What If…. The Metro/Outstate Game
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Each and every year I think back to the old Minnesota High School Basketball tradition of the Metro-Outstate game. What was the Metro-Outstate Game you ask? It was what Minnesota had before the All Star Series of 40 seniors from…
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Continue ReadingEach and every year I think back to the old Minnesota High School Basketball tradition of the Metro-Outstate game.
What was the Metro-Outstate Game you ask? It was what Minnesota had before the All Star Series of 40 seniors from all around the state. It was ten metro players against ten outstate talents. So what would that game of looked like in 2023? First, here is our participants (yes size/position is taken into consideration somewhat, we aren’t putting five small point guards on the same team) of seniors.
The Metro Ten
Patrick Bath Patrick Bath 6'9" | C Totino Grace | 2023 State MN of Totino-Grace
Taison Chatman Taison Chatman 6'4" | PG Totino Grace | 2023 State #35 Nation MN of Totino-Grace
Tommy Humphries Tommy Humphries 6'5" | SF Totino-Grace | 2023 State #283 Nation MN of Totino-Grace
Jack Janicki Jack Janicki 6'4" | SG White Bear Lake | 2023 State #277 Nation MN of White Bear Lake
Boden Kapke Boden Kapke 6'11" | C Holy Family | 2023 State #153 Nation MN of Holy Family
CJ O’Hara of Park Ceter
Max Shikenjanski Max Shikenjanski 6'2" | PG Stillwater | 2023 State #288 Nation MN of Stillwater
Hayden Tibbits Hayden Tibbits 5'11" | PG Wayzata | 2023 State MN of Wayzata
Nasir Whitlock Nasir Whitlock 6'2" | PG Delasalle | 2023 State MN of DeLaSalle
Nolan Winter Nolan Winter 7'0" | PF Lakeville North | 2023 State #98 Nation MN of Lakeville North
The Outstate Ten
Zach Anderson Zach Anderson 6'6" | SF Martin County West | 2023 State MN of Martin County West
Cooper Drews Cooper Drews 6'4" | SF Princeton | 2023 State MN of Princeton
Ryan Heise Ryan Heise 6'8" | SF Lake City | 2023 State MN of Lake City
Adam Jenkins Adam Jenkins 6'9" | C Moorhead | 2023 State MN of Moorhead
Buay Koak Buay Koak 6'4" | SG Lyle-Pacelli | 2023 State MN of Lyle/Austin Pacelli
Owen Leach Owen Leach 6'6" | SF Dillworth Glyndon-Felton | 2023 State MN of DGF
Isaac Matti Isaac Matti 6'1" | SG Hayfield | 2023 State MN of Hayfield
Will Opsahl Will Opsahl 6'8" | SF Goodhue | 2023 State MN of Goodhue
Aeron Stevens Aeron Stevens 6'7" | PF Plainview-Eligin-Millville | 2023 State MN of PEM
Asher Zubich Asher Zubich 6'1" | PG Mountain Iron-Buhl | 2023 State MN of Mt Iron-Buhl
The Result
The outstate would be a much bigger and longer team with true power forwards that would have to be defended by O’Hara and Humphries, who would be playing the four on this team, but both could handle it. There would be a lot of versatility on the floor and I do have to wonder how a group of Whitlock, Tibbits, Chatman, and Shikenjanski are sharing the ball. That said, Tibbits and Shikenjanski managed just fine this past summer playing together so it would not be an issue. Then you have the issue of the unstoppable duo of Kapke and Winter in the paint together, or subbing in for one another. Jenkins would be the only outstate player that could try and slow them in the post. I say Metro by double digits for sure, maybe by 16 points.