The Minnesota Hoops Weekend

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Where should you be looking to watch high school basketball games this weekend in Minnesota? We give you the weekend run down now!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>The Friday Combo</strong>. For you basketball fans in the Mankato area you can start with Sibley East at New Ulm Cathedral with the 4:45 very early start and then head on up to Mankato for Sleepy Eye and Mankato Loyola. Tyler Vaughn has taken over Sleepy Eye and is doing a solid job while New Ulm Cathedral has taken a step back this season after many years of contending. Sleepy Eye is improved this year winning seven games while Loyola was a contender but has been stung hard by injuries. Sleepy Eye and Loyola play at 7:30. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Friday's Best</strong>.  This is most certainly BSM vs Orono. There is a lot in the line in this game starting with conference play as BSM has a 1.5 game lead on Orono for the top of the Metro West. In addition, BSM is the line 6AAA team that has not lost a game to a section team yet and if they beat Orono tonight they would have to be the unquestioned one seed. Also, with Totino-Grace losing to a .500 Osseo team, number one in Class AAA is up for grabs next week and BSM is in a spot to grab it with a good weekend (they have Orono tonight and then Waconia, who started their improvement by beating BSM to improve to 4-10, on Saturday in a make up game from earlier in the week, I think). Here are the line-ups (assuming all area healthy as I know Orono had been dealing with some sickness).</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>One. [player_tooltip player_id='1572691' first='Jaleel' last='Donley'] vs [player_tooltip player_id='1189958' first='Isaiah' last='Hagen']. These are bigger playmaking guards that will handle, score, create, and could be the difference in the game. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Two. Ron Lee vs [player_tooltip player_id='1579885' first='Nolan' last='Groves']. Lee is a hard working aggressive guard, Groves is an up and coming sophomore scoring a dozen a contest.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Three. [player_tooltip player_id='1560867' first='Christian' last='Wiggins'] vs [player_tooltip player_id='962230' first='Kyle' last='Kallenbach']. One of the top frosh in the state in the state against a top senior sharp shooter.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Four. [player_tooltip player_id='1284155' first='Jayden' last='Daisy'] vs [player_tooltip player_id='962314' first='Grant' last='Gunderson']. Daisy is scoring 13 points a game, Gunderson is the hard working defender, rebounder and grinder.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Five. [player_tooltip player_id='1572689' first='Jalen' last='Wilson'] vs [player_tooltip player_id='1484016' first='Brady' last='Wooley']. Top two sophomore prospects in the state, Wilson is physically more ready and is an all state player while Wooley has huge potential and his best days are 2-3 years in front of him. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong><strong>Bang For the Buck</strong>.</strong> The Big South Conference Showcase is all day tomorrow. It starts at 10am with Fairmont against St. James and ends with a great game between New Ulm and Waseca at a schedule 7:30pm. There are seven games in all and the one place in Minnesota where you can get to a full day of basketball. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Saturday's Best</strong>. That would be Lyle/Austin Pacelli at Spring Grove, or Wayzata at Minneapolis North for those in the metro. There is also a potential fun match-up between Minneapolis Edison vs St. Paul Central.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Top Ten Weekend Games</strong>!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"ordered":true} --> <ol><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Benilde-St. Margaret's at Orono (Friday)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Hopkins at Buffalo (Friday)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Fosston at Cass Lake-Bena (Friday)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Holy Family at Delano (Friday)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Lyle/Austin Pacelli at Spring Grove (Saturday)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Wayzata at Minneapolis North (Saturday)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>St. Thomas Academy at South St. Paul (Friday)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>LCWM at Norwood-Young America (Friday)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Eastview at Lakeville South (Friday)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Albany at Little Falls (Friday)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ol> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>LATE ADDITION</strong>. When I made the "top 20 games of the week" the Hayfield vs Maple River game was not on Minnesota Scores or the Minnesota Basketball Hub. But the match-up of 6th ranked Maple River versus 10th ranked Hayfield takes place on Saturday and is surely a top three game of the weekend. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->