Thursday Sports Schedule: College, Pro, and Local Tournament Games

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Prep volleyball tournaments and various collegiate and professional matchups are scheduled for Thursday, November 11.

The schedule features a dense concentration of postseason volleyball action across Minnesota and North Dakota alongside a high-stakes night of NCAA and professional basketball.

In the Class AA division, the No. 1 seeded New Life Academy is scheduled to face No. 8 EGF Senior High at 1 p.m.

Other Class AA quarterfinal contests include:

  • No. 4 New London-Spicer vs. No. 5 Dover-Eyota at 1 p.m.
  • No. 2 Southwest Christian vs. No. 7 Watertown-Mayer at 3 p.m.
  • No. 3 Minnewaska Area vs. No. 6 Rush City at 3 p.m.

The Class A tournament is also underway in St. Paul. The No. 4 EGF Sacred Heart will take on the No. 5 Chisholm squad at 5 p.m., while the No. 1 Minneota will face No. 8 Pine River-Backus during the same time slot.

Further evening matches in Class A include No. 2 Filmore Central against No. 7 Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s at 7 p.m., followed by No. 3 Mayer Lutheran facing No. 6 Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa at 7 p.m.

North Dakota's volleyball schedule includes championship games at the Fargodome. The Division A championship will be followed 20 minutes later by a matchup between No. 1 New Rockford-Sheyenne and No. 2 LaMoure-L-M.

Other regional matchups include a 9:10 a.m. championship game between No. 4 Langdon Area-Munich and No. 2 Harvey/Wells County. Kindred will play Central Cass on Friday approximately 20 minutes after the 9-man championship concludes.

In other local venues, the tournament structure continues at several high school sites. At Park River, matches are scheduled for Thursday, including a third-place game between Benson County and Hatton-Northwood, followed by the championship between Langdon Area-Munich and North Star.

Basketball games will take place across multiple levels of competition. In women’s college basketball, UConn travels to face Ohio State at 5:30 p.m. on FS1, while South Carolina takes on Clemson at 6 p.m. on ESPN2.

The evening concludes with two Big Ten matchups on BTN: Northern Iowa visits Iowa at 7:30 p.m., and Arizona plays at UCLA at 9:30 p.m.

Professional and men’s collegiate games include:

Event Matchup Time Network
NCAA Men Tennessee Tech at Indiana 5:30 p.m. BTN
NBA Dallas at Minnesota 7 p.m. NBA TV
NFL Washington at N.Y. Giants 7:15 p.m. Prime Video
NCAA Men Memphis at South Florida 7 p.m. ESPN

In the NHL, the Minnesota Wild are scheduled to play Toronto at 6 p.m.

The golf schedule features the LPGA Tour’s The ANNIKA starting at 10 a.m., while the PGA Tour Champions’ Charles Schwab Cup Championship begins at 4 p.m.

The women’s basketball game between Northern Iowa and Iowa begins at 7:30 p.m. on BTN.

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