Bracketology Begins, Coaching Ban

#1 posting 7.15.2006
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COACHING NEWS
COLLEGE
Lisa Savoury has been named director of basketball operations at Eastern Michigan. She had been an assistant at the school. More on Savoury and her career are found in the EMU press release. Tiana Kirkland has been named an assistant and she replaces Mahogany Green who left for IPFW. Kirkland had recently been an assistant at Butler. Her story and background are found in her own EMU press release.
MN
Lynn Dalhed was named coach of Apple Valley earlier this summer. The local paper has a story on it now with the details on Dalhed's road to the job. Check out the This Week paper.

COACHING OPENINGS

One of the proposals making the rounds in the commission looking into open enrollment/transfer policy for Minnesota is either to ban or limit HS coaches from coaching AAU/All Star teams in the summer. Stay tuned.

TOURNAMENTS
MI
The Portland girls won the championship at the USSSA tournament in Tampa FL with a 59-38 win over Fairfax VA Cardinals. They were 5-1 in the tournament. Next up will be the opening day of practice on August 14. Read more in the Ionia Sentinel-Standard.

Miss Basketball Showcase
The first round games today in the championship bracket include
ECI Select West I plays Rocky Mountain Riot
Mpls Lady Lakers take on Southern Minne Magic
Iowa Elite I faces KC Keys
All Iowa Attack I plays Rocky Mountain Rockers I
IBCA Iowa Select I faces Kansas Swoosh
MN Summit battles KC Blue Streaks
Daubert Pinnacle Neb I sees Kansas Hoop Service I
IBCA Iowa Select II takes on SD Riders
SD Elite plays Iowa Lightning I
Northern Lites faces Missouri Valley Express I
Right now it looks as if Daubert Pinnacle Nebraska could face SD Elite in the Quarterfinals. Both teams reached the finals in the Dakota Showcase.
Find out tons more at the Miss Basketball Showcase.

AAU 13u
The 13u tournament begins in Kenner LA today. Iowa has one team entered--All Iowa Attack; Wisconsin has one team--Force. Minnesota has five making the journey south North Tartan; Lady Suns, Lady Cats; MN Starts, MN Metro Stars.
The 16s begin their bracket play today.
more on the 13 tournament and 16 tournament.
Coach Thorpe look at the site label on the 16s to find out where the games are played.

Nike Showcase
Only two area teams survived until the semifinals: MN Metro Stars 14 in the White division; MN Quest in the Green Division. more on the nike tournament.

AAU ROSTERS

VERBALS

TRANSFERS

MINNESOTA SUMMER SHOWCASE
This is a HS team tournament and it will be held at Rogers HS today and tomorrow. There are three divisions of 8 teams. Teams that made it to state last year include: Browerville and Barnum in the Gold division; Rogers, MN Valley Lutheran, Armstrong, and St. Michael-Albertville in the Blue division. New Prague and Eden Valley-Watkins are in the White Division. To see the schedule check out the Breakdown site.

CALENDAR

next up: later today with more photos from the Dakota Showcase.