Minnesota High School Basketball: Opening Night Preview
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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! Note: The only place to see a collective state wide list of games right…
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Continue ReadingThursday 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!
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.
Metro Main Event. Orono at Hopkins. It’s Nolan Groves Nolan Groves 6'4" | CG Orono | 2025 State #259 Nation MN and Brady Wooley Brady Wooley 6'9" | C Orono | 2025 State #187 Nation MN , it’s Jayden Moore Jayden Moore 6'0" | PG Hopkins | 2026 State MN and Anthony Smith Anthony Smith 6'0" | CG Hopkins | 2025 State MN . 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.
Outstate Main Event. Dawson-Boyd at RTR. Best two teams in Class A last year? Maybe. And they play on day one with the heavy, heavy DB junior class led by Brayson Boike Brayson Boike 6'8" | PF Dawson Boyd | 2025 State #326 Nation MN taking on the defending champs who have Drew Werkman Drew Werkman 6'4" | PF RTR | 2024 State MN back and added a key transfer in 6’5 Andrew Meyers.
Southwest Outstate. Wabasso. 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.
Southeast Outstate. Cannon Falls. Cannon Falls has big dreams this season with Aiden Johnson Aiden Johnson 6'6" | SF Cannon Falls | 2024 State MN and Dylan Banks Dylan Banks 5'11" | PG Cannon Falls | 2024 State MN , they take on Chatfield who graduated their best seven guys.
Northeast Outstate. Deer River vs Cherry. Last year Isaac Asuma Isaac Asuma 6'3" | PG Cherry | 2024 State #102 Nation MN 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 Cale Jackson Cale Jackson 5'10" | PG Deer River | 2025 State MN .
Northwest Outstate. Perham. 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.
Western Outstate. Glencoe. 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 Eli Ehrke Eli Ehrke 6'3" | SG Glencoe-Silver Lake | 2024 State MN .
Southwest Metro. Chaska. The Hawks led by Trey Lanzen and Tyler Forrest Tyler Forrest 6'2" | PG Chaska | 2027 State MN face off against Isaiah Mahal Isaiah Mahal 6'2" | CG Northfield | 2025 State MN , Kayden Oakland Kayden Oakland 6'4" | SF Northfield | 2026 State MN , and Austin Koep Austin Koep 6'3" | SF Northfield | 2024 State MN . These are teams that have good young talent.
Northwest Metro. Rogers. 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.
Inner City. St. Paul. St. Cloud Cathedral is in somewhat of a restart, St. Paul Academy should have one of the better teams in a long time with Tysen Hayes Tysen Hayes 6'7" | PF St. Paul Academy | 2024 State MN and Ethan Carter Ethan Carter 6'2" | PG St. Paul Academy | 2024 State MN leading the way.