The Tri-Metro Preview

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The Islanders took the league again last season but they won it by a game over Columbia Heights, and by two games over Richfield. What about this season?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Conference Commentary</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Top Ten in State</strong>: DeLaSalle, Richfield</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The Islanders are deep, they are coming off of another final four run, and they return a ton of good players. The Islanders will be the deepest team in this league by far, and they are going to be one of the state's deepest teams. [player_tooltip player_id='1574223' first='CJ' last='Armstrong'] leads a really nice group of guards at Richfield plus I think [player_tooltip player_id='2412724' first='Dre' last='Collins'] could have a huge year. They seem like the top contender to De</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Compete with Most</strong>: Cooper, Fridley, St Anthony Village</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Keep an eye on Cooper. They always do a great job of competing over there and it's a very nice junior class of players that will lead them to a better season. St. Anthony is always better than I think people expect and with Brett Sirion around that could happen again.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Rebuilding: </strong>Columbia Heights, AHA, Kennedy, Brooklyn Center</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>There is change all over in this group. Heights lost a ton of seniors and then Willie Braziel took over at Simley so they are going to look quite different. Holy Angels has a third coach in three years, they are restarting again although they have some solid players. Kennedy has been down for a number of years, they have [player_tooltip player_id='2897741' first='Troy' last='Bell'] coming to them after he was at AHA last year. And Brooklyn Center had another tough year. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>24-25 Conference Prediction</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(1) DeLaSalle</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(2) Richfield</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(3) Robbinsdale Cooper</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(4) Fridley</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(5) St. Anthony Village</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(6) Columbia Heights</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(7) Academy of Holy Angels </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(8) Bloomington Kennedy</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(9) Brooklyn Center</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Preseason All Tri Metro</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>First Team</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1574223' first='CJ' last='Armstrong'] of Richfield (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2103258' first='De'von' last='Irvin'] of DeLaSalle (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2569245' first='Jaeden' last='Udean'] of DeLaSalle (Soph)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2103394' first='Dorian' last='Pruitt'] of DeLaSalle (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Brett Sirion of St. Anthony Village (Jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1560828' first='Rylan' last='McPipe'] of Robbinsdale Cooper (Jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>Second Team</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Trenton Woodall-Jones of Fridley (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1560744' first='Evan' last='Miller'] of DeLaSalle (Jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2412724' first='Dre' last='Collins'] of Richfield (Soph)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2434735' first='Malik' last='Johnson'] of Bloomington Kennedy (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1288747' first='Andrew' last='Apiagyei'] of DeLaSalle (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>Third Team</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2126474' first='Kamar' last='Thomas'] of DeLaSalle (Soph)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1874939' first='Yusuf' last='Hussein'] of Robbinsdale Cooper (Jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Julian Manjo of Columbia Heights (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1560817' first='Adin' last='Inda'] of Richfield (Jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2175468' first='Marcus' last='Anderson'] of DeLaSalle (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>Fourth Team</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2104462' first='Damian' last='Devine'] of Academy of Holy Angels (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1460328' first='Braden' last='Siroin'] of St. Anthony Village (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2822382' first='Jahnial' last='Jones'] of Robbinsdale Cooper (Jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2533408' first='Deon' last='Wallace-Johnson'] of DeLaSalle (Soph)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2120498' first='Blake' last='Nixon'] of Academy of Holy Angels (Jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->