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Boys' basketball: 10 things to know about 1A
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Share on Digg1. 1 Bertha-Hewitt (28-0) is one of only two teams in the entire tournament that has not lost a game. The Bears are 76-6 over the past three seasons. Class 2A entrant Crosby-Ironton is 30-0.
2. Basketball is a family affair at Bertha-Hewitt. Head coach Dale Finck is in his first year after taking over for his father, Dick, who won more than 500 games. Dale's sister, Kristy, is the head girls' coach.
3. Chisholm coach Bob McDonald is in his 53rd year as a head coach, the past 47 at Chisholm. He's coached the Bluestreaks to state championships in 1973, 1975 and 1991.
4. Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton has won 20 games for the first time in 11 years, befitting the team motto (a play on the school's initials JWP): Just Win Period.
5. Minnesota Transitions Charter School of Minneapolis is the first team from a charter school in state history to qualify for the state tournament.
6. Minnesota Transitions averages 94 points per game, scored more than 110 points nine times and set a state record for points in a single game this season when it beat ECHO Charter 156-33 in the season opener.
7. Interestingly, Transitions is not the highest scoring team in the field. That designation belongs to Cass Lake-Bena. The Panthers average 98.1 points and have topped 100 points 11 times.
8. Cody Schilling, the star guard for defending state champion Ellsworth, needs 23 points to become the leading scorer in state history. The record of 3,366 is held by Isaiah Dahlman, who played for Braham from 2002 to 2006.
9. Chisholm and Ellsworth are not the only teams in the 1A field that have won state titles. Norman County East -- which combines the towns of Twin Valley and Gary -- won the Class 1A championship in 1998.
10. The apples don't fall far from the tree at Granada-Huntley-East Chain. Coach Robbin Celander and assistant Dave Nawrocki played at old East Chain High School, and both have sons playing in the school system.
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Ellsworth, real Hoosiers
Ellsworth is a small SW MN farming community of about 550. They still have their own school with class sizes of about 15 per class. Cool … read more to see a small town competing at a high level against everyone else, always bigger. Winning state last year was just like the movie. Hopefully they do it again.
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