The 2022-23 Section Seeds: Top 5 Surprises
One of the consistent themes of a basketball season is some surprising seeds come playoff team. Where were the surprises this year? There weren’t many, but there were a few. Overall, a job well done. AAAA: I found next to…
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Continue ReadingOne of the consistent themes of a basketball season is some surprising seeds come playoff team. Where were the surprises this year? There weren’t many, but there were a few. Overall, a job well done.
AAAA: I found next to nothing I disagreed with seed wise. In fact, even the one I put on the list I really don’t disagree with but it was the closest thing I could find in Class AAAA (Owatonna at four).
AAA: Again, I thought this was pretty well done. A few smaller surprises but on the whole, looks pretty good.
AA: Overall, this looked pretty good. Minneapolis North has the top QRF score in Class AA despite eight losses and that is something that kept them above MCA which I disagree with. Few other oddities in Class AA but not much.
A: Some surprising one seeds. Deer River over Cherry I can live with because Deer River did beat Cherry (although Isaac Asuma Isaac Asuma 6'3" | PG Cherry | 2024 State #102 Nation MN was out) and they are one game off on their resume. The Cass Lake-Bena behind Fosston choice though? Didn’t like that.
Maranatha Christian Academy (QRF Vote). The have no business being behind Minneapolis North. They scheduled tough, their only losses are to an elite team in Iowa, the top Class AA team in Minnesota (HF), and a top ten team in Class AAA (Princeton) by two baskets. With wins over Maple River and New Life Academy, plus beating the teams consistently they should, I don’t think North beating DeLaSalle and playing bigger schools should have got them over MCA as they lost eight games.
Cass Lake-Bena (QRF Vote). The Panthers set up a very tough schedule, were among the top couple teams in state all year, they had a better record than Fosston by a few games, and the Panthers lost two close games whereas Fosston lost five games and some of those games were double figure losses. And a couple of those losses were to teams that weren’t very good. Fosston beat CLB but I don’t think that should make up for jumping Cass Lake-Bena.
Cloquet (QRF Vote). This one made no sense. Cloquet was five games better than Grand Rapids (13-13 record to 8-18) and Cloquet beat Grand Rapids to close out the season! Makes little sense to me that Cloquet was behind them even with GR having more section wins.
Rocori (QRF Vote). I was surprised to see the Spartans at fourth. They had the same amount of wins as Detroit Lakes and more wins in the section and a perceived tougher schedule. Rocori also had a better record than St. Cloud Tech and beat Tech in their more recent game. If they were the three, fine, but to see them at four was a surprise.
Owatonna (Coach Vote). The Huskies surprised many winning 19 games this year but still couldn’t crack the South Suburban top three (Big Nine were seeds 4-8). Not completely outrageous but at the same time, Owatonna is the two time defending section champs. Feel like winning four more games than South and three more games than Farmington might have got them them more respect, but I can surely see arguments the other way in terms of schedule strength. And Owatonna lost to Winona and JM late which did not help them.
Wadena-Deer Creek (QRF Vote). Had a better record than Hawley and they pushed some really good teams to the edge this year, was a little surprised they weren’t in the top four.