COLLEGE OF ST. BENEDICT – ST. JOSEPH, MN / AUGUST 3-4
Pacesetter “Sweet Sixteen” Championship – “The Best of the Best!”
Pacesetter has been conducting the Pacesetter “Sweet Sixteen” Championship since 1991. This high-profile tournament places the strongest four Minnesota teams from each class – as projected for the next school year – into one 16-team bracket with a team from each class placed into each grouping of four teams. Teams then play two full games each day (9-min. stopped time quarters) for the overall championship and bragging rights as the best summer varsity team in Minnesota. Many Sweet Sixteen champions have gone on to win high school state championships the following March.
In 2023, the Delano boys and Minnetonka girls took home Sweet Sixteen Championships.
Sweet Sixteen invitations are traditionally extended within two weeks of the Minnesota high school state championships.
The Pacesetter Sweet Sixteen tournament is open to the public and played on four courts at Clemens Fieldhouse at St. Ben’s in St. Joseph.
