North Dakota Preps

Who are your teams in each region?

R1 - Kindred
R2 - Grafton or Midway-Minto
R3 - Kidder County or Carrington
R4 - Langdon-Edmore-Munich
R5 - Flasher, Grant County, Shiloh Christian, Underwood
R6 - Rugby, or Mohall-Lansford-Sherwood
R7 - Heart River or Beach
R8 - Trenton

Just curious why you don't have Thompson in the mix for Region 2? Midway-Minto has a good team, but who have they played so far this year to be getting so much credit?

ballernd wrote:Just curious why you don't have Thompson in the mix for Region 2? Midway-Minto has a good team, but who have they played so far this year to be getting so much credit?

It should be Grafton & Thompson with M-M being the 'sleeper' team...IMO

My bad I forgot to include Thompson.

R1 - Kindred
R2 - Grafton
R3 - Carrington
R4 - Langdon-Edmore-Munich
R5 - Grant County?
R6 - Rugby
R7 - Beach
R8 - Trenton

Kindred, Langdon-Edmore-Munich and Trenton are the only picks I'm confident in at this moment. The other regions, especially 5 seem to have a lot of parity this year.

Thundersnow wrote:R1 - Kindred
R2 - Grafton
R3 - Carrington
R4 - Langdon-Edmore-Munich
R5 - Grant County?
R6 - Rugby
R7 - Beach
R8 - Trenton

Kindred, Langdon-Edmore-Munich and Trenton are the only picks I'm confident in at this moment. The other regions, especially 5 seem to have a lot of parity this year.

I think Grafton is a bigger favorite than Kindred or LEM. I know Trenton is really good, I just don't know about any other teams in that region.

Flip wrote:

Thundersnow wrote:R1 - Kindred
R2 - Grafton
R3 - Carrington
R4 - Langdon-Edmore-Munich
R5 - Grant County?
R6 - Rugby
R7 - Beach
R8 - Trenton

Kindred, Langdon-Edmore-Munich and Trenton are the only picks I'm confident in at this moment. The other regions, especially 5 seem to have a lot of parity this year.

I think Grafton is a bigger favorite than Kindred or LEM. I know Trenton is really good, I just don't know about any other teams in that region.

Grafton lost to Kindred and tonight they lost to Langdon in a close game. Kindred is going to roll to another State B Championship unless lighting strikes and a team shoots the lights out. Hard to create a lighting storm over 6' guards.

Langdon matches up well with Kindred - that's my state championship game

GOPACKGO!!! wrote:

Flip wrote:

Thundersnow wrote:R1 - Kindred
R2 - Grafton
R3 - Carrington
R4 - Langdon-Edmore-Munich
R5 - Grant County?
R6 - Rugby
R7 - Beach
R8 - Trenton

Kindred, Langdon-Edmore-Munich and Trenton are the only picks I'm confident in at this moment. The other regions, especially 5 seem to have a lot of parity this year.

I think Grafton is a bigger favorite than Kindred or LEM. I know Trenton is really good, I just don't know about any other teams in that region.

Grafton lost to Kindred and tonight they lost to Langdon in a close game. Kindred is going to roll to another State B Championship unless lighting strikes and a team shoots the lights out. Hard to create a lighting storm over 6' guards.

I'm not saying Grafton is better than Kindred or LEM. What I'm saying is they are more likely to win their region than Kindred or LEM.

I agree Kindred vs Langdon/Edmore/Munich if they meet in the state should be very good match up. Langdon has the size to match up with Kindred I believe and overall they are both equally quick as teams. Don't look at LEM height descriptions because I believe their height is understated a bit across the board but they do start 4 girls above 5-10 and they are deeper team than were last year at state. Also they have played very competitive schedule this year against the following Carrington, Thompson, Grafton, Hettinger-Scranton, Fourwinds, Kidder County, Shiloh, and Velva. Also there is always seems like team that peaks in the state tournament so you never know who might win the state.

Run4Fun2009 wrote:Langdon matches up well with Kindred - that's my state championship game

I agree! They both have played some challenging schedules this year and it's the match up people want to see.

Personally, I'm hoping for a Kindred vs. Trenton championship.

2 potentially undefeated teams
East (R1) vs. West (R8) matchup
Large school vs. small school - according to the Miss Hoopster, Kindred's enrollment is 315 and Trenton's is 89
And it would feature 2 exciting, talented players in Abby Duchscherer and Kaity Hove

Nothing against any of the other teams, I just think this would be a fun championship matchup. It probably won't happen though as Trenton will have a hard time moving above the #4 seed.

I got 211 for Kindred 9-12.

Trenton has experience, they returned everyone from a team that went to state last year, but I think it would be an upset if they beat Kindred, Langdon, or Grafton.

Flip wrote:I got 211 for Kindred 9-12.

Trenton has experience, they returned everyone from a team that went to state last year, but I think it would be an upset if they beat Kindred, Langdon, or Grafton.

Kindred is roughly 220 (9-12)...300+ (7-12).

Grafton is larger than Kindred by enrollment numbers.

Thank you for the correction regarding Kindred's enrollment number. I thought that number seemed high as I hadn't heard anything about them moving up to Class A. I love the Hoopster publications, but I know they aren't inerrant.

Run4Fun2009 wrote:
Kindred is roughly 220 (9-12)...300+ (7-12).

Grafton is larger than Kindred by enrollment numbers.

https://www.nd.gov/dpi/data

that's what I always use. There is a file you can download and it has all the public schools and there enrollment by class.

I don't get all worked up about numbers of kids in school because you only play with 5 on the floor.
But Kindred will be there for a few more years. Their core group of kids are Freshmen and Sophomores.

Flip wrote:

Run4Fun2009 wrote:
Kindred is roughly 220 (9-12)...300+ (7-12).

Grafton is larger than Kindred by enrollment numbers.

https://www.nd.gov/dpi/data

that's what I always use. There is a file you can download and it has all the public schools and there enrollment by class.

Especially in girls athletics, it's not unusual for 7th graders to be active participants in varsity sports.