I live in Colorado where the teams all get seeded, those two would have met in a final four here. I can't image doing regions as there are two main counties of basketball riches. The metro teams of Denver and Aurora. Then the money schools in the south suburbs. Usually 8-9 of the top 10 teams are from these two areas.
I have an old friend who just retired. His grandson, Cade Palmer, won with his team in the CO state tournament last year. I think it was big school, but I am not sure. I don't know where his grandson went to play college ball. I thought he was considering Denver University, but I don't think I saw him on the roster.
Andover
Minnesota high school state playoffs are wrong and have been for a long time.
Fair enough, though none of Andover's wins appeared to be competitive, so I guess we'll see.
Please elaborate.
Since the 4-class split, wins by teams out of Section 7AAAA have been few and far between. The only ones I know for sure have been Rick Rickert's Duluth East teams from the early 2000s. There may be a few others when Osseo was in Section 7. I'll have to look in the program next week.
I vote, with my nonexistent vote, that all state championship brackets should be seeded teams based on regular season results. No section playoffs, no "everyone makes it" nonsense.
When I was a Junior at Blaine, they made the tournament, but lost in the quarterfinals to the eventual state champions Chaska. Patrick O'Bryant, who played two years at Bradley then was a lottery pick for the Celtics, got in early foul trouble against Tollackson and Blaine just didn't have the guard quality that Chaska did either.
Owatonna beat Farmington 69-61
This really demonstrates how dumb 6a football is as a concept.
I heard that Mounds View gave Park Center all they wanted in the semi finals
6A football has been a godsend. Never heard a complaint until this post.
Park Center beat em by 14. In fact, 26/28 of PC's wins have been by double digits.
Was at the MV @ PC game. It was tied early in the 2nd half, and PC led by 4-8 most of the rest of the game. Final result was 14 points, but the game was not decided until the final couple of minutes. PC did not shoot the ball very well.
godsend to who?
You could be exactly right, but I can't see them dumping those 32 back into 5A.
No Payne??? WTH?
So you would rather it harm 32 more teams by having it be a 64 team class? It sucks for 15-20 teams sure, but it opened doors for the 32 who now play 5A. It made the balancing and enrollment matches a lot closer. I'm sure it does suck if you are a struggling 6A team, but it was worse before.
Injured the whole first month.
Boston College, Minnesota, Michigan State, Iowa State; you would think Dodd could play somewhere decent, right?
No. This has nothing to do with playoffs. It has to do with regular season.