The MCAA Preview

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Legacy Christian won the league by a game a year ago. This conference has a bit of a new look this year but Legacy is still a top team. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Conference Commentary</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>League Title Contender</strong>: Heritage Christian Academy, Legacy Christian Academy, Mayer Lutheran, Spectrum</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Heritage Christian is a top ten team in Class A basketball coming into the season with all of their seniors from a roster that returns just about everything. They are the heavy favorite in this league and a title contender overall for state. The Legacy Christian line-up took a blow to graduation and transfer but don't overlook this team just because they have lost three of their top four guys. There is a next wave of players moving into their senior year and it's led by Drew Mulvihill who scored a dozen a game last season. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Mayer Lutheran moves into this league and they will step right into contender status. With most of their line-up back and a scorer they can lean on, the Crusaders move into a league that is more suiting to their roster and they will compete right away. Spectrum returns two of their top three scorers/statistical producers but their line-up has been cut about in half, plus Carter Femrite will be a tough player to replace overall. Spectrum is a contender and in a good spot, and likely the North favorite. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Compete with Most</strong>: Eagle Ridge, PACT, United Christian, West Lutheran</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Eagle Ridge has a couple nice upperclassmen mixed with a few good older players coming off of a ten win season. I could see them pushing to .500 or just over it this year. PACT might have a better upperclassmen but I see them and Eagle Ridge in a very similar spot this year. They are experienced and talented enough to be competitive but maybe not deep enough to beat the top teams. United Christian lost their top scorer but a great majority of the rest of the team returns meaning this could be a team at that .500 level of play which would be a nice step forward. West Lutheran was a 19 win team that lost their two major scorers. They do return a pair of 9-10 a game guys plus some reserves so they should still be able to compete but this year it will be closer to battling to try and be .500. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Rebuilding</strong>: Lakes International, North Lakes</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I don't know that Lakes International is a full rebuild as they have two or three guys back from last year's team, but they lost several starters. North Lakes won only six games last season and they lost most of their starting line-up to graduation. They are in a true rebuild for this 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><em>Power Rankings</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(1) Heritage Christian Academy</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(2) Mayer Lutheran</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(3) Legacy Christian </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(4) Spectrum </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(5) PACT</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(6) United Christian</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(7) West Lutheran</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(8) Eagle Ridge</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(9) Lakes International</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(10) North Lakes</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>North</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(1) Spectrum</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(2) Legacy Christian </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(3) PACT</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(4) Lakes International</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(5) North Lakes</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>South</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(1) Heritage Christian Academy</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(2) Mayer Lutheran </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(3) United Christian</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(4) West Lutheran</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(5) Eagle Ridge</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Preseason All MCAA Team</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>First Team</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2175462' first='Joshua' last='Sokeye'] of Heritage Christian (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2109935' first='Abu' last='Tarawallie'] of Heritage Christian (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1617853' first='Nathan' last='Lindesmith'] of Mayer Lutheran (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Drew Mulvihill of Legacy Christian (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2124229' first='Josiah' last='Hendley'] of United Christian Academy (Jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>Second Team</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1617792' first='Owen' last='Haag'] of Heritage Christian (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Braden Nelson of Spectrum (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2570675' first='Jordan' last='Williams'] of Spectrum (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>King Davis of Eagle Ridge (Soph)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Karsten Kromschroeder of West Lutheran (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>Third Team</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Tim Cherenkevich of PACT (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Brandon Knebel of West Lutheran (Jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2125730' first='Ben' last='Lindesmith'] of Mayer Lutheran (Soph)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Samuel Rich of United Christian (Jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Joshua Clark of Mayer Lutheran (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>Fourth Team</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Jonah Moulton of Heritage Christian (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Solomon Kardell of Legacy Christian (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Carson Anderson of Legacy Christian (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Mo Massaquoi of Eagle Ridge (Soph)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1819128' first='Bryce' last='Gaustad'] of PACT (Soph)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>Fifth Team</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Damarion Dillard of Nortth Lakes (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Maxwel Sandstrom of Lakes International (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2140590' first='Cody' last='Benson'] of Spectrum (Soph)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2821787' first='Nils' last='Johansson'] of Eagle Ridge (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2382257' first='Eli' last='Miller'] of Spectrum (Jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->