Pacesetter Youth Basketball Playoffs

2025 Pacesetter Youth Basketball Playoffs


Pacesetter Goals & Team Benefits
• Promote school/community TEAM basketball
• Support school programs and head coaches
• Provide exciting playoff system for school/community teams

2025 Minnesota Region Playoffs

Grades 4-7 • Boys & Girls
• 5-Star Playoffs – 5 regions
• MIB/Grand Rapids – Feb. 15-16
• Bemidji – Feb. 22-23
• Redwood Falls – March 8-9
• Waseca – March 8-9
• St. Cloud – March 15-16
• Limit of 16 teams
• 3-4 games in one day – played efficiently
• Team entry: $215
• Champions invited to State – Others invited to State MIT

Eligibility Guidelines:
  • All players on a team must either be enrolled in the same school system or live or attend school in the same city or the same tribal community. Smaller schools may combine to form one team if the combined high school enrollment for grades 9-12 is 400 or fewer. Schools that combine must be from neighboring schools.

All rosters must be submitted before teams will be placed in the tournament bracket. A copy of your roster also needs to be turned in at each tournament.

Every player must fill out an online player waiver form before their first tournament of the season in order to be eligible to participate.

2025 Pacesetter Minnesota State Championships

St. Cloud – March 29-30

Grades 8-9 • Boys & Girls
• Register directly for State – each grade/gender group in a separate MN state tournament bracket
• No limit on teams
• Team entry: $215
• 3-5 games
• 4-16 teams – 3-4 games – March 29
• 16+ teams – 4-5 games – March 29-30

Grades 4-7 • Boys & Girls
• State Championship – March 30
• Teams qualified in the 5-region playoffs
• 8-team bracket
• Team entry: $215 – 3 games

2025 Minnesota Invitational Tournament (MIT)

St. Cloud – March 29

Grades 4-7 • Boys & Girls
• The “Best of the Rest” state championship
• Teams not in championship may enter the State MIT
• Team entry: $215
• 3-4 games in one day – played efficiently

2025 Pacesetter Great Five-State Championships

Target Center • Minneapolis, MN – Lynx home game weekends

• Top teams from MN-WI-IA-ND-SD
• 8-team brackets
• Grades 4-9
• “Great State” invitations will be provided at qualifying sites