Men's Tournament Bracket

	1) Eden Prairie
8) Nikomis	Game 5
	N. Brighton
9) N. Brighton		Game 9
	4) Maple Grove
5) SC	Game 6
	Shingle Creek
12) Anoka/And'vr
			Game 11
	3) Twin City 1
	Game 7
6) West St Paul
	West St Paul
11) Chaska/Waconia		Game 10
	2) Blaine
	Game 8
7) N. St Paul
	Plymouth
10) Plymouth

Eligibility Notes:

• Any baptized member of your ward can play regardless if they played during the season.
• Any non-members must have played for their team at least once during the regular season.
• Before each game before the prayer lets establish who are member and who are non members and high school players. 
• Remember only two non members per team on the court at a time.

Overtime Note:

• In the tournament there is no sudden death.  
• 2 minute overtime periods will continue until there is a winner. 
• The first  overtime period starts with a jump ball, and the alternating possession arrow is reset. 
• Additional overtime periods will have starting possession determined by the alternating possession arrow.

Season Postponed for Easter

A number of wards have notified us that they will have difficultly fielding a team due to Easter and General Conference plans.

In consideration of that, we will postpone games this week and pick up again on April 5th.

Week 9 Schedule & YM Tournament 1st Round

	Week 9	3/22/2018
	at Anoka	at St. Paul	at Minneapolis
6:30			Nik v SV (YM 1)
7:30	Chaska vs MG	NB vs St.Paul	TC1 vs SC
8:30	AA vs Nikomis	Ply vs W. SP	EP/BL vs Blaine
9:30
Men BYE	NSP
YM BYE	YM Tournament 1st round

We will begin the Young Mens tournament this week.  This will result in most teams having the week off. Please see the related post below.

The Mens Tournament is planned to begin next week, on March 29th.

YM Tournament

We will start the YM Tournament this upcoming week. 
As planned, it will conclude on April 12th.
Please see the Eligibility and Overtime notes below the bracket.


2018 Young Mens Tournament Bracket

March 22	March 29	April 5	April 12
	(2) Andover/Anoka
	YM 2	West St Paul
	West St. Paul
		YM 6
	(3) Shingle Creek
	YM 3	Shingle Creek
	Waconia
			YM 8
	(4) Maple Grove
	YM 4	Maple Grove
	Plymouth
Nikomis		YM 7
YM 1
Shoreview	YM 5	Chaska
	(1) Chaska

Eligibility Notes:

• Any baptized member of your ward can play regardless if they played during the season.
• Any non-members must have played for their team at least once during the regular season.
• High  school  players may play under the following conditions:
• The season must have ended for their HS team.
• They must be baptized members of your ward. 
• Only one may be on the court at a time.
• Before each game before the prayer lets establish who are member and who are non members and high school players. 
• Remember only two non members per team on the court at a time.

Overtime Note:

• In the tournament there is no sudden death.  
• 2 minute overtime periods will continue until there is a winner. 
• The first  overtime period starts with a jump ball, and the alternating possession arrow is reset. 
• Additional overtime periods will have starting possession determined by the alternating possession arrow.

Week 8 Schedule

	Week 8	3/15/2018
	at Anoka	at St. Paul	at Minneapolis
6:30			Nik v SV (YM)
7:30	MG v WSP (YM)	Ply v AA (YM)	CHA v SC (YM)
8:30	MG v Nik	AA v St Paul	WSP v Cha
9:30	SC v NSP	Blaine v TC1	EP v NB
Men BYE	Plymouth
YM BYE	Waconia

Week 7 Schedule

UPDATE:  SOME GAMES CHANGED AS OF MONDAY MORNING.  CHECK BELOW!!!

	Week 7	3/8/2018
	at Anoka	at St. Paul	at Minneapolis
6:30		WSP v PLY(YM)	CHA v AA (YM)
7:30	MG v SC(YM)	St. Paul  v Blaine	WAC v SV (YM)
8:30	MG v TC1	Nik v W.SP	Cha v NB
9:30	SC v Ply	AA v NSP
Men BYE	EP
YM BYE	Nik

Week 6 Schedule

	Week 6	3/1/2018
	at Anoka	at St. Paul	at Minneapolis
6:30	XXX	Nik v SC (YM)	MG v Cha (YM)
7:30	XXX	WSP v Wac (YM)	AA v Cha
8:30	XXX	SC v NB	MG v EP
9:30	XXX	TC1 v NSP	Blaine v Ply
Men BYE	WSP, Nik, SP
YM BYE	AA, SV, Ply

Week 5 Schedule

Notes:  

• Standings have been posted on the Standings page.
• The schedule through week 6 is posted on the Schedule page.
• YM teams without coaches or active adult involvement appear to have trouble fielding 5 players.  Adults, please assist the YM from your ward with the logistics in fielding a team and making the games happen.

	Week 5	2/22/2018
	at Anoka	at St. Paul	at Minneapolis
6:30			SV v Cha (YM)
7:30	SC v Ply (YM)	W.SP v AA (YM)	Wac v Nik (YM)
8:30	SC v Blaine	W.SP v AA	EP v TC1
9:30	MG v NSP	SP v Ply	Nik v Cha
Men BYE	NB
YM BYE	MG

Week 4 Schedule

	Week 4	2/15/2018
	at Anoka	at St. Paul	at Minneapolis
6:30		SV vs Ply (YM)	MG vs Nok (YM)
7:30		W.SP vs SC (YM)	Cha vs Wac(YM)
8:30	MG vs Plymouth	Blaine vs W.SP	TC1 vs Nikomis
9:30	AA vs NB	SP vs N.SP	SC vs EP
Men BYE	CHA
YM BYE	AA (YM)

Notes:

• The "Chakonia" YM team is splitting into 2 teams, Waconia (YM) and Chaska (YM)
• Twin Cities 1st Ward (Spanish) is joining the league.
• I'm hoping to have the final schedule out in one or two weeks as things stabilize.
• I am aiming to have the playoffs finish by the end of April.
•  I am trying to minimize the travel required.  Teams are spread out over vary large areas.  This is an interesting problem with complexity that is increasing as the season progresses.

Week 3 Schedule

	Week 3	2/8/2018
	at Anoka	at St. Paul	at Minneapolis
6:30	SC vs MG (YM)
7:30	SV vs AA (YM)	W.SP vs Nok (YM)	Ply vs Chakonia (YM)
8:30	MG vs AA	W.SP vs SP	Blaine vs Chakonia
9:30	SC vs Nok	N.SP vs NB	Ply vs EP/Blm
Men BYE
YM BYE

Week 2 Schedule

	Week 2	2/1/2018
	at Anoka	at St. Paul	at Minneapolis
6:30	XXX	W.SP vs SV (YM)	Ply/Tka vs MG (YM)
7:30	XXX	NB vs Blaine	Chakonia vs Nok (YM)
8:30	XXX	W.SP vs N.SP	Ply/Tka vs Chakonia
9:30	XXX	St. Paul vs MG	Nok vs EP/Blm
Men BYE	AA, SC
YM BYE	AA, SC

Note: The Anoka Stake Center is unavailable due to scout meetings, so we're only using 2 buildings this week.

Weekly Basketball Referee assignments

Missing an assignment  counts as a forfeit to the men's team.
Three forfeits for a team and they are out of the  tournament.

Young Men   

• The YM coaches are responsible for the refereeing,  
• Either a coach, parent, volunteer can ref or the boys can self officiate. 
• We will provide referees will be provided for the tournament.

Men

• Each team shall provide a referee and a scorekeeper for the games they are to officiate.
• The teams playing in the earliest/first men's game (e.g. 8 PM) officiate the middle/second men's game (e.g.  9 PM)
• The teams playing in the middle/second men's game (e.g. 9 PM) officiate the earliest/first men's game (e.g.  8 PM) and the last/third  (e.g 10 PM)
• The teams playing in the last/third men's game (e.g. 10 PM) have no officiating responsibilities.   We ask they help close the building by locking doors, turning off lights and picking up the chairs from the bench and the stage.

Week 1 Schedule

Announcements: 
The following teams have players looking to merge with another ward or team:

• The Young Single Adult (YSA) Men.
• Elm Creek YM  

  Let me know if you are interested and we will begin making arrangements. 

Schedule

	Week 1	1/25/2018
	at Anoka	at St. Paul	at Minneapolis
6:30
7:30	AA vs MG (YM)	SC vs SV (YM)	Nok vs Plym (YM)
8:30	AA vs SC	NB vs W.SP	Nok vs Ply/Tka
9:30		Blaine vs N.SP	EP/Blm vs Chaconia
Men BYE	MG
YM BYE	Chaconia, W.SP

Key
AA = Anoka/Andover
Chaconia = Chaska/Waconia
EP/BLM = Eden Prairie/Bloomington
MG = Maple Grove
NB = New Brighton
Nok = Nokomis
N.SP = North St Paul
Ply/Tka = Plymouth/Minnetonka
SC = Shingle Creek
SV = Shoreview
W.SP = West St Paul

   Hi aLL  Gary  Campion here.  We have to appologize  if  you hadn't  heard i had to ask to be released,  not for lack of desire but doctors  orders, knee issues,  Andrew Thomas of the Maple Grove Ward  has been called to take my place. 
  I thought I made the change on the Blog  contact list but I must have forgot to click Update. 
  It has been corrected. 
    The games usually start the second Thursday of January, this year will start on the third as we get organized. 
   Have a great season

Anoka stake AD   Andrew Thomas  763-245-7438
Minneapolis stake AD  Aaron Brady  952-261-2447
St. Paul stake AD  Billy Hyan     612-290-7575