2024-25 Metro West Conference Preview
This is the 13th preview in my 2024-2025 season preview series. Its now time for the big schools with the mostly class AAAA leagues are now on the list of previews. In this preview, a look at the...
View Article2024-25 Outstate AAAA Preview
This is the 14th preview in the 2024-2025 season preview series. We've covered all of the metro class A, AA and AAA leagues. Now its time to dive headfirst into the AAAA schools. I'll start with the...
View Article2024-25 NW Suburban Conference Preview
This is the 15th preview in my 2024-2025 season preview series. Its the final week of the preview series and that means its time for the metro big schools. In this preview, a look at the Northwest...
View Article2024-25 Suburban East Conference Preview
This is the 16th preview in my 2024-2025 season preview series. In this preview, I continue my look at the local big schools with a look at the Suburban East Conference. For a list of all the season...
View Article2024-25 South Suburban Conference Preview
This is the 17th preview in my 2024-25 Season Preview Series. In this preview, we head south for a look at the South Suburban Conference. For a list of all the season previews and how they are...
View Article2024-25 Lake Conference Preview
This is the 18th preview in my 2024-2025 season preview series. In this preview, I finish my look at my look at each of the metro area conferences with a look at the Lake Conference. There's 1 more...
View Article2024-25 Season In A Nutshell
The Czar's 2024-2025 Season Preview series concludes with the traditional Season In A Nutshell preview. Its a higher level season overview for the casual fans who don't eat, sleep and breathe hoops...
View Article2024 CDH Jamboree Thoughts
The 2024-25 Season is upon us. As usual its the traditional Cretin-Derham Hall Jamboree to get it all started. CDH with brand new fancy electronic scoreboards. A very nice addition to Joe Mauer...
View Article2024-25 Week 1: What did we learn?
Opening week of the 2024-25 season has completed. 3 days of games in the books. A few teams have played twice while most will open this week with the first big game night of the season being on...
View ArticleThoughts from the 2024 Tipoff Classic
The Breakdown Tipoff Classic has established itself as the top event of the season. As usual I took all the games on the main court. This year that was a single court at Hopkins with the 2nd court...
View Article2024-25 Week 2 - What did we learn?
The 1st complete week of the season included the 1st big event of the season. My thoughts on the Tipoff Classic main court can be found here. Here's what I noticed in the rest of the week.Team that...
View Article2024-25 Week 3 - What did we learn?
The 2nd full week of the 2024-25 season is in the books. Teams starting to get in the flow of things as we prepare for the holiday break. Here's what caught my eye this week. By the way, if you're...
View Article2024-25 Month 1 review
The 2024-25 season already has 1 month in the books. What sticks out to me? Let's go league by league.City/IndependentsHiawatha taking down Johnson and Harding on the St. Paul side. Then in...
View Article2025 Southside Super Showcase Review
We're quickly approaching the midpoint of the 2024-2025 season. Here's what has stuck out to me recently plus a look at the 2025 Southside Super Showcase2025 Southside Super Showcase ReviewGame 1: St....
View ArticleJanuary 20th, 2025 CzarPI
This is the 1st CzarPI of the 2024-25 season (see CzarPI Explained Here). This calculation includes games through Saturday, January 18th, 2024. The value in () after the CzarPI value is the team's...
View ArticleJanuary 26th, 2025 CzarPI
This is the 2nd CzarPI of the 2024-25 season (see CzarPI Explained Here). This calculation includes games through Saturday, January 25th, 2024. The value in () after the CzarPI value is the team's...
View ArticleFebruary 2nd, 2025 CzarPI
This is the 3rd CzarPI of the 2024-25 season (see CzarPI Explained Here). This calculation includes games through Saturday, February 1st, 2025. The value in () after the CzarPI value is the team's...
View Article2024-25 Season: Previewing the Stretch run
February is here and that means 2 months of the 2024-25 season are done. We're down to the final 1 month sprint to the playoffs. Let's go section by section thru applicable metro area sections and...
View ArticleFebruary 9th, 2025 CzarPI
This is the 4th CzarPI of the 2024-25 season (see CzarPI Explained Here). This calculation includes games through Saturday, February 8th, 2025. The value in () after the CzarPI value is the team's...
View ArticleFebruary 19, 2025 CzarPI
This is the 5th CzarPI of the 2024-25 season (see CzarPI Explained Here). This calculation includes games through Wednesday, February 19th, 2025. The value in () after the CzarPI value is the team's...
View ArticleFebruary 23, 2025 CzarPI
This is the 6th CzarPI of the 2024-25 season (see CzarPI Explained Here). This calculation includes games through Saturday, February 22nd, 2025. The value in () after the CzarPI value is the team's...
View ArticleFebrurary 28th, 2025 CzarPI
This is the 7th CzarPI of the 2024-25 season (see CzarPI Explained Here). This calculation includes games through Friday, February 28th, 2025. The value in () after the CzarPI value is the team's...
View Article2024-25 Composite Ranking
Here is a composite ranking within each class. It takes the QRF, CzarPI and 2 college football methods, then averages those 4 for a composite. Idea is to use multiple rankings to try to average out...
View Article2025 Better Than Chalk Section Predictions
The 2024-25 regular season is in the books. Now the playoffs are here. That means its time for the 2025 Better Than Chalk Section Predictions.Once again here are the rules. Any fool can pick nothing...
View ArticlePreviewing the 2025 AAAA Section Finals
The madness is here! The 8 section championship games are set in classes AAA and AAAA. Only 1 team that's not a top 2 seed made their section title game in the top 2 classes. That was 3 seed...
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