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Studying The Four Factors At State
In past seasons, I've done a Hubie Brown like analysis of the games of the state tournament. In that analysis I looked at turnovers, free throws and shooting percentage. Since it is the era of...
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2017 Comets Shootout 17U Preview
Its time to kick off another AAU season. That means the annual trip to St. Cloud for the Comets Shootout. As usual the 17s will start late with 3 games at 3:00, 4 more at 4:10 and the final 9 openers...
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2017 Open Period 1
The 1st D1 open period of the 2017 AAU season is upon us with back to back open weekends. Now this weekend there's nothing of note going on locally. Just a couple of minor tourneys. But here's where...
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2017 Open Period 2 17U Look ahead
Its another open period week on the AAU schedule. This week the big notable event locally is the NY2LA Spring Extravaganza taking place at Hopkins, Eden Prairie and Minnetonka. NY2LA league games for...
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2017 Week 1 Sanford League Preview
So the April open periods are now behind us. Now we move into May where there are a couple more weeks for the D2 schools to be out. While the shoe companies and NY2LA played their league games during...
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Looking back at 10 years
Today marks the 10 year anniversary of the creation of this site and my entry in the local high school hoops scene. Who would have thought this would last this long? This ride is an amazing roller...
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Thoughts from 2017 GPA
Another quality weekend at the Great Plains Alliance in St. Cloud. Champioship games in St. Cloud never seem to disappoint and they didn't this weekend either. We had 2 overtime title games and the...
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Vegas 2017 Part 1 (MN Teams)
The annual adventure known as the Las Vegas recruiting period has completed for 2017. So much to talk about that I'm going to split it into 2 parts. This post will deal with the Minnesota teams that...
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Vegas 2017 Part 2 (The Rest)
This is part 2 of my writings on what I saw in Las Vegas during the 2017 recruiting period. Part 1 was about the Minnesota teams so read that here if you missed it. In this post, everything else that...
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2017 Summer Stockraisers
So after watching another season of grassroots hoops here are 10 names that stuck out to me as improving their stock in the recruiting world. I've limited the list to 17U kids only since that's the...
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Welcome to Czar Season 11
Its that time of year again. As is tradition here on Labor Day weekend, I move forward to the new school year and another season of high school hoops. Its my 11th season and I've provided all the...
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How the WI Realignment Plan Might Look in MN
There's a very interesting development going on in Wisconsin right now regarding classification. The WIAA, Wisconsin's version of the MSHSL, is pushing a new plan for realigning sections based on a...
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2017-18 TCAC Division A and Independents Preview
This is the first preview in the 2017-2018 season preview series. This is 11th annual edition of this series and we'll go for 6 weeks leading up to the start of practice November 20th . The previews...
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2017-18 TCAC Divisions B and C Preview
This is the second preview in the 2017-2018 season preview series. The 6 week preview series moves along with a 2 for 1 preview of Division B and Division C of the Twin Cities Athletic Conference....
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2017-18 MCAA Preview
This is the third preview in my 2017-18 season preview series. Week 1 of the 6 week series moves on with a look at the Minnesota Christian Athletic Association (MCAA). For a list of all the season...
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2017-18 IMAC Preview
This is the 4th preview in my 2017-2018 season preview series. Week 1 of the 6 week series fully transitions to local class AA and higher schools with a look at the Independent Metro Athletic...
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2017-18 Tri-Metro Preview
This is the 5th preview in my 2017-2018 season preview series. Week 1 of the 6 week long series concludes with a look at the Tri-Metro Conference. For a list of all the season previews and how they...
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2017-18 St. Paul City Conference Preview
This is the 6th preview in my 2017-2018 season preview series. In Week 1, it was suburban schools and private schools. To start week 2, we move to the city schools. That equals a look at the St....
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2017-18 Minneapolis City Preview
This is the 7th preview in my 2017-2018 season preview series. Yesterday was the St. Paul City Conference, now equal time for the Minneapolis City Conference. For a list of all the season previews,...
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2017-18 Metro East Conference Preview
This is the 8th preview in my 2017-2018 season preview series. Thanks to the traditional MEA break, we'll end this 2nd week of previews here with a look at the Metro East Conference. For a list of...
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