4 seed Eudora 55-35 in the first semifinal on Friday. Hugoton (22-2), who made the jump to class 4A this season after previously being in class 3A, defeated No. 1 seed Hugoton awaits the Bullpups in Saturday’s championship game. Four o’clock game tomorrow but I’ll tell you what, that beats the heck out of playing at noon tomorrow.”Īlthough McPherson may have leaped the highest hurdle in the tournament Friday night, No. “There’s so many things running through my head right now,” Kinnamon said. McPherson ended the third quarter up 40-35 before going on to close out the six-point win in the final eight minutes. Kanitz reached double figures off an inbound pass for a layup in the third quarter, which was followed shortly after with a second triple of the quarter by Cory Muehler (eight points) to make it a 40-33 game. “With how good defensively they are, if I can just draw two of them and get a man open, it just makes it that much easier on offense,” Kanitz said on his offensive mindset going into the game, as he also dished out seven assists in the game. Miege answered the McPherson run with an 8-2 run of their own to cut the lead to 22-18 with two minutes and twenty-nine seconds left before half, but another 5-0 run by McPherson extended the lead back to nine as an and-one layup by Kreighton Kanitz (12 points) helped the Bullpups take a 27-20 lead into the locker room. The 10-0 run was capped off by a four-point play by Gabe Pyle after getting fouled on a three-point shot. McPherson’s lead reached as many as 10 points in the first half when the Bullpups used a 10-0 run to open the second quarter. Thompson went 10-12 from the line with 16 points for the Bullpups.
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“We prepared for that in practice a lot.” Kyden Thompson gets ready to shoot a free throw Friday night. “I missed a few at the start, but we’re usually good at clutch free throws at the end,” Thompson said on being able to put the game away at the line late. The Stags refused to go away as two late three-pointers and several layups kept the game within reach, but McPherson countered each haymaker thrown by Miege by going 12-12 at the free throw line in the final two minutes of play.Ī triple by Miege made it a 56-54 game with 21.4 seconds remaining, but those would be the last points added to the Stags’ total as junior point guard Kyden Thompson (16 points) closed the game with four straight free throws to seal the 60-54 win. Miege would get as close as one point with just over three minutes to play at 45-44, but a Gabe Pyle three-ball pushed the lead back to four to keep the Stags at arm’s length
“If we had let it get tied, it may have been that much tougher. “I think that was a huge key,” Kinnamon said on his team never letting Miege tie the game or take the lead after the first quarter. In Friday night’s edition of the McPherson versus Miege rivalry, the Bullpups would lead for the final 24 minutes after being tied at 10-all through the first quarter.
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McPherson’s latest crack at Miege before Friday’s matchup was in the 2021 state semifinals, where Miege downed the Bullpups 78-51. That 2015 state tournament matchup with Miege was the first of four straight state tournament showdowns with the Stags, but McPherson would lose the next three as all three losses came in the state championship game. The last time McPherson took down Miege was a 79-68 win in the 2015 4A state semifinals, which was also the last year that the Bullpups won their latest state title. That’s a really good basketball team and we withstood everything that they had. I’m just extremely proud of those guys and how hard they played,” McPherson head boys basketball coach Kinnamon said after McPherson’s first win over Miege since 2015. “When guys invest, when guys compete and guys have success, that chokes me up. However, 13-time state champion McPherson dethroned the vaunted Stags Friday evening with a 60-54 win that sent the Bullpups to their 27 th all-time state championship game and their first since 2018. Five of those seven titles have come in the last seven years (2016, 2017, 2018, 20), which has drawn much attention, both good and bad, to the Stags’ program. Since 2001, the Bishop Miege boys basketball team has had a strangling hold on the class 4A and 5A state tournaments as they have accumulated seven state titles in a 21-year span. 6 seed Bishop Miege 60-54 in the state semifinals Friday evening in a raucous environment. By Joel Kansas – For the first time since 2019, the class 4A boys state basketball tournament will have a new team hoisting the championship trophy as No.
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