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Meet Minnesota’s rising recruits in boys basketball
By Marcus Fuller and Ryan James, the Minnesota Star Tribune 05/08/2025, 4:30pm CDT
Here are 10 Minnesota boys basketball players on the rise in the spring AAU season.
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Super team of Minnesota’s best boys basketball talent looks to beat a nationally assembled AAU powerhouse
By Marcus Fuller, the Minnesota Star Tribune 05/08/2025, 1:45pm CDT
Three Minnesota teams will play against RWE during pool play of this weekend’s Battle at the Lakes tournament.
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Dave Galovich, Crosby-Ironton boys basketball coach for nearly 50 years, retires: ‘Now is the right time’
By Ron Haggstrom, the Minnesota Star Tribune 05/07/2025, 10:00am CDT
Dave Galovich, after 47 seasons coaching the Rangers, is No. 4 in victories by a boys basketball coach in Minnesota history.
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Massive boys basketball tournament brings top recruits, social media stars to Twin Cities
By Ryan James Prep Network, Special to the Star Tribune 05/06/2025, 1:30pm CDT
Battle at the Lakes draws more than 500 teams, some of them loaded with top recruits, to Eden Prairie, Wayzata and other high schools this weekend.
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Iowa women’s basketball is first program to offer scholarship to Hill-Murray seventh-grader Ashlee Wilson
By Cassidy Hettesheimer, the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/29/2025, 8:45pm CDT
Wilson plays on former Iowa star Caitlin Clark’s former AAU team, All-Iowa Attack.
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Alexandria’s Wendy Kohler, second winningest girls basketball coach in state history, retires
By Ron Haggstrom, the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/24/2025, 12:45pm CDT
Kohler led the Alexandria Cardinals to all 14 of their state tournament appearances, winning their lone championship in Class 3A in 1997.
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Longtime Mounds View boys basketball coach Ziggy Kauls dead at 84
By Joel Rippel, the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/22/2025, 10:15am CDT
Kauls coached the Mustangs for 45 years, winning two state championships.
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Joe Madson steps down from coaching boys basketball at Mankato East
By Ron Haggstrom, the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/21/2025, 12:15pm CDT
Madson led the Mankato East basketball program for 24 seasons. He is also the school’s softball coach.
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Orono standout Nolan Groves will play college basketball at Texas Tech
By Marcus Fuller, the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/19/2025, 10:00pm CDT
The state’s leading scorer at 34.2 points per game this season backed out of his previous commitment to Yale and had an offer from the Gophers.
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Christian Wiggins, Minnesota’s top Class of 2026 boys basketball recruit, commits to Iowa State
By Cassidy Hettesheimer, the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/19/2025, 6:15pm CDT
The Wayzata guard had scholarship offers from various Big 12 and Big Ten teams, including one from new Gophers coach Niko Medved.
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Recent state champs in football, boys hockey will become section foes next year
By Cassidy Hettesheimer, the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/11/2025, 2:30pm CDT
In football, Maple Grove, Minnetonka and Moorhead will compete in 6A Section 6. For boys hockey, Rogers will join the same section as 12-time state champion Edina.
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Lakeville North boys basketball coach John Oxton announces retirement
By Joel Rippel, the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/11/2025, 9:30am CDT
John Oxton amassed 706 career victories in 33 seasons in Lakeville.
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Orono senior forward Brady Wooley commits to Yale for college basketball
By Nick Williams, the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/07/2025, 8:45pm CDT
Brady Wooley, a three-star recruit, plans to attend Yale starting in 2026.
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Hopkins basketball standout Anthony Smith III commits to North Dakota
By Marcus Fuller, the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/07/2025, 7:15pm CDT
Anthony Smith III, a Hopkins senior guard, announced his commitment Monday to play for North Dakota next season.
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Niko Medved’s first in-state Gophers basketball scholarship offer goes to Wayzata’s Christian Wiggins
By Marcus Fuller, the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/07/2025, 7:00pm CDT
Wayzata junior star Christian Wiggins hadn’t received an offer under the Gophers’ previous coaching regime.
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Dave Galovich, Crosby-Ironton boys basketball coach for nearly 50 years, retires: ‘Now is the right time’
By Ron Haggstrom, the Minnesota Star Tribune 05/07/2025, 10:00am CDT
Dave Galovich, after 47 seasons coaching the Rangers, is No. 4 in victories by a boys basketball coach in Minnesota history.
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Massive boys basketball tournament brings top recruits, social media stars to Twin Cities
By Ryan James Prep Network, Special to the Star Tribune 05/06/2025, 1:30pm CDT
Battle at the Lakes draws more than 500 teams, some of them loaded with top recruits, to Eden Prairie, Wayzata and other high schools this weekend.
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Super team of Minnesota’s best boys basketball talent looks to beat a nationally assembled AAU powerhouse
By Marcus Fuller, the Minnesota Star Tribune 05/08/2025, 1:45pm CDT
Three Minnesota teams will play against RWE during pool play of this weekend’s Battle at the Lakes tournament.
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Star Tribune All-Minnesota Sports Awards coming June 24 to Vikings headquarters
By Chris Carr, the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/29/2025, 9:00pm CDT
Winners of 10 special high school sports honors will be celebrated at our year-end AMSA event.
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Meet the 2025 Star Tribune All-Minnesota high school boys basketball team
By Ron Haggstrom, the Minnesota Star Tribune 03/18/2025, 9:15am CDT
The team runs 25 players deep, chosen from a search area that spans the entire state.
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