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Rivals released their final 2010 rankings today.  Kevin Noreen and Jacob Thomas both miss out on that final ranking.   Here are the player...

Prologue I finally get a trip to St. Louis Park in after missing out on them on the opening Friday of the season.  Columbia Heights is the ...

Prologue To the Haben Center at Benilde-St. Margaret's for senior night for BSM's 4 seniors.  These teams tied for 2nd 1 game behin...

Prologue If its a bad travel night, that must mean a cold miserable trip up the hill into the wind to Columbia Heights to see the Hylanders...

The final 25 for the 2010 Minnesota Mr Basketball award have been announced.  Here they are followed by my commentary. Peter Crawford 6-5 ...

Willie Braziel Prologue Another trip to #6AAA Columbia Heights as the #2AAA Red Knights of Benilde-St. Margaret's visit.  Heights tryi...

Prologue Another trip to Columbia Heights, this time to see one of the season's pleasant early season surprises Park Center.  The Pirat...

What a day at the 2009 Breakdown Tip-Off Classic.  20 of the 24 boys teams were ranked and 3 of the 4 unranked teams had stars to follow.  S...

Noted recruiting analyst Bob Gibbons came out with an updated top 200 for the class of 2010 this week.  Kevin Noreen moves up to #157 from #...

Prologue I've got 1 hand in my pocket and other has fallen off due to frostbite.  Brutal walk up the hill to Columbia Heights as the #4...

2 of Minnesota's top players in 2010 made their commitments over the last few days. Chad Calcaterra of Cloquet committed to Colorado St...

Bob Gibbons (one of the nation's longest running recruiting analysts) just released his post summer 2009 top 175 (more like 200) for the...

The cycle of updated rankings begins. ESPN just released their updated rankings for the class of 2010. Jacob Thomas remains the only MN p...

Scout.com also kept Jacob Thomas out of their pre-open period top 100 for the class of 2010. (I talk about this more in my previous post ab...

Rivals released their going into the open period rankings for the class of 2010 . It was widely believed that after ESPN put Jacob Thomas a...

ESPN.com came out with their 2010 rankings last week and for the 1st time, we see a Minnesota player in the rankings. Thanks to a big sprin...

Last week GopherHole had the chance to catch up with a pair of possible 2010 Gopher recruits in guard Jacob Thomas of Columbia Heights and c...

Game #100 of the season is a non-conference matchup of top guards in the state as I travel to St. Bernard's for their matchup with Colum...

Game 2 of this Saturday takes me to Columbia Heights for their battle with Minnetonka. 2010 star guards Cole Stefan and Jacob Thomas on dis...

A snowy night in the Kingdom takes The Czar on a miserable trip to Columbia Heights. But I'm not the only one who had a bad trip. Coop...