Tuesday Grab Bag: Keefe; Tip Off; Defense; Lynx

#8 posting 12.11.2007
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TUESDAY AFTERNOON GRAB BAG
KEEFE LEAVES
Northern Iowa senior Megan Keefe (Clear Lake, IA) has left the team for personal reasons. She started 7 games this season and 30 games last year.

TIP OFF IN FEBRUARY
The Fergus Falls Breakdown Tip Off is now rescheduled with the four remaining games being split up.
Both games will be on February 9th now
At Fergus Falls at 4:30 pm it will be #1AA Crookston vs. #6AAAA Park of Cottage Grove8 at 8:00 PM: #1 AAA Becker faces host Fergus Falls. At 6:15 pm the Becker JV and Fergus JV will play.
At Rogers at 4:15 there will be JV Games followed by 6:00 PM: Moorhead vs. #1 AAAA Centennial at 7:45 PM #7AAAA Lakeville North takes on the hosts #3AAA Rogers.

MINNESOTA REPORTS:
KINGSLAND QUEENS OF THE COURT
Kingsland is now 7-0 after beating Winona Cotter 47-45 on Saturday. Wayne Hebrink is now at the helm for Kingsland. From the Rochester Post Bulletin.

Chisholm beat International Falls 61-46. From the IF Daily Journal (go beyond the boys report).

Bigfork rolled to a 78-37 win over Orr.

COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Riverland beat Gustavus JV Monday 66-57. Anna Hebrink (Austin) had 21 for Riverland. From the Rochester Post Bulletin.

DEFENSE & TRUEHOOP
True Hoop examines the defense in the NBA and looks at Boston in particular. In the article Henry Abbott mentions the pp100 index for the true measure of how a team is performing on defense, not the points per game index.
If we look at the best pp100 on defense this year the best defense goes to Kimball with a 33.3 vs Swanville. However I would argue that it really isn't the Kimball defense being a brick wall, but Swanville casting up bricks instead. Offensive ineptitude clearly is a factor in the lower scores in high school.
The second best number belonged to Ada-Borup and I will agree that they played strong defense. They didn't allow too many second chances (a fault I see quite often). ABs number checks in a 52.56.
The samples this year are still pretty small to give a definitive thumbs up or down on defense. However last year the top of the line defense went to St. Paul Central who gave up 70.08 pp100 and we are talking against the likes of Cretin-Derham Hall, Mpls South, and Edina. Clearly this is where Central won and overwhelmed opponents last year.
Those on track for a 70 pp100 defensive rating this year include--Mpls South, Lakeville North in AAAA besides Ada-Borup in A. Keep paying attention to that pp100 on defense. The gold standard is 100 pp100 on offense, 70 on defense (If you want to be considered for the state champion)

TEAMS OF THE WEEK---LYNX STYLE
Now the Minnesota Lynx are getting into naming teams of the week. Every Tuesday for the rest of the year they will be naming one in each class. This weeks winners:
A: Wrenshall; AA: MN Valley Lutheran; AAA: Totino-Grace; AAAA: St. Paul Central

NORTH DAKOTA REPORTS
Bottineau stays on top in the ND B Poll. From the Jamestown Sun.

Dickinson Trinity beat Hebron-Glen Ullin 66-60. From the Dickinson Press.

SOUTH DAKOTA REPORTS
Hanson edged Parkston 50-49 plus other area results in the Mitchell Republic.

MICHIGAN REPORTS
Hanover-Horton beat Leslie 56-48. from the Jackson Citizen Patriot.

Kalkaska beat Traverse City Central 59-51. plus more results From the Traverse City Record Eagle.

BY THE WAY
I have added the milestone listing link on the right for the 2007-08 year. If I am missing something, which I sure I am, go to my profile and email me.

thanks to the readers for the help.

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