The Weekend Standouts: Ethan Martin is a Mr. Basketball guy

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>We talked about [player_tooltip player_id='2118474' first='Ethan' last='Martin'] potentially being a top ten Mr. Basketball guy? This week he led his team to two big wins while keeping his team at number one in state. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>1AA Belle Plaine vs 8AA Caledonia</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Prediction. <strong>WRONG</strong>. I said Caledonia by a score, it was Belle Plaine by a score. Belle Plaine entered the week as a 5-0 team ranked number one in state. With road games at Marshall and in Rochester I thought the weight of number one might be too much, and Belle Plaine proved they can handle it. And [player_tooltip player_id='2118474' first='Ethan' last='Martin']..... time to talk about Ethan as a Top Ten Mr. Basketball guy.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Martin scored 36 to dominate Marshall and then went on the road and scored 26 to help his team beat Caledonia by a score. He is also getting help from guys like Logan Anderson, [player_tooltip player_id='2792633' first='Caden' last='Koepp'], and [player_tooltip player_id='2848167' first='Mason' last='Manthe']. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>2AAA DeLaSalle at 3AAA Richfield</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Prediction.WRONG. I picked the Islanders by a basket, and Richfield won by a point. We broke this down in detail at the article linked below!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:embed {"url":"https://prephoops.com/2026/01/richfield-proves-they-are-a-class-aaa-title-contender/","type":"wp-embed","providerNameSlug":"prep-hoops"} --> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-prep-hoops wp-block-embed-prep-hoops"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> https://prephoops.com/2026/01/richfield-proves-they-are-a-class-aaa-title-contender/ </div></figure> <!-- /wp:embed --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>East Ridge at 1AAA Totino-Grace</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Prediction.<strong> WRONG</strong>. In a 20 point swing! Man.... I said TG by 13, and East Ridge won by seven. And [player_tooltip player_id='1560882' first='Cedric' last='Tomes'] had the game of the season scoring 50 points. FIFTY. It's hard not to think that Tomes, who has his team at 7-2 and has to score in boatloads AND create for his team, isn't the current favorite for Mr. Basketball. Tome is having a special year averaging 33 points a game at a top AAAA school with a tough schedule. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>7AA Pequot Lakes vs 8AA Caledonia</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Prediction. CORRECT. I said Caledonia by a score, they won 59-55. [player_tooltip player_id='2387331' first='Grant' last='King'] hit six threes and scored 27 points leading the Warriors to a high quality win that will basically have the 7th team in the rankings (PL) and the 8th (Caledonia) switching spots. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>1A Cherry vs Blake</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Prediction. CORRECT. I said Cherry by two baskets and they won by one basket. What I didn't expect was that [player_tooltip player_id='1601068' first='Noah' last='Asuma'] was going to score 30 points, Calub Brown was going to step up and score 26 for Cherry, and that in a loss.... [player_tooltip player_id='2118459' first='Carson' last='McMichael'] went for 40! </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>So when your child is counting by tens tonight think [player_tooltip player_id='1601068' first='Noah' last='Asuma'] for 30, [player_tooltip player_id='2118459' first='Carson' last='McMichael'] at 40, and [player_tooltip player_id='1560882' first='Cedric' last='Tomes'] at the number 50!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>4AAA Mahtomedi at Byron</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Prediction. CORRECT. I said Zephyrs by 12 and they flipped that around and won by 21. Big game from [player_tooltip player_id='2140712' first='Willie' last='Roelofs'] who scored 25 and [player_tooltip player_id='2822863' first='Andrew' last='Russell'] had ten giving Mahtomedi another double figure scorer again (four of them) which is big.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>I Saw It On Twitter!</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Bombers defeated Upsala 74-66. The Bombers had THREE double-doubles in the win. Junior Dominic Nahl made a name for himself scoring 24 points with 12 boards, he is a 6'4, 225 pound three sport athlete. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Garett Lidke gave Braham 23 points and ten boards, [player_tooltip player_id='2403777' first='Soren' last='Lilly'] had 21 points and 11 assists, and [player_tooltip player_id='2369272' first='Tyler' last='Eklund'] had a dozen assists in that win.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Cannon Falls beat Breck 84-58 and it was [player_tooltip player_id='2385822' first='Brooks' last='Rechtzigel'] and [player_tooltip player_id='2569260' first='Miles' last='Rechtzigel'] each scoring 23 points in the win. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Jaxon Bosche broke the Bemidji all time scoring record this weekend so congrats to him on that great accomplishment.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>In that same Buffalo vs Bemidji game, [player_tooltip player_id='2397563' first='Thomas' last='Jordan'] remains an all state level player at AAAA despite being a sophomore, as he scored 26 points. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Kirby Wymore scored 31 points for Coon Rapids (hit five triples according to the TC Hoops Czar) in a win over St. Francis,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Upset of the Weekend</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>St. Croix Prep had won six of their first eight. Hill-Murray had lost seven of their first eight including a double figure loss just the night before. Seemed like an obvious result, right? WRONG.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Junior Olaolowakitan Omoyeni had a team high 18 points (he is a 6'5 junior), 6'2 senior Noah Vanwhychen had 16 points and four assists, and 6'4 sophomore [player_tooltip player_id='2560501' first='Koa' last='Fuller'] had 12 points and seven boards to get the win!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->