North Tartan 9th finishes up at 40-3 and #2 nationally
According to the North Tartan Web site, their 9th grade team finished with a record of 40-3. The losses were to the Boo Williams club 64-61 on Boo’s home court in April, and then to 2019s Fury Blue and Crossfire…
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Continue ReadingAccording to the North Tartan Web site, their 9th grade team finished with a record of 40-3. The losses were to the Boo Williams club 64-61 on Boo’s home court in April, and then to 2019s Fury Blue and Crossfire Theisen. Oddly enough, these teams traveled all the way to Chicago (Fury) and Ames (Crossfire) to play one another. The Fury won 52-50 at the Nike Nationals, the Crossfire won 38-36 at the Battle of the Best.
Along the way Tartan 9 swept 7 games and the AAU championship, beating Fury 2020 Blue 53-50 and 47-45 in 2 great games. Guard Paige Bueckers led Tartan in every way including scoring with 16 ppg in the prelim and 15 ppg in the tournament. In fact, the Fury had the 2nd game won when Tartan scored an improbable bucket to force OT.
But, then, Tartan defeated the Fury more easily 47-35 at the Summer Jam. Meanwhile, they avenged their loss to Fury 2019 Blue in Ames 43-39 the day before the surprising loss to the Crossfire.
All in all, it added up to a 40-3 record and a #2 ranking nationally. And, guard Paige Bueckers spent a week or ten days midway through with the U.S. national team, playing plenty of minutes and earning a gold medal in Argentina.
Before continuing, I will repeat my caveat. Compiling W-L records is a pretty tedious and relatively hopeless task, and I am absolutely certain that we’ve missed some games. When teams publish their W-L records, or even just their schedules, then we’ll get ‘em right. But, for now, we have to work backwards from the tournament Web sites and I know there are some tournaments out there that we never heard about and didn’t scan.
2. Fury 2020 Blue took 2nd in the AAU, almost knocked off Tartan 9th and compiled a record of 21-6 since the AAU. Point guard Ravyn Miles, wing Alyssa Ustby and point guard Molly Mogenson had very productive summers.
3. Stars 9th Antl moves up from #5 with a 20-3 record since the AAU. Emily Russo and Aaliyah Ragulen had nice summers for the Stars. After the “big 3,” with a total record since the AAU of 50-and-8, no other 2020 team won more than 7 games.
4. E1T1 Premier took 3rd at the AAU and went 7-6 since then.
5. North Tartan 9th West finished 5th in the AAU and went 7-0 in June, but slipped to 6-8 in July. Kendall Cox and Lydia Haack led the way.
6. Stars McAlpine went 13-4 since the AAU and jumps from 10th to 6th in our final ranking.
7. Heat Hinck is 9-8 since the AAU. Cianna Selbitschka leads the way.
8. Crossfire 9th Jorgenson is 8-4 since the AAU. Guards Alaina Brenning and Abby Schulte had great summers.
9. Fury 2020 Gold was 10th at the AAU, and went 9-7 since with good wins over Rise 10th and Comets Elite.
10. So Minn Fury Blue was 7th at the AAU and 7-8 since then with a loss to Stars McAlpine.
11. Comets 9th Elite took 9th at the AAU and went 12-10 since with wins over CF Jorgenson, NT 8 Coley and Force Wilson, and a loss to Fury Gold.
12. Force Wilson won the D2 title, then went 6-6 with losses to Stars McAlpine, Suns Long/Michaud and Comes Elite.
13. MN Energy finished 5th in D2 and played just one tournament thereafter, going 4-1.
14. United took 2nd in D2 then hung up their sneakers.
15. Heat 9th Dineen was 9th in D2 then 3-1 in its only remaining action.
16. Suns 9th Long/Michaud went 7-5 in June. Previously it skipped the AAU and then it went 1-8 in July.
17. Stars 9th Zabel was 3rd in D2 and then 11-9 with bad losses to Stars Cosgriff and Heat Dineen.
18. Comets 9th Select finished 12th in the AAU, then went 3-5 with losses to Stars Vogelsberg and Force Wilson.
19. So Minn Fury Gold finished 7th in D2, then went 6-12 including 2-8 in July with losses to Suns Long/Michaud, Crossfire Herman and Energy.
20. Crossfire St. John finished 13th in the AAU, then went 2-5 in June.