Petersburg Basketball¶

History of North Dakota High School Basketball Tournament Structure¶

From 1914 to 1932 all North Dakota High School Activities Association member high schools played basketball under a single classification. Some small schools played in the State Tournament under that format and three of them won state titles: Tower City in 1915, Michigan in 1917, and Petersburg in 1919. In 1922, a number of schools from small towns organized the Consolidated League for the purpose of competing for a state championship with schools of similar enrollments. This league continued to operate through 1950. In 1933, the schools still competing under the sponsorship of the NDHSAA were divided up into Class A and Class B and, in 1948, the Class C division was created by the NDHSAA. The Consolidated League joined the Class C in 1950 and that combined organization remained in operation through 1963. At the present time all high school basketball teams compete in either Class B or Class A.