For the third time this season, Northfield and Mankato East will meet on the basketball court. Mankato East won the first meeting, and Northfield evened the score in December.

The winner plays No. 1 seed Totino-Grace in Thursday’s semifinals.

Follow updates from the second day of the boys basketball state tournament below, and visit Strib Varsity’s boys basketball hub for scores, schedules and stories.

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3A, pregame: No. 4 Northfield (25-3) vs last year’s state runner up, No. 5 Mankato East (21-7).

This trip to Williams Arena been a long time coming for Northfield; the Raiders snapped a 94-year state tournament drought with a Section 1 championship win over Austin.

“I think Amelia Earhart was flying around the world,” Northfield coach and alumni Matt Christensen told Strib Varsity reporter Marcus Fuller when discussing the team’s last tournament appearance in 1932.

All-Minnesota senior forward Kayden Oakland, a South Dakota State football commit, averages 21 points, 8.8 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game for the Raiders.

While Mankato East finished second in Class 3A in both 2024 and 2025, the Cougars will look a little different heading into the program’s 14th trip to state. After last season, head coach Joe Madson resigned after 24 years leading the Cougars, hoping to catch more of his kids athletic careers, including that of his son, Brogan, who graduated last season and played his freshman year at Sioux Falls after leading the Cougars in scoring. Former assistant Dave Makela took over the Cougars program.

Senior guard Lucas Gustafson, a Northwestern College commit, is now Mankato East’s go-to scorer and had 28 points in a 72-53 win over St. Peter in the Section 2 championship game. Senior Amari Nobles, a 6-foot-7 forward and another player to watch for the Cougars, scored 20 in that win.

These two teams started their seasons against one another, a 74-72 Mankato East victory on Dec. 2. Northfield got revenge in a 62-58 Raiders win on Jan. 24.

— Cassidy Hettesheimer

3A Final: Totino-Grace 90, Minneapolis South 56

Senior Dothan Ijadimbola finished with 22 points and 11 rebounds to lead top-seeded Totino-Grace to a convincing 90-56 victory against No. 8 Minneapolis South at Williams Arena.

Ijadimbola had 13 points in the second half for Totino-Grace (25-2), which won its 20th game in a row. It will be playing in the semifinals for the sixth straight season, which included three consecutive state titles from 2022-24.

The Eagles will play the winner of No. 4 Northfield vs. No. 5 Mankato East on Thursday.

The Tigers (21-9) were led by Jumair Wright with 21 points, eight rebounds and six assists, but he also had 11 of his team’s 24 turnovers. DeAngelo Dungey added 15 points and seven of TG’s 18 steals in the game.

— Marcus Fuller

3A: Tigers turnovers fuel transition game for the Eagles

Minneapolis South’s scouting report had to include limiting Totino-Grace in transition game as priority No. 1. The Tigers did just the opposite.

The Eagles blew the game wide open outscoring their opponent 24-7 to open the second half fueled by their defense. Luther Bunge’s dunk midway through the second half gave his team a 30-point advantage. At that point, TG had 10 of its 19 fastbreak points in the second half, which included scoring 25 points off 20 turnovers.

With less than five minutes to play, the Eagles led 73-50 while outscoring the Tigers 21-10 in fastbreak points.

— Marcus Fuller

3A: Dungey takes over to start the second half

Totino-Grace’s DeAngelo Dungey entered the state tournament as one of the hottest players in the state.

The 6-4 senior averaged 24 points during an eight-game stretch for the Eagles, which included 31 points vs. Champlin Park and 25 points vs. Alexandria.

Dungey, who played for Breck in the 2024 Class 2A championship game, helped TG open the second half with an 17-6 start. He scored his team-best 15th point for a 49-26 lead with just under 15 minutes left.

— Marcus Fuller

3A halftime: Totino-Grace 38, Minneapolis South 23

The first half between Totino-Grace and Minneapolis South looked like two teams shaking off rust after not having any games for more than a week (the boys tournament was delayed a week because Williams Arena was previously reserved to host the first and second rounds of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament).

The two teams had a combined 27 turnovers and 10 missed free throws. The Eagles, though, scored 15 points off 15 turnovers to take control for a 38-23 halftime advantage.

Top-seeded Totino-Grace had no players in double figures in the first half, but Dothan Ijadimbola, DeAngelo Dungey and Malachi Hill combined for 24 points. Minneapolis South is being led by Ridwan Ibrahim’s 10 points. Jumair Wright, who had 31 points in the section finals, has nine points on 3-for-13 shooting in the first half, to go with eight turnovers and seven rebounds.

— Marcus Fuller

3A: South’s leading scorer returns to the game

Minneapolis South sophomore Jumair Wright had a frustrating first half get worse when he left for the locker room following a collision.

Wright changed his jersey from No. 11 to No. 30 because of some blood splatter. He returned to the game a couple of minutes later looking like a different player.

The 5-10 high-scoring guard put up five quick points after starting the game 1-for-7 from the field, but that didn’t help the Tigers fight off a Totino-Grace surge to trail by as much as 15 points (now 36-22).

— Marcus Fuller

3A: Minneapolis South battles back with a run

Minneapolis South trailed by 13 points with less than eight minutes to play before Totino-Grace was called for a technical foul.

It seemed to be a questionable call, but Eagles junior Malachi Hill was whistled for taunting. That led to the Tigers going on an 8-0 run, which included six points from Ridwan Ibrahim, who now has 10 points, to get South within 21-16 with just over six minutes to play in the first half.

Totino-Grace answered to stretch out the lead to double figures again. Minneapolis South took a hit offensively when leading scorer Jumair Wright went to the locker room after being hit in the face colliding with an opposing player.

— Marcus Fuller

3A: Carroll goes deep into his bench

Totino-Grace coach Nick Carroll didn’t like what he was seeing with his team’s offensive rhythm early in today’s quarterfinals, so he went deeper into his bench.

Before the midway point in the first half, Carroll had already put 10 players into the game. The Eagles started the game shooting 5-for-15 from the field and 2-for-6 from the foul line.

Senior Dothan Ijadimbola scored his first two field goals of the game to stretch Totino-Grace’s lead to 17-6 around the nine-minute mark, including a putback on his own missed free throw.

Minneapolis South struggled offensively as well with 10 turnovers, which led to nine points by Totino-Grace in the first half.

— Marcus Fuller

3A: Eagles set the tone early against Minneapolis South

The Totino-Grace student section started chants of “this is over” before their team even scored its the first basket. Did they not see what happened to defending champion Wayzata in its upset loss to Apple Valley on Tuesday, March 24?

The top-seeded Eagles have won 19 consecutive games, but they opened the game with missed free throws and a couple of turnovers. That let Minneapolis South hang around in the first few minutes in today’s 3A quarterfinals at the Barn.

Totino-Grace’s defense forced the Tigers to start 1-for-5 from the field, which included slowing down sophomore scorer Jumair Wright, who averages 22 points per game.

Junior Malachi Hill’s basket plus the foul and three-pointer made it 10-2 with 14:15 to play, including a 7-0 run.

— Marcus Fuller

3A, pregame: Minneapolis South vs. Totino-Grace

No. 1 Totino-Grace enters today’s 3A quarterfinals at Williams Arena against Minneapolis South as the most dominant boys basketball program still standing.

The top-seeded Eagles (24-2) have won three of the past four Class 3A titles. It took Mr. Basketball Chase Thompson from Alexandria to stop a potential four-peat last season.

Apple Valley’s upset of defending Class 4A champion Wayzata on Tuesday means Tartan (No. 1) and Totino-Grace (No. 3) are the highest-ranked teams remaining from Strib Varsity’s last statewide top 25.

The Eagles, 3A’s Section 5 champs, are led by seniors Dothan Ijadimbola, Tian Chatman and DeAngelo Dungey, who have led them to 19 victories in a row. Juniors Malachi Hill and A.J. Taban and sophomore Daniel Zoa are also part of one of the deepest rotations in the state regardless of class.

Dungey, who was on Breck’s 2A championship team in 2024, averaged nearly 24 points for Totino-Grace during an undefeated eight-game streak in January and February. Ijadimbola had 20 points in TG’s section final win vs. Becker on March 12.

No. 8 seed Minneapolis South (21-8) is led by sophomore Jumair Wright and junior Ramadan Ibrahim, who averaged nearly 23 points and 19 points in the regular season, respectively.

Wright had a triple-double with 31 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists in a 72-64 win against South St. Paul in the Class 3A, Section 3 championship. The Tigers last played in the state tournament in 2024.

— Marcus Fuller