Two teams from southeast Minnesota remain at the top of their class in the latest High School boys basketball rankings released from Minnesota Basketball News Wednesday.
With the Girls State Basketball Tournament set to get underground next week, only the boys’ rankings were published. You can see the latest girls’ basketball rankings here.
The Section 1 Girls’ Championship games will be played on Thursday and Friday this week. The matchups are below:
Section 1A Championship – #1 Hayfield vs. #3 Grand Meadow – Thursday, March 10th at 6 pm (You can listen to the game on 103.1 KFIL)
Section 1AA Championship- #2 Rochester Lourdes vs. #5 Lake City – Thursday, March 10th at 8 pm
Section 1AAA Championship – #1 Austin vs. #2 Stewartville – Friday, March 11th at 8 pm
Section 1AAAA Championship – #1 Rochester John Marshall vs. #2 Lakeville North – Friday, March 11th at 6 pm
Scoreboard at 2018 MSHSL State Boys Basketball Tournament. Photo by Gordy Kosfeld
Minnesota Boys Basketball Rankings
Hayfield is ranked #1 in Class A, while Caledonia is #1 in Class AA. Rushford-Peterson, Spring Grove, and Goodhue remained ranked in Class A. Plainview-Elgin-Millville, Lake City, and LaCrescent-Hokah are also ranked in Class AA.
Austin and Stewartville are ranked in Class AAA. Owatonna is the lone-ranked area team in Class AAAA.
Check out the full set of rankings below.
Class A
1. Hayfield
2.New York Mills
3. Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s
4. Hancock
5. Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa
6. Central MN Christian
7. Martin County West
8. Rushford-Peterson
9. Cass Lake Bena
10. Nevis
11.Spring Grove
12.Ashby
13. Fertile-Beltrami
14.Henning
15.Sacred Heart
16. Goodhue
17. Southwest MN Christian
18. New Life Academy
19.Cherry
20. Mankato Loyola
Class AA
1. Caledonia
2. Minneapolis North
3. Minnehaha Academy
4. Plainview-Elgin-Millville
5. Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta
6.Maple River
7. Lake City
8. Annandale
9.Rockford
10.Osakis
11. Blackberry
12. Lake Crystal-Wellcome Memorial
13.Albany
14. Hiawatha Collegiate
15. The Crescent-Hokah
16. Esko
17. West Central Area
18.Pipestone
19.Maranatha Christian
20. Pequot Lakes
Class AAA
1.Columbia Heights
2. Totino-Grace
3. South St. Paul
4. DeLaSalle
5. Princeton
6.Alexandra
7. Mankato West
8. Mankato East
9. Austin
10. Mahtomedi
11. Orono
12. St Thomas Academy
13. Simley
14.Hibbing
15. Benilde-St. Margaret’s
16.Two Rivers
17. New-Ulm
18.Stewartville
19. Mound-Westonka
20.Hermantown
Class AAAA
1. Park Center
2.Shakepee
3.Wayzata
4.East Ridge
5. Osseo
6.Owatonna
7.Eastview
8.Farmington
9. Lakeville North
10. Minnetonka
11. Park. Cottage Grove
12.Hopkins
13. Eden Prairie
14. Tartan
15. Cretin-Derham Hall
16.Andover
17. Coon Rapids
18. Edina
19. Bloomington-Jefferson
20. Minneapolis South
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