Winning Matters

#1 posting 6.4.2006
Your Daily Dose of Girls Basketball News & Infomation.

RESULTS FROM THE HOPKINS INVITATIONAL
16UBlue Pool
North Tartan 67, Summit Blue 49
North Tartan 75, MN Metro Stars White 67
North Tartan 69, MN Stars 19s 52
MN Metro Stars 19s 66, MN Stars White 42
MN Metro Stars 19s 83, Summit Blue 37
MN Metro Stars White 52, Summit Blue 41
16URed Pool
South of the River Racers 45, MN Swish 41
South of the River Racers 53, Queens of the Court 40
South of the River Racers 68, Summit Blue 19 64
Summit Blue 19 52, Elite Storm 42
Summit Blue 19 68, Queens of the Court 34
Swish 46, Elite Storm 38
Swish 53, Queens of the Court 37
Elite Storm 60, Queens of the Court 43
Out & Abouts to follow
Monday evening---North Tartan vs Metro Stars 19s
Tuesday evening---Metro Stars White 16s vs Summit Blue
Wednesday evening---Elite Storm vs Queens of the Court

WINNING MATTERS
Here is a look at the top four MN 16u teams, what they have picked up from the HS season. The order of the teams is how they finished in the MN 16u State finals.
Team, #players Section champs, #players All Conference, Class, winning % (class refers to the four class system 4=AAAA, 3=AAA, 2=AA, 1=A
1. North Tartan, 4, 9, 3.3, .792
2. Triple Threat 4, 6, 3.4, .625
3. MN Stars 1, 9, 2.7, .6317
4. MN Metro Stars Black 1, 7, 3.8, .6316

You can see the top two finishers had four players each reach the HS state tournament. Both NT and MN Stars had 9 all conference players rostered. The clearest difference came in HS Winning % with NT dominating with a .792 percentage. Six NT players came from teams that won .800 of their HS games. The best any other team could do was four.

COACHING NEWS
COLLEGE
Vera Jones and Marc Wilson have been named as assistants at Indiana. Jones played with new Indiana coach Felisha Legette-Jack at Syracuse. Jones recently was an assistant at Dayton. Wilson used to be an assistant at Minnesota during the Cheryl Littlejohn era 1997-2001. He also has assisted at Rhode Island 2001-04 and Kent State 2004-06. Wilson played at Minnesota from 1982-86. Here is the Indiana press release

COACHING OPENINGS

VERBALS

HAWAIIAN ALL STATE
Shawna-Lei Kuehu, Punahou has been named player of the year in Hawaii by the Honolulu Star Bulletin. Her story and also the coach of the year Mike Taylor of Punahou along with the "Fab 15" are listed. An interesting side note--not one player was listed above 6-0 on the listings including honorable mention players.

POLICE BLOTTER
HI
Here is how Lanai has coped with the problems with coaches allegedly giving alcohol to players. The incident took place in 2005. This story is from the Maui News.

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