What If… We had a 17U Sweet 16 State Championship?
What if the best sixteen 17 and Under teams, or sixteen of the best 17u teams played in a year end state championship? What would it look like? Today we give you an idea….. ***Before we get any further, I…
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Continue ReadingWhat if the best sixteen 17 and Under teams, or sixteen of the best 17u teams played in a year end state championship? What would it look like? Today we give you an idea…..
***Before we get any further, I am not seeding these teams. Just listing one program over the other seeding wise would result in my DMs, cell phone, and twitter messages filled with adults yelling at me about disrespect, me being a “clown who don’t know basketball”, favoritism, and you know name it, it would come. From adults, not kids, from adults.
This is exactly why we no longer rank the AAU teams in Minnesota. This sucks because it was something everybody liked to look at and it was a way to continue to give the AAU/Grassroots/Spring-Summer game even more legitimacy against people that trash talk the spring/summer level of play. But again, adults couldn’t handle it.
How did we get this Sweet 16? I went to my list of records and picked 16. I moved some around (no that is not a ranking listed in there) to make sure we get some new match-ups in round one (I don’t have Select Mantey vs Heat PVR listed as playing so I have them playing although that could be wrong). So based on success, level of play from our 17u teams, and of course with difficulty of schedule factored in, here is our Sweet 16. And of course we will have a play-in game for some drama!
Bracket 1 (upper left)
Minnesota Fury Antl vs Real Phenom Nick/Minnesota Rise
Minnesota Lightning Ellerbusch vs Northstar Titans Stone
Bracket 2 (lower left)
Gain Elite vs Minnesota Comets Gagner
Minnesota Select Mantey vs Minnesota Heat PVR
Bracket 3 (upper right)
D1 Minnesota 3SSB vs Playmakers North
WOTN vs Howard Pulley
Bracket 4 (lower right)
Minnesota Chill vs Starks Elite
J Sizzle 3SSB vs Minnesota Comets Elite
Summary: When you look at those match-ups and project how that event would go, imagine how fun that would be to watch!