Basketball - SDPB State Championship Coverage

The 2025 SDHSAA state girls' basketball tournaments wrapped up on Saturday, March 15, from Rapid City (AA), Spearfish (A), and Huron (B).

For the first time in nearly forty-years, Bennett County has won a state girls basketball title. The Warriors defeated Sanborn Central/Woonsocket 71-61 on Saturday night in Huron at the ‘B’ state tournament.

There are more than 180 high schools in South Dakota. We asked the Spearfish Spartans student section at the Class AA Tournament if they could name some of those high schools and their mascots.

The 2025 SDHSAA state girls basketball tournaments continued on Friday, March 14, with the consolation semifinals and championship semifinal rounds.

The Sioux Valley girls basketball team has a teddy bear on their bench during the state tournament this week. That bear is a symbol that honors one of their own.

Jo Auch has devoted over 40 years to the youth of South Dakota as a teacher, coach, athletic director, referee, administrator, and assistant executive director at the South Dakota High School Activities Association. She joins Craig Mattick on this edition of In Play.