CODY SCHILLING SIGNS WITH AUGUSTANA

THE FOLLOWING IS FROM STEVENSSPORTS.BLOGSPOT.COM

According to John Millea of the Minneapolis StarTribune, Cody Schilling signed a letter of intent to go play basketball at Augustana College in Sioux Falls South Dakota. Cody Schilling is Minnesota’s all time boy’s basketball leading scorer.

This information has been confirmed by Mark Kellen.

FORMER GOPHER COACH GETS HIRED AT WESTERN ILLINOIS

Jim Molinari who was an assistant for the Minnesota Gophers and who was Dan Monson’s assistant when he got fired mid way through the 2006-2007 basketball season got hired as the head coach at Western Illinois. Jim Molinari replaces Derek Thomas who resigned on March 11 after 5 seasons.

MINNEAPOLIS SOUTHWEST COACHES OUT

I am hearing reports that the Contracts of Tony Taylor and Brian Myer are not going to be renewed. They were the co head coaches for the Men's basketball team at Minneapolis Southwest high school.

CORRY ROCKNE JOHNSON LEAVING IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY

Corry Rockne Johnson, from Duluth Minnesota, is planning on leaving Iowa State University men's basketball program according the University website.
Corry Johnson played his high school basketball at Duluth East high school.
I have not heard where he is planning on transferring to, but I will keep you updated when I do hear of anything else.

MR BASKETBALL FINALISTS ANNOUNCED

The five finalists for the Mr. Basketball award have been announced. The Mr. Basketball Awards banquet will be on Sunday April 27th 2008 at 5:00 pm at the Minneapolis Marriott West. The finalists are:

Jared Berggren - Princeton
Michel Floyd – Cretin-Derham Hall
Cody Shilling - Ellsworth
Jordan Taylor - Benilde-St.Margaret’s
Anthony Tucker - Minnetonka

LOCAL STAR IN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME

Cole David Aldrich who played his high school basketball at Bloomington Jefferson is playing basketball and going to school at Kansas this year. His Kansas team will play for the National Championship on Monday night against Memphis.
Cole Aldrich is a freshman this year and he is averaging 2.9 points per game. Good luck in the game on Monday night.

ALL STARS SHINE IN FINAL GAME

The game got close towards the end but in the end the Blue team ended up beating the Green team by the final score of 99-88. The leading scorer for the Blue team was Lief Nomeland he had 19 points.
This game was another out standing display of action for both sides of the ball. Each player should be congratulated on a season well done. Good luck to all of the players who put on a wonderful show this weekend.

SECOND ALL STAR GAME IS AT THE HALF

In the second game of the all star series it has come to the half. Once again this looks like a game where there is not much defense. The Blue team is ahead of the Green team by the score of 51-42. The leading scorers for the blue team are Leief Nomelang (10) and Jordan Taylor (9). Each of these teams are doing a lot of tricks when they go up with the ball and try to score. There is not much intensity out there. The players will do there most part to let the other team to have there fun. A lot of the guys will throw up shots to the basket and hoping some one will get up and dunk it.
The coaches are having fun also. The coaches are not up and coaching there kids. They are coaching don’t get me wrong but they are not in it for themselves they just want to have each of the kids have fun and enjoy themselves.

SATURDAYS FIRST GAME IS IN THE BOOOKS

The first game is in the books. The Maroon All Stars beat the Gold all stars by the final score of 121-109 The leading scorers for the Maroon all stars were Jared Berggren (23) Armond Battle (22) Colin Utke (19). This game was fun to watch because it had a lot of hype and it was up and down. Each trip was up and down the court. This was like a show case and a guess on what the players were going to do. Both teams were playing very little defense.

Halftime in Saturday's first game

In the first game we have reached halftime. It has been a game that has been up and down. There are a lot of dunks and a lot of open scoring. The score is at the half is Gold 60 and Maroon 58. The leading scorers for the Gold team is Anthony Tucker (16) and Theo Rothstein (11) from St. Michael-Albertville. This game will be back and forth in the second half. There will be a lot of points scored.
There is a light crowd to watch this game. I am surprised to see how many people are here. I was expecting a larger crowd. Tony is dropping pins the crowd is so quite.

CHANGE OF VENUE FOR THE SECOND DAY OF ALL STAR GAME

With the change of venue for the second day of the 2008 Minnesota State High School Boys Basketball Coaches Association the action is at Concordia University in St Paul. The Gold and the Maroon All Stars kick it off. Then the Blue and the Green All Stars will take to the court. The teams were chosen by the boys high school basketball coaches. These are some of the top elite players in the state and the all star game is a way to showcase their talent. After the players were chosen they were all picked for different teams. This all star series has been going on since 1987. The series used to be an in-state out-state series. In 1998 was the last time that they had the instate out state series. In 1999 the All Star Game changed to the current format which is the teams are picked with no relation to where they went to high school. Now the in-state players play on the same teams as the out-state players.

THE GREEN TEAM WINS

In a game that was up and down the Green Team beats the Maroon team by the final score of 109-93. The leading scorer for the green team was Bobby Fong (15). The Green team will take on the Blue team tomorrow afternoon for the championship in this two day event.

GAME 2 AT THE HALF

The score of the second game is Green All Stars 58 and the Maroon All Stars 46. The leading scorer for the Green team is Bryce Tesdahl he has 9 points. Look for this game to come down to the wire.

THE FIRST GAME IS IN THE BOOKS

In a game that was up and down the Blue team beat the Gold team by the final score of 105-77. The leading scorers for the Blue team were Jordan Taylor (21) David Hanson(18) Jordan Hicks (16) Carrington Tankston (11) The game was up and down but in the second half the Blue team pulled away. The Blue team will play the winner of the next game, Maroon vs. Green, tomorrow afternoon in St. Paul.

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TIGHT GAME AT THE HALF

At the Half we have a tight game with the Blue Team and the Gold Team tied at 46. The leading scorer for the Blue Team is Jordan Hicks (10) and for the Gold team it is Jordan Cunningham (10). Look for both teams to score a lot of points.

WELLCOME TO THE 2OO8 ALL STAR SERIES

With a light crowd at Halenbeck Hall the Minnesota Basketball Coaches Association 2008 Boys Basketball All Star Game got underway. The first order of business was the Slam Dunk contest. The players that participated were Emeka Okafor, Theo Rothstein, and Jordan Hicks. The winner of the first slam dunk contest was Jordan Hicks from Rochester Mayo.

BOYS STATE TOURNAMENT ATTENDANCE

The attendance for the Boys State Tournament was 69,657
The attendance for the Class A and AA final 6,953
The attendance for the Class AAA and AAA 10,272
The attendance for the first day at Mariucci was 11,663

2008 All Star Series

The Minnesota State Boys Basketball Coaches Association will be having their 2008 All Star series this weekend in St Cloud and St Paul.

On Friday night the games will be at St Cloud State University and on Saturday the games will be at Concordia University in St Paul. The game times on Friday are 7 and 8:45 pm and then the games on Saturday are 2:15 and 4:00 pm.

BENIDLE BEATS ST THOMAS IN THE REMATCH

Benilde-St. Margaret's beat St. Thomas Academy by the final score of 58-52. This game was back and forth. It was a rematch from last years game in which St. Thomas won. So it was Benilde's turn this year. Benilde-St.Margaret's was lead in scoring by Jordan Taylor (20)and Armond Battle had (14). Way to go both teams nice job in a game well played.