven threes to beat Tartan</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Kyle Kallanbach of Orono scored 35 points highlighted by six threes in a win over Delano</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1284214' first='Tameron' last='Ferguson'] scored 40 points in a St. Cloud Tech 51 point win over Apollo. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>2025 [player_tooltip player_id='1574215' first='Abu' last='Keita'] had big 21 points in a slugfest win for BSM over DeLaSalle</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1297887' first='Liam' last='Farniok'] lead Minneapolis Southwest with 28 in a win over Ricfhield</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->