2015-16 State Tournament

[Run4Fun2009]

STATE TOURNAMENT
@ Minot State Dome
March 17th, 18th & 19th

Thursday, March 17th
G1: #2 Shiloh Christian def. Grafton 45-36
G2: #3 Our Redeemer's def. Strasburg/Zeeland 61-58
G3: #1 Four Winds-Minnewaukan def. Northern Cass 62-58
G4: #4 Dickinson Trinity def. Kenmare 61-42

Friday, March 18th
G5: Grafton def. Strasburg/Zeeland 53-51
G6: Northern Cass def. Kenmare 83-72
G7: #3 Our Redeemer's def. #2 Shiloh Christian 50-48
G8: #1 Four Winds-Minnewaukan def. #4 Dickinson Trinity 60-46

Saturday, March 19th
7th Place: Strasburg/Zeeland def. Kenmare 64-58
5th Place: Northern Cass def. Grafton 64-61 OT
3rd Place: #4 Dickinson Trinity def. #2 Shiloh Christian 56-55
Championship: #1 Four Winds-Minnewaukan def. #3 Our Redeemer's 77-65

CHAMPS: Four Winds-Minnewaukan (26-1)
Runner Up: Our Redeemer's (26-2)
3rd: Dickinson Trinity (22-5)
4th: Shiloh Christian (23-4)
Consolation Champs: Northern Cass (20-6)
6th: Grafton (18-10)
7th: Strasburg/Zeeland (21-6)
8th: Kenmare (21-6)

Senior Athlete of the Year: Brody Nieuwsma, Strasburg/Zeeland
Coach of the Year: Rick Smith, Four Winds-Minnewaukan

All-Tournament Team
Four Winds-Minnewaukan: Tronis McKay, Jason Feather, Koltin ThreeIrons, Steve Redfox
Our Redeemer's: John Reiten, Josh VanLith
Shiloh Christian: Zac Martin
Dickinson Trinity: Shawn Stoltz
Northern Cass: Cody Springer
Grafton: Landon Droog
Strasburg/Zeeland: Brody Nieuwsma

Tournament MVP: Jason Feather, Four Winds-Minnewaukan

MR. BASKETBALL: Jason Feather, Four Winds-Minnewaukan

[thefourwinds]

Who chooses the #1-#4 seeds? Is it the same group who does the polls during the season?

My thoughts on the seeding:

FW/M is the clear choice for #1 seed.

Both Shiloh and ORCS can make good cases for the #2 seed. I was surprised when Shiloh was bumped out of the #2 ranking late in the regular season just for losing a close game to FW/M, especially since they had a head-to-head win over ORCS. But ORCS has perhaps played better tournament competition recently (namely, Bishop Ryan twice) than Shiloh has. The #2/#3 is a real toss-up between these two, and I don't know who chooses or how they choose.

For the #4 seed, again, both Dickinson Trinity and Strasburg-Zeeland can make a good case for this. No idea how this one will shake out.

I think there are at least five (if not more) high-quality teams that have a legitimate shot at winning it all this year. And I only say at least five because I really don't know anything about some of the teams. Should be an awesome tournament.

[nolan4]

Who chooses the #1-#4 seeds? Is it the same group who does the polls during the season?

State tournament coaches choose.

[Run4Fun2009]

Who chooses the #1-#4 seeds? Is it the same group who does the polls during the season?

State Tournament Coaches vote (7 team vote..can't vote for own team). It will be announced at 3pm today between the Class A GBB Semifinals on WDAY (statewide affiliates)

[nolan4]

I will make a prediction..... .if Four Winds and Kenmare play , Four Winds will score 100 pts.

[thefourwinds]

I will make a prediction..... .if Four Winds and Kenmare play , Four Winds will score 100 pts.

I would have to agree. Having seen Kenmare this year, I would have to think having them beat Shiloh and ORCS just to get to the Championship would be one of the most unlikely set of upsets ever.

[nolan4]

I will make a prediction..... .if Four Winds and Kenmare play , Four Winds will score 100 pts.

I would have to agree. Having seen Kenmare this year, I would have to think having them beat Shiloh and ORCS just to get to the Championship would be one of the most unlikely set of upsets ever.

Don't get me wrong, Kenmare is fun to watch, but they like to get up and down the court, but if they tried against Four Winds they be playing right into Four Winds hands IMO.

[thefourwinds]

Who chooses the #1-#4 seeds? Is it the same group who does the polls during the season?

State Tournament Coaches vote (7 team vote..can't vote for own team). It will be announced at 3pm today between the Class A GBB Semifinals on WDAY (statewide affiliates)

Thanks for the info. That does seem to be a bit of an odd system to have the participating coaches vote, since how they vote influences who they will play.

[HighPlainsDrifter]

Who chooses the #1-#4 seeds? Is it the same group who does the polls during the season?

State Tournament Coaches vote (7 team vote..can't vote for own team). It will be announced at 3pm today between the Class A GBB Semifinals on WDAY (statewide affiliates)

Thanks for the info. That does seem to be a bit of an odd system to have the participating coaches vote, since how they vote influences who they will play.

It doesn't quite work that way. The FW/M coach can't say, "Oh, I'll vote for Kenmare as the last seed so I can play them first." The bottom 4 vote getters are put into a draw. That's how North Star ended up playing FCT in the first round of the girl's tournament. It's not a perfect system, but I think it's better than sportswriters or some other group being involved.

[thefourwinds]

Who chooses the #1-#4 seeds? Is it the same group who does the polls during the season?

State Tournament Coaches vote (7 team vote..can't vote for own team). It will be announced at 3pm today between the Class A GBB Semifinals on WDAY (statewide affiliates)

Thanks for the info. That does seem to be a bit of an odd system to have the participating coaches vote, since how they vote influences who they will play.

It doesn't quite work that way. The FW/M coach can't say, "Oh, I'll vote for Kenmare as the last seed so I can play them first." The bottom 4 vote getters are put into a draw. That's how North Star ended up playing FCT in the first round of the girl's tournament. It's not a perfect system, but I think it's better than sportswriters or some other group being involved.

Thanks for your input. I'm curious to see how this will all turn out!

[thefourwinds]

Looks like it will be

#1 FW/M vs. Northern Cass
#2 Shiloh vs. Grafton
#3 ORCS vs. Strasburg/Zeeland
#4 Dickinson Trinity vs. Kenmare

[Sorenson23]

My Prediction

Shiloh Christian 55 Grafton 42
Our Redeemer's 60 Strasburg-Zeeland 50
Four Winds-Minnewaukan 72 Northern Cass 48
Dickinson Trinity 53 Kenmare 57

Consolation semifinals

Grafton 45 Strasburg-Zeeland 54
Northern Cass 42 Dickinson Trinity 47

Semi-Finals

Shiloh Christian 54 Our Redeemer's 48
Four Winds-Minnewaukan 62 Kenmare 38

7th Place

Northern Cass 48 Grafton 44

5th Place

Dickinson Trinity 42 Strasburg-Zeeland 43

3rd Place

Our Redeemer's 46 Kenmare 50

State B Championship

Four Winds-Minnewaukan 65 Shiloh Christian 60


Four Winds-Minnewaukan Indians
2016 State B Champions

I'm a fan of Region 5 and District 10 I would pick the team that represents us put since the Shiloh girls won the title. I don't want to see their boys do it. I know they have a good ball club. But that would be a catastrophe seeing Shiloh girls & boys with the state title in the same sport in the same year. I think Four Winds wins it all they've been close a couple of times. I think they'll get it done. I know that their isn't really that dominant team this year. Should be a great tournament but theirs no better place to have it a state b tournament then the Minot State Dome.

[Sniper]

My Prediction:

Thursday, March 17th
G1: #2 Bismarck (22-2) vs. Grafton (17-8)
G2: #3 Minot (24-1) vs. Strasburg/Zeeland (20-4)
G3: #1 Four Winds-Minnewaukan (23-1) vs. Northern Cass (18-5)
G4: #4 Dickinson (20-4) vs. Kenmare (21-3)

Friday, March 18th
G5: Minot vs. Grafton
G6: Kenmare vs. Northern Cass
G7: Bismarck vs. Strasburg/Zeeland
G8: Four Winds-Minnewaukan vs. Dickinson

Saturday, March 19th
7th Place: Grafton vs. Kenmare
5th Place: Minot vs. Northern Cass
3rd Place: Strasburg/Zeeland vs. Dickinson
Championship: Four Winds-Minnewaukan vs. Bismarck

[cmplx6]

Thursday, March 17th
G1: #2 Shiloh Christian (22-2) vs. Grafton (17-8)
G2: #3 Our Redeemer's (24-1) vs. Strasburg/Zeeland (20-4)
G3: #1 Four Winds-Minnewaukan (23-1) vs. Northern Cass (18-5)
G4: #4 Dickinson Trinity (20-4) vs. Kenmare (21-3)

Friday, March 18th
G5: Strasburg vs. Grafton
G6: Trinity vs. Northern Cass
G7: Shiloh vs. Our Redeemer's
G8: Four Winds vs. Kenmare

Saturday, March 19th
7th Place: Grafton vs. Trinity
5th Place: Strasburg vs. Northern Cass
3rd Place: Our Redeemer's vs. Four Winds
Championship: Kenmare vs. Shiloh

[canoworms]

Could Grafton be a sleeper here?
They beaten 21-3 H/CV
18-6 Thompson
20-4 Larimore
I'm out out on a limb and its pretty shaky but if the wind doesn't blow to hard they will make it.

[ninja_joe]

Thursday, March 17th
G1: #2 Shiloh Christian (22-2) vs. Grafton (17-8) Shiloh wins this one easily. 61-45
G2: #3 Our Redeemer's (24-1) vs. Strasburg/Zeeland (20-4) Best game of first round. Strasburg pulls upset. 68-65
G3: #1 Four Winds-Minnewaukan (23-1) vs. Northern Cass (18-5) 4 Winds. Easily. 80-52
G4: #4 Dickinson Trinity (20-4) vs. Kenmare (21-3) Might be competitive but Trinity wins. 55-49

Friday, March 18th
G5: Grafton vs. Our Redeemers Our Redeemers wins going away.
G6: Northern Cass vs. Kenmare Kenmare's only shot at winning a game. Kenmare in a close one.
G7: Shiloh vs. Strasburg Strasburg gets hot. Going to title game.
G8: Four Winds vs. Dickinson Trinity Four Winds in a close game.

Saturday, March 19th
7th Place: Grafton vs. Northern Cass - No idea. Overtime. Grafton wins.
5th Place: Kenmare vs. Our Redeemers - Our Redeemers dominates.
3rd Place: Shiloh vs. Trinity - Shiloh
Championship: Four Winds vs. Strasburg - Four Winds struggles in the big one. But not this year. Finally win.

[Jack8]

Day1
SC 76 Grafton 52
OR 80 SZ 72
FWM 91 NC 65
DT 71 Kenmare 55
Day 2
SZ 67 Grafton 62
NC 69 Kenmare 60
SC 67 OR 64
FWM 76 DT 65
Day 3
Grafton 66 Kenmare 64
NC 67 SZ 60
OR 70 DT 62
FWM 83 SC 77

[B-oldtimer]

State tournament this year I have less interest in past years and I think I am loosing more interest each year. I look at this years tournament I see three Parochial schools in state tournament and think there are only about half dozen parochial schools and half of them made it and pair played each other to get to the state tournament and one other lost out in championship this must tell somebody something. Next we have Grafton one of the largest class b schools in the state and it played Hillsboro/centeral Valley the next largest school in that region what does that tell you. Northern Cass one of three schools surrounding Fargo it did have to beat Oak Grove but that region for most part has been dominated by this group of four for the most part. Then we get to region 3 one of true balanced regions in class b even though they did get Carrington thrown into the mix last year. Region 4 is made up Fourwinds a powerhouse and now Dunseith that looks to contend with Fourwinds in the future and Northstar looks to have at least one year left of this fominal run of good athletes for smaller school. Region 8 is unpredictable and always sends different candidate each year class b tradition. I then look at class b and I see for the most part see regions that are being dominated by three or four teams over last few years and if anything strongest teams are getting better and poorer teams are getting weaker. I look at region 4 which I am familiar with I see no change coming in near future in balance of power. District 7 Fourwinds will be favorite next year followed by New Rockford, Harvey/Wells county, and fight for fourth between Dakota Prairie and Benson county. In District 8 Northstar will be favorite followed closely by Dunseith and then will proably St. John and Rolla again next year. I guess for me i sure liked it when teams were more balance and you didn't know who might come for the following year but in class b this has not been case for some time start looking at some of the schools how long it has been since they made regional appearance let alone get into final two nights. I am betting there are number of schools its 10 years or soon approaching 10 years and even longer since they made second night of the region tournament. The one thing I can say though is Region tournament was never better attended this year in Devils Lake but both Fourwinds and Dunseith brought huge crowds so things seem to be going well. I just see another round of Coops coming and even less participation than we have now because of this terrible inbalance we have in class b they did do something about it in football but haven't come to realization that something has to be done in basketball.

[ND-is-#1]

My predictions:
Day 1
Shiloh vs Grafton
Our Redeemers vs S/Z
FWM vs Northern Cass
Dickinson Trinity vs Kenmare

Day 2
S/Z vs Grafton
Northern Cass vs Kenmare
Semis Our Redeemers vs Shiloh
Semis FWM vs Dickinson Trinity

Day 3
7th place Grafton vs Kenmare
5th place Northern Cass vs S/Z
3rd place Shiloh vs Trinity
Championship Our Redeemers vs FWM

[Kwoods]

Shiloh over Grafton
S/Z over OR
FWN over Northern Cass
Dickinson Trinity over Kenmare

Day 2
OR over Grafton
Kenmare over Northern Cass
S/Z over Shiloh
FWM over Trinity

7th Grafton over Northern Cass
5th OR over Kenmare
3rd Shiloh over Trinity
1st FWM over S/Z

[Run4Fun2009]

Thursday, March 17th
#2 Shiloh Christian def. Grafton 55-36
#3 Our Redeemer's def. Strasburg/Zeeland 63-56
#1 Four Winds-Minnewaukan def. Northern Cass 72-68
#4 Dickinson Trinity def. Kenmare 68-62

Friday, March 18th
Strasburg/Zeeland def. Grafton 63-54
Northern Cass def. Kenmare 75-71
#2 Shiloh Christian def. #3 Our Redeemer's 55-52
#1 Four Winds-Minnewaukan def. #4 Dickinson Trinity 66-54

Saturday, March 19th
7th: Kenmare def. Grafton 70-50
5th: Northern Cass def. Strasburg/Zeeland 75-71
3rd: #3 Our Redeemer's def. #4 Dickinson Trinity 58-55
1st: #1 Four Winds-Minnewaukan def. #2 Shiloh Christian 66-58

[UNDSiouxfan]

Thursday, March 17th
#2 Bismarck Shiloh Christian def. Grafton 62-49
#3 Minot Our Redeemer's def. Strasburg/Zeeland 63-62
#1 Four Winds-Minnewaukan def. Northern Cass 73-70
#4 Dickinson Trinity def. Kenmare 64-53

Friday, March 18th
Strasburg/Zeeland def. Grafton 60-59
Northern Cass def. Kenmare 77-61
#2 Bismarck Shiloh Christian def. #3 Minot Our Redeemer's 59-58
#1 Four Winds-Minnewaukan def. #4 Dickinson Trinity 73-65

Saturday, March 19th
7th: Grafton def. Kenmare 63-51
5th: Northern Cass def. Strasburg/Zeeland 75-74
3rd: #3 Dickinson Trinity def. #4 Minot Our Redeemer's 54-53
1st: #1 Four Winds-Minnewaukan def. #2 Bismarck Shiloh Christian 67-61

Couple thoughts...
Northern Cass will not get blown out by Four Winds as many of you have predicted. They can handle a press and they have great guard play. IMO this could be Four Winds' toughest game of the tournament but we shall see.
Rooting for the small schools this year -- Go Kenmare, Strasburg/Zeeland, & Northern Cass!

[The Schwab]

1st- Shiloh
2nd- FWM
3rd- Trinity
4th- OR
5th- SZ
6th- Kenmare
7th- NC
8th- Grafton

[ndlionsfan]

1st- FWM finally gets their championship
2nd- Shiloh
3rd- SZ
4th- Trinity
5th- NC
6th- ORCS
7th- Kenmare
8th- Grafton

Picking a few upsets

[thefourwinds]

Some generic observations and predictions:

- I think there is a clear tier 1 and tier 2 this year. The #1-4 seeds are there for a reason. Therefore, I don't think there will be any upsets on the first day this year.

- I think if FW/M has shown any vulnerability, it has been to teams that have size and are willing and able to play defense. The #2-#4 seeds all have size and play tough defense (Shiloh, ORCS, and DT are actually all pretty similar teams). Therefore, I think any of the top 4 seeds has a strong chance of winning it all this year.