It's  WIAA Regional Final Saturday for area boys basketball teams. Area teams still alive include Eau Claire North, Menomonie, Chippewa Falls, Eleva-Strum, Durand, New Richmond and more.....

Check out our top 5 games of the week feature on our homepage which has been and will be updated frequently during the boys and girls basketball tournament.

 

Today is also the final regular season day for WIAC Men's and Women's basketball teams and there is a lot that still needs to be decided at the top of both the Men's and Women's Conferences. You can check out the current standings on our site and check out the scores on our scoreboard page. Come back to our scoreboard page early next week to find out which teams got what seeds and when they play as the WIAC basketball tournament begins.

 

Today is also WIAA boys hockey sectional final Saturday. The Eau Claire Memorial boys hockey team which is 22-0 on the season faces off against Lakeland with a return trip to Madison on the line for the Old Abes.

 

Speaking of hockey that was UW-Eau Claire's freshman goaltender Lindsay Savat who was on ESPNews Friday afternoon with David Lloyd. Savat who is a freshman from Bloomington, MN is an Iraq War Veteran and was featured in a recent USA Today article which you can read right here. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/2008-02-10-iraqvet-savat_N.htm

 

Just like a year ago we've put up a list of individuals on our homepage who have eclipsed the 1,000 point scoring mark in their basketball careers during the 2007-2008 season. If we have missed anyone please use the contact us button on our homepage.

 

As promised we will look at the WIAA Girls Basketball Regionals which begin this upcoming week.

 

Division 1 Eau Claire North Sectional: Eau Claire Memorial despite losing twice to Eau Claire North got the #1 seed and EC North is the #2 seed. Memorial has a bye while North plays Hudson on Tuesday. North and Memorial would have to be considered favorites to advance to the sectionals while River Falls could be a sleeper team at #4.

 

Division 2 To Be Announced Sectional:  This sectional is by far and away the toughest sectional in the state out of any division!! Altoona, Durand, Somerset, Rice Lake, Sparta, Neillsville, Medford, Hayward, Northwestern, Amery, Barron........   You could pick any one of those teams and make a case for them to advance to Madison. Let's break it down by region. Unity Regional.......Look for Somerset and Hayward to advance to the Regional Final with Northwestern being a sleeper team in that bracket.

Spring Valley Regional: Look for Altoona to meet Durand in the Regional Final with Rice Lake being a sleeper team in that region. Wausau East Regional: Look for Neillsville and Medford to meet up in the Regional Final. In the La Crosse Logan sectional look for Sparta and West Salem to meet in the Regional Final.

 

Division 3 Altoona Sectional: The Altoona Regional in by far and away the toughest of the Regionals with Osseo-Fairchild and Mondovi there. You could make the argument those are the two best teams in the entire sectional so yes those two will meet in the Regional Final.

In the Hudson Regional look for Eau Claire Regis to meet Prescott in the Regional Final. In the Rice Lake Regional look for Ladysmith and Park Falls to meet in the final. In the Amery Regional look for Colfax to meet Boyceville in the final.

Division 3 Holmen Regional look for Whitehall and Melrose-Mindoro to be sleeper teams.

 

Division 4 Spooner Sectional: Will Flambeau make a return trip to state? 1 loss Flambeau and undefeated Clayton are the top two teams in this sectional and it would be a shock if they didn't meet in the sectional final. Some teams that could surprise include Siren, Birchwood, Frederic, and Thorp.

 

Division 4 Durand Regional in the La Crosse Sectional we have Independence and Eleva-Strum. Eleva-Strum handed Independence it's first loss of the season not too long ago. Augusta from a strong Western Cloverbelt Conference could be a sleeper team in that Regional.

 

Good luck to all the area teams and next week we will look at the area boys sectional brackets.