I was down last night watching the local team. Crowds seamed small but it was a Tuesday night. Will be back down Friday to watch the semi-finales and hopefully Saturday. Anyone else going to be down watching.
Assuming your talking about MN? I try to watch as many of the WI state that will be going on Thursday – Saturday in between the NCAA games. Love this time of year for sports.
I can’t figure out when the mshsl is going to take these private schools out of the tournament and put the in there own high school tournament or make them play up, they recruit the best players, when smaller schools get who you have going to said school! Doesn’t seem fair to public school kids!!!!
How hard is it to recruit to a private school? I would think any responsible parent would jump at the chance to get their kid out of Minnesotas public schools.
Dutch the public schools in SE MN are not the same as the cities public schools I am just saying 2aa school private should be playing 3aa teams and so on
Congrats Alexandria! 
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Some of the Public Schools are getting no better then Private schools. Cherry has two Kids Sundquist and Brown who Transferred in. On the Girls side Crosby best to players are transfers even their Media guy stated it. The one unfair advantage a private school has is being able to manipulate their enrollement
Was some great championship games and crowds. I was down their Friday and Saturday and Albany as able to pull off the perfect season.
I can’t figure out when the mshsl is going to take these private schools out of the tournament and put the in there own high school tournament or make them play up, they recruit the best players, when smaller schools get who you have going to said school! Doesn’t seem fair to public school kids!!!!
Totally agree WI used to have a seperate league but now it’s the same. Private school 2-3 divisions down and pick from the same athelet’s. In one of the division 3 games here they had 3 players having scholarships in div 1 schools. That never happenend 30 years ago.
Some of the Public Schools are getting no better then Private schools. Cherry has two Kids Sundquist and Brown who Transferred in. On the Girls side Crosby best to players are transfers even their Media guy stated it.
I can’t imagine anyone moved to Cherry or Crosby for basketball. These are likely kids in neighboring communities who open enrolled, which is done for academics, music, theatre, etc. and nbd in my humble opinion.
Well one girl moved from Duluth Marshall to Crosby if she had transferred she would have had to sit out a year. So they are either moving or finding a loop hole.
I love the State Tournament….. Odd year though.
Boys
A – Outstate public vs Outstate public
AA – Outstate public vs Outstate public
AAA – Outstate public vs Outstate public
AAAA – high tax bracket west metro public vs Private East metro
lots of great players and stories.
The Games on Friday and Saturday made for a great day of watching basketball. The crowds were big and loud both days.
I thought the small school 1A final was the best of the games I watched even the much bigger schools. Back and forth the whole time.
Great year for Central MN, congrats to Alex and Albany!
My take on the private vs public… not that anyone cares on my take…
background …. played HS in WI at a private HS. I played when the private and public HS’s had separate state tournaments. I played in 3 WISAA state tournaments. My school was small but in a larger town. We also had a private school conference. Our nonconference schedule was filled with much bigger schools back then though (Hudson, Rice lake, Menomonie, De LaSalle (MN) etc)… we only played the smaller public schools for “warm up games”.. Back then when we didn’t compete in public state we still got accused of recruiting…. I always told people we didn’t have to because we were the only option around for families that didn’t want a public school education or wanted more opportunity to play (less kids).
today my HS now plays in a public school conference against similar SIZE schools and to no suprise they normally dominate. Plus the other schools that were in the old private school conference dominate their new respective conferences and go far into the section or to state frequently.
one big difference in WI vs MN is the public schools don’t have open enrolment or if they do it isn’t quite as simple as MN.
what I would like to see in MN ……..
Because the public schools in the metro act the same as private schools (in sports)….. every metro school must participate in AAAA. The enrollment may not be as high at Minneapolis North or Breck but they have an opportunity to pull from a large population (300,000+) within a 30 minute drive. sorry to all those tiny Christian schools but it isn’t a level playing field for the vast majority of A-AAA schools…. Caledonia has a couple thousand people to pull from within a hour radius for example.
Also, the small number of private schools that are in the other larger towns in MN. (Mankato Loyola, Rochester Lourdes, St Cloud Cathedral, Duluth Marshall) should also have to at least be AA for the same reason as I mentioned above. (FYI… it would mean my boys would have to move up in Mankato)
I am not sure how some get around the transfer rules once in 9th grade. But I assume places like Cretin have no trouble “finding” an apartment (change of address) for Ty Schlagel to get around an Eden Prairie to Cretin move. But my suggestion would at least make them all play in one spot. not take away from the more pure divisions like A and AA.
my 2 cents….
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