Brandon Veale column: UMD's 2023 NCAA run echoes in the present

Brandon Veale column: UMD's 2023 NCAA run echoes in the present

While writing a brief summation of the pairings for the Minnesota state girls basketball tournament earlier this month, I tried to tease out a few interesting details. Everyone loves a fun fact, after all. Even after a decade living here, my handle on rural Minnesota geography is shaky, but when I saw Duluth Marshall was drawn against Sauk Centre, I immediately remembered: That’s the Mainstreeters. As an alumnus of probably the only school in th…