DETROIT LAKES — The 2023-24 Detroit Lakes boys basketball season was the best under fourth-year head coach Brett Maass and the first time the Lakers eclipsed 20 wins in nine seasons. Records were broken and career milestones were achieved in what felt like an every night occurrence. Detroit Lakes dominated its way to a 24-4 overall record , an undefeated 8-0 Mid-State Conference record and crowned the undisputed conference champions.
ADVERTISEMENT The season ended in a Section 8AAA quarterfinals loss to the section runner-up St. Cloud Tech . The squeaks of a fresh pair of kicks being dragged on the court filled The Hive during a scrimmage hosted by Perham on Saturday, Nov.
23. Maass expressed his team’s excitement for the upcoming journey following a long morning of four consecutive games. “They've been working hard every day at practice,” he said.
“You saw it here today in the scrimmage. We played really good team basketball offensively and defensively and moved the ball and guys are positive with each other. It's early but his kind of gave us a gauge of what we really need to work on and things that we need to get better.
We're excited, kids are excited, and the coaches are excited. We're just ready to play some games for sure.” Detroit Lakes was the only team out of the five to play all four sessions.
They had matchups against Morris Area, Moorhead, Perham and Hillcrest Lutheran. There were good plays and bad ones throughout the three hours. But the Lakers were.