Minnesota Basketball News has updated their girls high school basketball rankings in each of the four classes.  The Top 20 are listed in each class.

Class 1A Hancock is #1, Class 2A Providence Academy, Class 3A Becker and Class 4A Hopkins are chosen to be on top.

Several teams from the area are featured meaning MSHSL State Tournament time could be fun again in March.

The Class 1A Top 20 is listed courtesy of the Minnesota Basketball News.

  1. Hancock
  2. Mountain Iron-Buhl
  3. Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart
  4. Minneota
  5. Mayer Lutheran
  6. Hayfield
  7. Underwood
  8. Fosston
  9. Lac qui Parle Valley
  10. Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa
  11. Grand Meadow
  12. Tracy-Milroy-Balaton
  13. Kelliher-Northome
  14. BOLD
  15. Braham
  16. Henning
  17. Badger-Greenbush-Middle River
  18. Breckenridge
  19. Goodridge-Grygla
  20. Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg

Class 2A

  1. Providence Academy
  2. Minnehaha Academy
  3. St. Croix Lutheran
  4. Montevideo
  5. Lake Crystal-Wellcome Memorial
  6. New London-Spicer
  7. Perham
  8. Duluth Marshall
  9. Albany
  10. Goodhue
  11. Rocheser Lourdes
  12. Sauk Centre
  13. Holy Family
  14. Luverne
  15. Minneapolis Roosevelt
  16. Pine City
  17. Caledonia
  18. Pierz
  19. Southwest Christian
  20. Chatfield

Class 3A

  1. Becker
  2. Benilde-St. Margaret's
  3. Jordan
  4. Holy Angels
  5. Marshall
  6. Grand Rapids
  7. Alexandria
  8. Byron
  9. Stewartville
  10. Red Wing
  11. Orono
  12. Cloquet
  13. Detroit Lakes
  14. Mahtomedi
  15. North St. Paul
  16. Monticello
  17. St. Peter
  18. Hill-Murray
  19. Austin
  20. New Prague

Class 4A

  1. Hopkins
  2. St. Michael-Albertville
  3. Eden Prairie
  4. Chaska
  5. Wayzata
  6. Rosemount
  7. East Ridge
  8. Minnetonka
  9. Maple Grove
  10. Lakeville South
  11. Anoka
  12. White Bear Lake
  13. Lakeville North
  14. Stillwater
  15. Rochester Mayo
  16. Rogers
  17. Champlin Park
  18. Elk River
  19. Blaine
  20. Cambridge-Isanti

The Rochester Rotary Holiday Classic girls and boys basketball tournament announced this week that next week will be the final Rotary sponsored event after a 34 year run.

The event at the Rochester Mayo Civic Center will be held December 29-30.

The photo of Paige Ford from Randolph, Mn. is her signing a National Letter of Intent to attent NCAA Division III North Central University in Minneapolis, Mn. and play basketball.

Ford became the 7th female to score 1,000 points in Randolph school history.

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