high school basketball

The Minnesota Basketball News provides state rankings for the Associated Press and their final poll for the 2016-17 season is finished. The Big Nine Conference finished with four rated teams, three of them in Class AAA. No. 4 Winona is heading to this week's state tournament and defeated No...

The Goodhue Wildcat boys basketball team did what the girls team did the previous week: ended the season of the Faribault Bethlehem Academy Cardinals. The Cardinals hung with the No. 4 Class A state-ranked team for most of the first half, but the Wildcats enjoyed a 35-27 lead at the half...

The Northfield Raiders will be playing for a state tournament berth this Friday night at the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester. Their opponent will be No. 2-ranked Austin. I know head coach Andy Berkvam and his staff will come up with a good game plan in an attempt to knock off the highly touted Packers...

The Pine Island Panthers went into Saturday's Section 1AA semifinal believing they could knock off the kings of the area the past few seasons. The only problem is they ran into not one but two Kings: brothers 6-foot-3 junior Owen King and 6-foot-1 freshman Noah King...

The Goodhue Wildcats girls basketball team is heading back to the Class A tournament they dominated a year ago to defend their state title. Goodhue pulled away from an upset-minded Fillmore Central Falcon team 64-42 Friday night to repeat as Section 1A champions...

The Kenyon-Wanamingo girls basketball team had about a three-minute stretch in Friday's game where they didn't score and their defense didn't get stops. That translated into a Rochester Lourdes 67-61 win, but Knights head coach Brent Lurken couldn't be prouder of his team...

The Goodhue Wildcats girls basketball team is seeded No. 2 in the Class A Tournament and open play Thursday afternoon at 3PM in Mariucci Arena on the University of Minnesota campus. The Wildcats' opponent will be Granada-Huntley-East Chain/Truman/Martin Luther out of Section 2...

The Faribault Falcons had to face the Marshall Tigers on Saturday, without the services of Kade Hart and Tristan leavans-Haynes, and lost to the Tigers 60-43. The Falcons did a good job of running a patient offense in the first half and kept it close...

The NRHEG girls rallied from a 15-2 deficit to beat Norwood-Young America 53-45 for the Section 2AA and earn a trip to the state tournament.

The Waterville-Elysian-Morristown Buccaneers came into Thursday night's Section 2 Class 2A South Subsection semifinal game with a 19-game winning streak. Unfortunately they ran into another hot team in the Fairmont Cardinals. The Cardinals were able to do something most opponents could not this season, and that's score a lot of points...