Season Predictions vs Season Results – Part 2
How well do my preseason predictions hold up? Let’s find out! Class AAAA Section 1 Result – Owatonna over Lakeville South Section 1 Preseason Prediction – Lakeville South over Owatonna Section 2 Result – Chaska over Shakopee Section 2 Preseason Prediction – Chaska over Edina Section 3…
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Class AAAA
Section 1 Result – Owatonna over Lakeville South
Section 1 Preseason Prediction – Lakeville South over Owatonna
Section 2 Result – Chaska over Shakopee
Section 2 Preseason Prediction – Chaska over Edina
Section 3 Result – Rosemount over Park of CG
Section 3 Preseason Prediction – Lakeville North over Eastview
Section 4 Result – CDH over Woodbury
Section 4 Preseason Prediction – East Ridge over CDH
Section 5 Result- Champlin Park over Park Center
Section 5 Preseason Prediction – Champlin Park over Mounds View
Section 6 Result – Wayzata over Cooper
Section 6 Preseason Prediction – Wayzata over Hopkins (Cooper was 3, Hopkins had to forfeit for Covid reasons)
Section 7 Result – Duluth East over Coon Rapids
Section 7 Preseason Prediction – Duluth East over Andover
Section 8 Result- Maple Grove over Moorhead
Section 8 Preseason Prediction – Maple Grove over Moorhead
How did I do?
***First off I had to sub my three prediction in for my two (Cooper for Hopkins) because of Covid. So know that before the numbers are totaled.
Sections Predicted Correctly – 5 of 8
Section Title Game Teams Predicted Correctly – 10 of 16
Class AAA
Section 1 Result – Byron over Austin
Section 1 Preseason Prediction – Austin over Byron
Section 2 Result – Mankato West over Marshall
Section 2 Preseason Prediction – Marshall over Mankato East
Section 3 Result – Richfield over South St. Paul
Section 3 Preseason Prediction- Richfield over South St. Paul
Section 4 Result – Minnehaha Academy over Totino-Grace
Section 4 Preseason Prediction – Minnehaha Academy over Totino-Grace
Section 5 Result – Monticello over Delano
Section 5 Preseason Prediction – Delano over Fridley
Section 6 Result – DeLaSalle over Mound-Westonka
Section 6 Preseason Prediction- DeLaSalle over Mound-Westonka
Section 7 Result – Hibbing over Princeton
Section 7 Preseason Prediction – Hibbing over Princeton
Section 8 Result – Alexandria over Sauk Rapids-Rice
Section 8 Preseason Prediction – Alexandria over Sartell
How did I do?
Sections Predicted Correctly – 5 of 8
Section Title Game Teams Predicted Correctly – 13 of 16
Class AA
Section 1 Result – Caledonia over Stewartvile
Section 1 Preseason Prediction – Caledonia over Stewartvile
Section 2 Result – Waseca over Glencoe-Silver Lake
Section 2 Preseason Prediction – Waseca over Jordan
Section 3 Result – Morris Area over Pipestone Area
Section 3 Preseason Prediction – Minnewaska Area over Redwood Valley
Section 4 Result – St Croix Prep over Twin Cities Academy
Section 4 Preseason Prediction – St. Croix Prep over Cristo Rey
Section 5 Result – Minneapolis North over Holy Family
Section 5 Preseason Prediction – Minneapolis North over Blake (Blake was forced to forfeit for reasons of Covid)
Section 6 Result – Annandale over Melrose
Section 6 Preseason Prediction – Melrose over Mora
Section 7 Result – Moose Lake-Willow River over Pequot Lakes
Section 7 Preseason Prediction – Esko over Pierz
Section 8 Result – Fergus Falls over Perham
Section 8 Preseason Prediction – Perham over Fergus Falls
How did I do?
Sections Predicted Correctly – 4 of 8
Section Title Game Teams Predicted Correctly – 8 of 16
Class A
Section 1 Result – Hayfield over Southland
Section 1 Preseason Prediction – Hayfield over Grand Meadow
Section 2 Result – Sleepy Eye-St Mary over St. Clair
Section 2 Preseason Prediction – Nicollet over St. Clair
Section 3 Result – Central MN Christian over SW MN Christian
Section 3 Preseason Prediction – Westbrook-Walnut Grove over SW MN Christian
Section 4 Result – Legacy Christian over CHOF
Section 4 Preseason Prediction – Legacy Christian over CHOF
Section 5 Result- Nevis over Upsala
Section 5 Preseason Prediction – Nevis over East Central
Section 6 Result – Hancock over Mahnomen/Waubun
Section 6 Preseason Prediction – Ashby over Mahnomen/Waubun
Section 7 Result – Deer River over Nashwauk-Keewatin
Section 7 Preseason Prediction – North Woods over Nashwauk-Keewatin
Section 8 Result – Badger/Greenbush-Middle River over Cass Lake-Bena
Section 8 Preseason Prediction – Badger/Greenbush-Middle River vs Fertile-Beltrami
How did I do?
Sections Predicted Correctly – 4 of 8
Section Title Game Teams Predicted Correctly – 9 of 16
Final Numbers
Sections Predicted Correctly – 18 of 32
Section Title Game Teams Predicted Correctly – 40 of 64
The Biggest Misses (underrated)
- Sleepy Eye-St Mary. Easily the biggest mistake of my preseason predictions. Experience back, didn’t rank them all year. Didn’t have them top five before the season. Didn’t even speak about them in the section preview.
- Southland. Had no expectations for them whatsoever. Rebels made the section final.
- Pequot Lakes. Expected them to be good, but not section final good. Didn’t have them top five out of 16 in 7AA.
- Mankato West. Knew they would be improved but not this improved. Picked them fourth in their section.
- Sauk Rapids-Rice. They had a better season than I expected, picked the Storm 5th in the section
- Rosemount. Not a huge miss, had them third in the section and they won. But a miss to a degree.
- Morris Area. Expected them to be good but 4th in the section, they won it and are a top 10 team.
- Hancock. Had them top four in the section, not a huge miss. But a surprise that they beat the #1 team in state.
- Upsala. Would put them higher but it’s from the information available there wasn’t much to go on.