Minnesota High School Basketball: Opening Night Preview

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Thursday night is opening night in Minnesota High School Basketball. Where can you see a game? What game should you go see? Here are the options!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Note: The only place to see a collective state wide list of games right now that I am aware of is the Basketball Hub (no schedules on Minnesota Scores yet). So I am going off of their game list which I am sure might be missing some games but I can only go off of what is there. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Metro Main Event</strong>.<strong> Orono at Hopkins</strong>. It's [player_tooltip player_id='1579885' first='Nolan' last='Groves'] and [player_tooltip player_id='1484016' first='Brady' last='Wooley'], it's [player_tooltip player_id='1550877' first='Jayden' last='Moore'] and [player_tooltip player_id='1574212' first='Anthony' last='Smith']. It's a state tournament final four team from last year against a top ten Class AAAA team from last year. It's two of the better teams in the state. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Outstate Main Event. Dawson-Boyd at RTR</strong>. Best two teams in Class A last year? Maybe. And they play on day one with the heavy, heavy DB junior class led by [player_tooltip player_id='1411178' first='Brayson' last='Boike'] taking on the defending champs who have [player_tooltip player_id='1284129' first='Drew' last='Werkman'] back and added a key transfer in 6'5 Andrew Meyers. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Southwest Outstate. Wabasso</strong>. There are three games in the Wabasso Tip Off Tournament starting at 4pm with GFW playing Heron Lake/Okabena-Fulda followed by Hancock and MACCRAY and then Wabasso playing Lakeview. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Southeast Outstate</strong>. <strong>Cannon Falls</strong>. Cannon Falls has big dreams this season with [player_tooltip player_id='1288648' first='Aiden' last='Johnson'] and [player_tooltip player_id='1541291' first='Dylan' last='Banks'], they take on Chatfield who graduated their best seven guys. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Northeast Outstate. Deer River vs Cherry</strong>. Last year [player_tooltip player_id='1288733' first='Isaac' last='Asuma'] was injured early and Deer River took advantage. This year Cherry is not only at full strength from what we know, they are no longer a young team. Cherry is a stacked team and they take on Deer River led by [player_tooltip player_id='1582113' first='Cale' last='Jackson']. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Northwest Outstate. Perham</strong>. There is no better place to watch a game than Perham High School. Perham is in a new era but the building is still the same and they face an Aitkin team who should have their best couple seasons in a long time. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Western Outstate. Glencoe</strong>. Jordan and Glencoe-Silver Lake open the season against one another yet again only GSL has the home court. And they also have USF signed [player_tooltip player_id='1284132' first='Eli' last='Ehrke']. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Southwest Metro. Chaska</strong>. The Hawks led by Trey Lanzen and [player_tooltip player_id='2126118' first='Tyler' last='Forrest'] face off against [player_tooltip player_id='1385264' first='Isaiah' last='Mahal'], [player_tooltip player_id='1521424' first='Kayden' last='Oakland'], and [player_tooltip player_id='1284087' first='Austin' last='Koep']. These are teams that have good young talent. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Northwest Metro</strong>. <strong>Rogers</strong>. The Brainerd road show - they travel a lot to play a strong schedule - starts with a Rogers team that I think will be better than people realize. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Inner City. St. Paul</strong>. St. Cloud Cathedral is in somewhat of a restart, St. Paul Academy should have one of the better teams in a long time with [player_tooltip player_id='1288695' first='Tysen' last='Hayes'] and [player_tooltip player_id='1451145' first='Ethan' last='Carter'] leading the way. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->