What Would the Class AAAA State Tournament Look Like Today?

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Its the second weekend of January and we are starting to get excited. So today we thought we would check on who would most likely be playing for state if it started today</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>STATE TOURNAMENT IF IT STARTED TODAY</strong></h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Let's start with what the section title games would likely look like today based on results after six weeks.....</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>1AAAA: Farmington vs Lakeville South </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>2AAAA: Eden Prairie vs Prior Lake</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>3AAAA: Eagan vs Apple Valley</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>4AAAA: Tartan vs Cretin-Derham Hall</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>5AAAA: Maple Grove vs Osseo</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>6AAAA: Wazyata vs Hopkins</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>7AAAA: Blaine vs Andover</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>8AAAA: Alexandria vs Moorhead</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Notes: When I look at the preseason predictions for these games the missing teams would be Mayo and Anoka (the other 2AAAA was a take your pick) so so far things are going as many expected things to go at the highest level. Blaine is one of the top surprise teams. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>And if you took the highest performing teams and seeded them for state......</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(1) Wayzata vs (8) Blaine</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(4) Alexandria vs (5) Farmington</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(2) Tartan vs (7) Eden Prairie</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(3) Maple Grove vs (6) Apple Valley</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Notes: I would say that right now these are my confidence ratings out of ten for each of these teams:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Farmington: 8 out of 10, I think they are just better than the rest</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Eden Prairie: 5 out of 10, I think this section is still quite open</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Apple Valley: 5 out of 10, Eagan is right there too and Rosemount coming along strong</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Tartan: 5 out of 10, CDH is right there too and likely gets the other 5</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Maple Grove: 10 out of 10, Don't see anybody in their section beating them</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Wayzata: 10 out of 10, Don't see anybody beating them in section</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Blaine: 4 out of 10, could go any way still</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Alexandria: 10 out of 10, Moorhead is the one team that I think could make a push and Alex beat them pretty good with Talan back playing like ten minutes. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>State Semi-finals most likely</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Wayzata vs Alexandira</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Tartan vs Maple Grove</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->