Funnily enough, both players were there at Maddyn’s first state tournament game — Chloe in the stands, watching Hilltoppers standout Gianna Kneepkens drop 67 points in a loss to Providence Academy.
Minnesota’s two highest-ranked national girls basketball recruits (per ESPN) will face off in today’s 2A championship game — one writing the last chapter of her state tournament career, the other writing her first.
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Even those outside Minnesota should already know about Maddyn Greenway, the daughter of former Vikings linebacker Chad Greenway, and how she's carved her name into state's record books.
If you don't, get acquainted:
Call her "McMaddyn" or "All-Minnesota Player of the Year" — but Providence Academy senior Maddyn Greenway's hope is that, at the end of the week, you can call her and the Lions "five-time basketball state champs" before she heads to Kentucky.
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*Mountain Iron-Buhl!
From Minnesota’s biggest school to Mountain-Iron Buhl, everybody wants in. Here’s how the Vikings-sponsored girls flag football league will look this spring as it more than doubles in size.
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It's been such a joy to watch this story come together from the sidelines. Shoutout to Lindsey Vonn for skiing through the whole ACL thing so that we could still publish it. www.startribune.com/five-mountai...
Happy National Girls and Women in Sports Day. It's a melancholy one, for me, watching layoffs hit both my hometown paper in Atlanta and a WaPo sports section with writers who I admire greatly. Telling the stories of girls and women in sports, at any level, is so, so important.
Today is a great day to pay for sports journalism that you value.
The front page of tomorrow's Minnesota Star Tribune: Feb. 1, 2026
Must read: "Holding facilities were so crowded that immigrants in one cell had to take turns lying down because there was no space, according to a refugee detained there for one night in January. Basic human needs like food and medical care were sometimes denied."
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Kelsey Plum said she and Napheesa Collier will be among the players who will attend a CBA meeting in NYC. She said this is her first meeting she's been able to attend in person since the playoffs.
Unrivaled co-founder and WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart held up an “Abolish ICE” sign during player intros ahead of Mist’s game this afternoon.
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Vigils were held around Minneapolis and beyond Saturday night in the wake of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents.
Photo and video: Jeff Wheeler, Anthony Souffle, Simon Peter Groebner/The Minnesota Star Tribune.
Sharing for the Lynx fans here, from @startribune.com coverage of today’s protests by Kyeland Jackson and Alex Kormann
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Almost every day for the last couple weeks, a big stack of pizzas or boxes of bagels or other goodies show up in the @startribune.com newsroom, paid for by journalists at other news orgs around the country.
More photos from last night’s game:
Gophers WBB commit, Crosby-Ironton senior PG Tori Oehrlein scored a career-high 57 points last night to pass Rebekah Dahlman's GBB career scoring record of 5,060 points. Dahlman passed the torch to Oehrlein in Crosby. Oehrlein holds the state rebounding record, too. @stribsports.startribune.com
President Donald Trump this morning threatened to use the Insurrection Act in Minnesota, following protests after a federal agent shot a man in the leg after an alleged assault on the officer.
Minneapolis rising Thursday morning.
Latest on the federal forces in Minnesota from me and my colleague Jeff Hargarten:
There are now more federal immigration agents in MN than the 10 largest Twin Cities police departments combined.
9% of ICE is in MN right now, even though MN has less than 1% of the nation's undocumented immigrants.
Minnesota and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul sue Department of Homeland Security over ICE surge
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Still no CBA deal, but the players union and the WNBA have agreed to a moratorium that will suspend free agency until a new agreement is signed.
