The 7A Profile
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Cherry has the most firepower in Class A basketball and now for the first time they have an experienced team throughout their line-up. They are the class Section 7A favorite. The 7A Power Rankings Cherry Deer River Chisholm Carlton-Wrenshall Littlefork-Big…
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Continue ReadingCherry has the most firepower in Class A basketball and now for the first time they have an experienced team throughout their line-up. They are the class Section 7A favorite.
The 7A Power Rankings
- Cherry
- Deer River
- Chisholm
- Carlton-Wrenshall
- Littlefork-Big Falls
- North Woods
- Mt. Iron-Buhl
- Ely
- Cromwell-Wright
- Floodwood
- Nashwauk-Keewatin
- Fond du Lac Ojibwe
- Northland
- Bigfork
- Hill City
- South Ridge
- Cook County
- McGregor
- Northeast Range
- Harbor City International
The Section 15
First Team
Isaac Asuma Isaac Asuma 6'3" | PG Cherry | 2024 State #102 Nation MN of Cherry (sr)
Noah Asuma Noah Asuma 6'1" | SG Cherry | 2026 State MN of Cherry (soph)
Jonah Burnett Jonah Burnett 6'1" | PG North Woods | 2024 State MN of North Woods (sr)
Cale Jackson Cale Jackson 5'10" | PG Deer River | 2025 State MN of Deer River (jr)
Noah Sundquist Noah Sundquist 6'3" | SF Cherry | 2025 State MN of Cherry (jr)
Second Team
Luuke Korpella of Carlton-Wrenshall (sr)
Carson Brown Carson Brown 6'0" | PG Cherry | 2025 State MN of Cherry (jr)
Isaiah Asuma Isaiah Asuma 5'11" | SG Cherry | 2027 State MN of Cherry (fr)
Caiden Schjeken of Deer River (jr)
Carter Woodall of Carlton-Wrenshall (sr)
Third Team
Sam Ojibway of Carlton-Wrenshall (sr)
Sean Fleming of Chisholm (sr)
Jack Davies Jack Davies 5'8" | PG Ely | 2026 State MN of Ely (soph)
Thomas Larson of Littlefork-Big Falls (jr)
Philip Bernard of Chisholm (sr)
Dylan Nyberg Dylan Nyberg 5'10" | PG Cromwell-Wright | 2025 State MN of Cromwell-Wright (sr)
7A Breakdown
For starters, the Cherry Tigers have the best all around basketball player in the state of Minnesota in Isaac Asuma Isaac Asuma 6'3" | PG Cherry | 2024 State #102 Nation MN . There might be guys that have explosiveness that make them better at one area, guys with size and huge potential that allow them to make the biggest impact, but when it comes to a player doing everything for his team, nobody can match Asuma. And now Isaac has teammates around him that all have two years of varsity experience which is huge. Other top Class A contenders lose pieces, Cherry gets everything back a year older. Deer River will still be tough, Chisholm will be good and I think Littlefork-Big Falls will be tough. And then there is Carlton-Wrenshall who I just learned right now is combined.
Why did it take so long for me to learn that? There is no transaction wire that announces schools combining programs. The state high school league does not announce this. There is no twitter announcement that came to my feed. I’m sure there is a small newspaper that had it and there is a school website that said it, but obviously we can’t regularly scan all small town papers and school websites. When I did my part for the Breakdown book in 7A I turned it in with those teams being separate but Tim learned of the change and took care of it on their team profile.
So now I am hear to tell you that a school that was 10-14 last year, and another school that was 8-18 last year, they have combined. And in that combination they have a conference MVP, two first team all league honored players, and a second team all honored player. And those four players combined to average 76 points a game last year. I don’t know how that will mix but the last two times we saw teams combine like this – Rock Ridge and Border West – they were really good. So we have to expect that Carlton-Wrenshall will be some kind of good.