ninja_joe wrote:Region 1: Championship: D2-1 Oak Grove (20-4) vs. D2-2 Enderlin (14-10) *Enderlin has a nice post season going. It's not often too many 14-10 teams get to a regional final, let alone the state tournament. Original pick - Oak Grove. They win easy. They are the defending state champions.
Region 2: Championship: #1 Cavalier (18-5) vs. #2 May-Port-CG (17-6) *No surprises here. Original Pick - May Port CG. This will be close. Brock Robbins is a force BUT this isn't football. Cavalier stays home this year.
Region 3: Championship: D5-1 Oakes (19-5) vs. D5-2 LaMoure-LM (17-7) *Never though Linton would be beaten because of their coaching. Oakes is playing strong & hot offensively. LaMoure knows how to play basketball & are ONLY one year removed from playing at State B. Original Pick - Linton. No idea who wins but it will be a good one.
Region 4: Championship: D7-1 Four Winds-Minnewaukan (21-2) vs. D8-1 North Star (19-4) *It always comes down to these teams the past few years. Original Pick - Four Winds
Region 5: Championship: D9-1 Shiloh Christian (17-6) vs. D9-2 Solen (19-4) *Sure would be nice to see Solen get to state B. Multi-million dollar Shiloh...the casual fan really doesn't want to see the parochial's from the big cities playing. Original Pick - Shiloh (but I will be rootin' for Solen to step up & get it done).
Region 6: Championship: D12-1 Berthold (22-1) vs. D11-1 Rugby (21-2) "It's getting old seeing Rugby in the state B too. You know you have a good run going when people write things like that. Berthold was there not that long ago too. Good teams that both deserve to be in the state tournament. This will be a good game. Original Pick - Rugby
Region 7: Championship: #1 New England (21-2) vs. #3 Dickinson Trinity (16-7) *Extremely over hyped region here. They always are simply because of the number of big schools. I have seen all of these teams play. New England is the only legit state qualifier. Several other regions are better. I don't know the background on how New England team was constructed BUT it doesn't matter to me when it comes to playing yet another parochial school from a bigger city. New England has the size. Trinity will ONCE AGAIN have the home crowd & home cooking. So it will be tough for NE. Original Pick - New England. Definitely pulling for NE!
Region 8: Championship: D15-1 Parshall (16-7) vs. D15-2 New Town (17-6) *I know several people who are watching this tournament. They all say this is the weakest region 8 they have ever seen. With that being said, the two most talented teams are in the final. Parshall plays more like a team than New Town & plays harder. Way harder. Original Pick - Parshall Parshall might just win this one in a runaway to be honest...
Region Championship night is always special in ND class B towns. Good luck to all teams!
Howie wrote:Now please don't take this the wrong way. Trinity is a very very good team, no one is questioning that. Do you seriously not think it's an advantage to play on your home court every year in the Regional Tournament???
scruffy wrote:No. Totally different crowd. These teams also play on the floor for a holiday tournament and regular season games.. It's really an awesome atmosphere for all teams involved. Good "experience" for any team that comes out of this region.
larrybird33 wrote:It's an advantage. The question is, how much time is it worth spending on this advantage?
And I ask that question because there are two more questions that the home court advantage folks never seem to want to answer.
1) Who voted to put this tournament at Trinity in the first place? Answer: your school's AD did.
2) Where else should we play this tournament, if not Trinity?
The "best" alternatives include:
A - Dickinson High, and approximately 800 spectators are turned away at the door
B - Dickinson State, and approximately 1200 spectators are turned away
C - Bismarck (facility to-be-determined)
D - Glendive, Montana
E - Hazen (if you're completely fine with a different school having home court advantage)
F - The Dickinson Rec Center hockey arena, which has never been converted into a basketball facility before.
I've also never heard of another school (Heart River, for example) saying "some of the wins on our schedule (Trinity, for example) aren't legit because we had a home court advantage when we beat them." A little consistency here would seem reasonable.
DBA wrote:Heart river probably beats trinity last night on a neutral floor. They beat them in south heart during the season
Here's some food for thought regarding home court advantage using some Region 7 teams alone:Howie wrote:Now please don't take this the wrong way. Trinity is a very very good team, no one is questioning that. Do you seriously not think it's an advantage to play on your home court every year in the Regional Tournament???
THEGODFATHER wrote:Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't believe Beulah ever won it on their home court, only at Trinity and I think Trinity has won it in Beulah?
thundarsdaddy wrote:Region 6 in Minot...Rugby 12-Berthold 9 in a back'n'forth first quarter.
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