Four classes of qualifiers are set for the boys basketball state tournaments

The brackets and seeds will be revealed Saturday, and the quarterfinals will begin Wednesday.

The Minnesota Star Tribune
March 16, 2024 at 3:23AM
Coach James Ware and his Park Center boys basketball team will learn their seed for the Class 4A state tournament Saturday. (Elizabeth Flores)

Friday games filled the final two berths in Class 4A and the last one in Class 3A for next week’s boys basketball state tournaments.

In Class 4A, top seed Rogers defeated second seed St. Michael-Albertville 54-50 for Section 8′s spot in Class 4A, and second seed Farmington defeated top seed Lakeville North 70-59 in the Section 1 final. In Class 3A, top seed Stewartville defeated second seed Byron 66-56 for the Section 1 berth.

The brackets for the four tournaments will be revealed Saturday, and quarterfinals will begin Wednesday.

Lakeville North’s loss Friday wasn’t the first by a top section seed in Class 4A. Second seed Coon Rapids defeated No. 1 Forest Lake 65-62 on Thursday in Section 7. Top seeds Minnetonka (Section 2), Eagan (Section 3), Cretin-Derham Hall (Section 4), Park Center (Section 5), Wayzata (Section 6) and Rogers (Section 8) qualified for state.

Six top seeds qualified in Class 3A: Stewartville (Section 1), Mankato East (Section 2), Minneapolis South (Section 3), DeLaSalle (Section 4), Totino-Grace (Section 5) and Alexandria (Section 8). Second seed Chisago Lakes ousted first seed Hermantown in Section 7, and third seed Orono toppled Benilde-St. Margaret’s in Section 6.

State qualifiers

Class 4A

Section 1: Farmington (23-6)

Section 2: Minnetonka (22-6)

Section 3: Eagan (17-12)

Section 4: Cretin-Derham Hall (24-4)

Section 5: Park Center (25-3)

Section 6: Wayzata (27-1)

Section 7: Coon Rapids (16-13)

Section 8: Rogers (21-8)

Class 3A

Section 1: Stewartville (26-3)

Section 2: Mankato East (26-2)

Section 3: Minneapolis South (21-5)

Section 4: DeLaSalle (20-9)

Section 5: Totino-Grace (24-5)

Section 6: Orono (19-10)

Section 7: Chisago Lakes (22-7)

Section 8: Alexandria (24-5)

Class 2A

Section 1: Lake City (24-5)

Section 2: Waseca (20-10)

Section 3: Jackson County Central (21-7)

Section 4: Minnehaha Academy (14-14)

Section 5: Breck (28-1)

Section 6: Albany (28-2)

Section 7: Pequot Lakes (26-4)

Section 8: Pelican Rapids (24-5)

Class 1A

Section 1: Goodhue (18-13)

Section 2: Mountain Lake-Comfrey (27-3)

Section 3: Russell-Tyler-Ruthton (23-7)

Section 4: Heritage Christian (21-7)

Section 5: Nevis (23-7)

Section 6: West Central (27-3)

Section 7: Cherry (28-2)

Section 8: Fertile-Beltrami (25-6)

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Kevin Bertels has led the Minnesota Star Tribune’s high school sports coverage since fall 2021. Before that, he spent 23 years as the newspaper’s night Sports section coordinator, placing him in charge of the Sports copy desk.

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