March Madness will be elevated to a new level today and tonight as the WIAA Girls State Basketball Tournament gets underway in Ashwaubenon along with the Sectional level of the Boys Tournament.
There are 4-Girls semifinal games at the Resch Center with the nightcap pitting (21-&-4) Manitowoc Lutheran against unbeaten (26-&-oh) Melrose-Mindoro in division-4. Tipoff time is scheduled for 8:15 & you can hear the Lancers play-by-play broadcast with Tim & Brad on 980-WCUB & cubradio.com. Airtime is set for 7:55.
A pair of division-3’ games will open the State Tournament at 1:35 this afternoon. Meanwhile, in local & area Boys Sectional tournament matchups: Roncalli faces Howards Grove in a Division-4 contest at Kaukauna. The Jets defeated the Tigers by 11, during the regular season. The winner advances to play the Destiny/Prairie School survivor. Pre-Game coverage starts at 6:40-on WOMT & womtradio.com.
Valders & Southern Door collide in a D-‘3 battle at Ashwaubenon High School. The winner gets either Xavier or Wrightstown. Airtime will be 6:40 on WQTC-102.3 and Live streaming on wqtcfm.com.
There’s a Division-1 Sectional game to be played in Manitowoc at Lincoln’s JFK Fieldhouse featuring Bay Port & Sussex Hamilton.
In Division-2: Pulaski tries to slow-down a high powered Kaukauna team at Green Bay Preble tonight. And, Sheboygan Area Lutheran meets Lourdes Academy in a D-‘5 sectional semifinal at Hartford.