The Class A State Tournament Field: Seeded 1-8
When it comes to surprises Class A takes the award for this season. Here is your field and our predicted seeds for the state tournament!
The Field
1A: Spring Grove
2A: Mankato Loyola
3A: RTR
4A: New Life Academy
5A: Nevis
6A: Border West
7A: Cherry
8A: Fosston or Sacred Heart
Pre-Seeding Notes
- First of all, I forgot until right now that Fosston and Sacred Heart play tomorrow and didn’t play this evening so we have one spot to go. I really should be doing this tomorrow but….. I can’t help myself. I have had way too many Coca-Colas (not Pepsi, Pepsi sucks!). Back to hoops, Fosston played Cherry to a nine point loss which was similar to Nevis who played Cherry to a 12 point loss.
- Spring Grove might be the hottest team in the state right now and they have earned a good spot. They also beat Mankato Loyola this year in a 61-54 game. That said, the biggest sleeper and not talked about team in the state Border West might be the hottest team. They are 26-2 with a huge win over top ranked Henning tonight 66-51.
- RTR has beaten Dawson-Boyd twice where as Spring Grove lost to Dawson-Boyd
- New Life Academy beat Cherry this season
- Cherry beat Nevis this season. That is important there, but what about Nevis or Loyola? Nevis has the better record although Loyola’s eight losses does include a time when two key players were injured. That said Loyola has the worst losses of the group (Springfield and Sleepy Eye).
My Seeding
- RTR
- Spring Grove
- New Life Academy
- Cherry
- Border West
- Sacred Heart or Fosston
- Nevis
- Mankato Loyola