The Hopkins Boys Basketball team started out the 2019-20 season in an underwhelming fashion. Starting out the season with a 1-2 record was something that most people didn’t anticipate.
The Hopkins Park girls hockey season came to a close the way that many did not want it to, with a 9-0 loss in the first round of sections play against the Blake Bears on Saturday, Feb. 8.
With sections rapidly approaching and a seismic showdown against Eden Prairie coming up this week, the Hopkins Royals boys basketball team (16-4, 6-1 Lake Conference) continued to build momentum after a rocky start to the calendar year this past weekend.
Not many players have impacted the game of basketball the same way Kobe Bryant did. The way he changed the game on and off the court will be remembered forever.
Being a state champion, a McDonald’s All-American, USAB Female Athlete of the Year, and a commit to UConn all in Paige Bueckers’, senior, trophy case, she will add appearing on the cover of SLAM magazine.
In what looks like a mundane storage room beside the cardio room most students remember for the 10th grade heart monitor tests, sits a veritable shrine to the greats who have donned and will don the blue and white of Hopkins girls basketball.
After falling to the number one team in the state, Eden Prairie, the Hopkins Royals boys basketball team is currently on a three game win streak.After falling to the number one team in the state, Eden Prairie, the Hopkins Royals boys basketball team is currently on a three game win streak.
As the basketball season nears the halfway mark, the elite teams begin to separate themselves from the rest. For Hopkins, they seem to be stuck in the middle.
1904 was the last time the Minnesota Gophers football team won 11 games in a single season. They did it again in 2019 with their victory in the Outback Bowl versus the Auburn Tigers. This historic season came during just the third year of the P.J. Fleck era.