WIAA State Girls Basketball Tournament Preview: Division 3
Tuesday, March 11th, 2025 -- 6:21 AM
The 49th WIAA Girls Basketball State Tournament will take place this Thursday-Saturday at the Resch Center in Green Bay.
The State Tournament will be televised live in our area on WAOW Wausau, WXOW La Crosse, and WQOW Eau Claire.
Thursday, March 13
Division 3
#1 Elk Mound (26-1) vs. #4 Xavier (18-10) - 1:35 p.m.
#2 Oostburg (26-2) vs. #3 Laconia (24-4)*
*Note: Subsequent games of each session will begin approximately 15 minutes following the previous game.
ABOUT THE DIVISION 3 FIELD: Top-seeded Elk Mound will make its second appearance in the State Tournament and the first since 1988 when the Mounders fell in the Class C semifinals. This year, they defeated Baldwin-Woodville 54-48 to advance out of the Eau Claire North Sectional. The Mounders were the champions of the Dunn-St. Croix Conference this season. Second-seeded Oostburg returns to State for the 11th time overall and for the first time since 2012. That signaled an end to a run of six consecutive appearances from 2007-12. The Lady Dutch won the Class C championship in 1990 and Division 3 State championships in 1994 and 2008. Oostburg also advanced to the final in 2010 and 2012 and finished runner-up. This season, they are the champions of the South Division of the Big East Conference. The Lady Dutch earned their return to State with a 62-52 victory over Catholic Memorial in the Brown Deer Sectional final. Laconia, the two-time defending champion in Division 4, moves up a division this season. The Spartans are seeded third in the bracket. They are making their fifth appearance at State overall, all coming in the last seven seasons. In each of the three previous trips to the tourney, they have advanced to the championship game in Division 4. The Spartans finished runner-up in 2019 and in 2022. They advance to semifinals this season by defeating Edgerton 57-42 in the Evansville Sectional final. Laconia is the champion of the Flyway Conference this year. Xavier, last year’s runner-up, is the fourth seed in the bracket. The Hawks are appearing in their fourth State Tournament overall. The first two experiences came in succession in 2015 and 2016. Their most notable of the two appearances was the runner-up finish in 2015. The Hawks’ return to the semifinals this year as a result of a 63-45 win over Wittenberg-Birnamwood in the Seymour Sectional final. They finished third in the Bay Conference during the regular season this year. As a former member of WISAA, the Hawks won the title in 1978 when there was only one division of the tournament and were runners-up an additional nine times.
NEED RESULTS?: The quickest way to get results will be to access the WIAA website wiaawi.org and choose the Tournament Information link on the home page or the girls basketball home page.
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