Granite City Classic Boys and Girls B-Ball Starts Today
The Granite City Classic boys and girls basketball event returns to the St. Cloud area today-Saturday. The 2-day event is put on by Breakdown Sports USA for the 13th straight year. Justin Hegna of Breakdown Sports joined me on WJON. He says they will have 84 varsity teams and more than 100 sophomore or junior varsity teams competing at venues throughout the metro area. Hegna says they will use St. Cloud State, St. John's, St. Ben's, Tech, Apollo, Sartell-St. Stephen and Sauk Rapids-Rice high school gyms for varsity games and other area venues for the lower levels.
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The schedule of events below:
| December 29, 2023 Granite City Classic @ St. Cloud State Univ. | December 29, 2023 Granite City Classic @ St. John's Univ. | ||||||
| TIME | AWAY TEAM | HOME TEAM | TIME | AWAY TEAM | HOME TEAM | ||
| 2:00 PM | Mankato East | Orono | G | NOON | Prior Lake | Champlin Park | B |
| 3:30 PM | Mankato East | Orono | B | 1:30 PM | Nevis | BBE | B |
| 5:15 PM | Stewartville | Alexandria | G | 3:15 PM | Fridley | ROCORI | B |
| 6:45 PM | Stewartville | Alexandria | B | 4:45 PM | Annandale | Osakis | B |
| 8:15 PM | St. Cloud Tech | Fargo North, ND | B | 6:15 PM | Crosby-Ironton | Albany | G |
| 8:00 PM | Sauk Rapids-Rice | Albany | B | ||||
| December 29, 2023 Granite City Classic @ College of St. Ben's | December 29, 2023 Granite City Classic @ St. Cloud Tech HS | ||||||
| TIME | AWAY TEAM | HOME TEAM | TIME | AWAY TEAM | HOME TEAM | ||
| 10:00 AM | Southwest Christian | Pequot Lakes | G | 11:30 AM | Pierz | Hawley | G |
| 11:30 AM | Holdingford | Hancock | G | 1:15 PM | Rockford | Hawley | B |
| 1:15 PM | Duluth Marshall | Becker | G | 2:45 PM | MIB | BOLD | B |
| 2:45 PM | Delano | Prior Lake | G | 4:15 PM | MIB | Goodhue | G |
| 4:15 PM | Lakeville North | White Bear Lake | G | 6:00 PM | Fargo South, ND | St. Cloud Crush | G |
| 6:00 PM | Minot, ND | Wayzata | G | 7:30 PM | Becker | Mandan, ND | B |
| 7:30 PM | Providence Academy | Hopkins | G | ||||
| December 29, 2023 Granite City Classic @ St. Cloud Apollo HS | December 29, 2023 Granite City Classic @ Sartell-St. Stephen HS | ||||||
| TIME | AWAY TEAM | HOME TEAM | TIME | AWAY TEAM | HOME TEAM | ||
| 11:00 AM | Cass Lake-Bena | BBE | G | 11:30 AM | Bloomington Jefferson | Sartell-St. Stephen | G |
| 12:30 PM | Brainerd | Robbinsdale Armstrong | G | 1:15 PM | Spring Lake Park | Tartan | G |
| 2:15 PM | Grand Rapids | Hutchinson | B | 2:45 PM | Spring Lake Park | STMA | B |
| 3:45PM | Fargo South, ND | Rogers | B | 4:15 PM | Mandan, ND | Buffalo | G |
| 5:15PM | Blake | Cass Lake-Bena | B | 6:00 PM | Elk River | Buffalo | B |
| 7:00PM | Robbinsdale Cooper | St. Cloud Apollo | B | 7:30 PM | Stillwater | Sartell-St. Stephen | B |
| December 29, 2023 Granite City Classic @ Sauk Rapids-Rice HS | |||||||
| TIME | AWAY TEAM | HOME TEAM | |||||
| 1:00PM | Providence Academy | St. Croix Prep | B | ||||
| 2:30PM | Rochester Century | Anoka | G | ||||
| 4:15 PM | Fargo North, ND | Robbinsdale Cooper | G | ||||
| 5:45PM | West Fargo Horace, ND | Minnewaska | G | ||||
| 7:15PM | West Fargo Horace, ND | Princeton | B | ||||
| December 30, 2023 Granite City Classic @ St. Cloud State Univ. | December 30, 2023 Granite City Classic @ St. John's Univ. | ||||||
| TIME | AWAY TEAM | HOME TEAM | TIME | AWAY TEAM | HOME TEAM | ||
| 2:00 PM | Rockford | Nevis | B | 11:00 AM | Mandan, ND | Osakis | B |
| 3:30 PM | Hawley | Providence Academy | B | 12:30 PM | ROCORI | Grand Rapids | B |
| 5:15 PM | Princeton | Spring Lake Park | B | 2:15 PM | Orono | Stewartville | B |
| 6:45 PM | Brainerd | Prior Lake | B | 3:45 PM | Alexandria | Mankato East | G |
| 8:15 PM | Hutchinson | Annandale | B | 5:15 PM | Alexandria | Mankato East | B |
| 7:00 PM | Albany | MIB | G | ||||
| 8:30 PM | Albany | Southwest Christian | B | ||||
| December 30, 2023 Granite City Classic @ College of St. Ben's | December 30, 2023 Granite City Classic @ St. Cloud Tech HS | ||||||
| TIME | AWAY TEAM | HOME TEAM | TIME | AWAY TEAM | HOME TEAM | ||
| 10:00 AM | Goodhue | Crosby-Ironton | G | 11:00AM | Orono | White Bear Lake | G |
| 11:30 AM | Minnetonka | Stewartville | G | 12:30PM | Rochester Century | Robbinsdale Cooper | G |
| 1:15 PM | Hopkins | Minot, ND | G | 2:15PM | Spring Lake Park | Mandan, ND | G |
| 2:45 PM | Duluth Marshall | Providence Academy | G | 3:45PM | Pierz | Cass Lake-Bena | G |
| 4:15 PM | Maple Grove | Prior Lake | G | 5:15PM | Holdingford | Pequot Lakes | G |
| 6:00 PM | Wayzata | Lakeville North | G | 7:00PM | Robbinsdale Cooper | St. Cloud Tech | B |
| 7:30 PM | Hancock | Becker | G | ||||
| December 30, 2023 Granite City Classic @ St. Cloud Apollo HS | December 30, 2023 Granite City Classic @ Sartell-St. Stephen HS | ||||||
| TIME | AWAY TEAM | HOME TEAM | TIME | AWAY TEAM | HOME TEAM | ||
| 11:00 AM | St. Cloud Crush | West Fargo Horace | G | 11:30 AM | Robbinsdale Armstrong | Fargo North, ND | G |
| 12:30 PM | Centennial | West Fargo Horace | B | 1:15 PM | Fargo North, ND | Champlin Park | B |
| 2:15 PM | BBE | Hawley | G | 2:45 PM | Brainerd | Delano | G |
| 3:45PM | BBE | MIB | B | 4:30PM | St. Croix Prep | Becker | B |
| 5:15PM | Cass Lake-Bena | BOLD | B | 6:00 PM | Tartan | Sartell-St. Stephen | G |
| 7:00PM | Blake | St. Cloud Apollo | B | 7:30 PM | Elk River | Sartell-St. Stephen | B |
| December 30, 2023 Granite City Classic @ Sauk Rapids-Rice HS | |||||||
| TIME | AWAY TEAM | HOME TEAM | |||||
| 11:30 AM | Fargo South, ND | Bloomington Jefferson | G | ||||
| 1:15 PM | STMA | Fargo South, ND | B | ||||
| 2:45 PM | Minnewaska | Southwest Christian | G | ||||
| 4:15 PM | Rogers | Stillwater | B | ||||
| 6:00 PM | Buffalo | Anoka | G | ||||
| 7:30 PM | Buffalo | Sauk Rapids-Rice | B |
If you'd like to listen to my conversation with Justin Hegna it is available below.
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