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By Jim Scott
Mar 3, 2021 12:41 AM
(WNFL/WIAA) â This is the final weekend of the boys basketball season concluding with the WIAA boys state basketball tournament.
Like the girls tournament, it is being split between Oshkosh and La Crosse.
Hereâs a look at the Division 5 field which kicks things off on Thursday.
TOURNAMENT HISTORY: The first WIAA State Boys Basketball Tournament was held in 1916. The Kohl Center has hosted the championships 22 years since moving from the UW Field House in 1998. The tournament featured a one-class format until 1934 when, for two years (1934-35), there were two classes. From 1936 until 1939, the tournament increased to three classes, and then returned to the one class format in 1940. A one-class tourney prevailed until 1972 when it again became a two-class event. The tourney went to three classes again in 1974 and remained that way until a four-division format was adopted in 1991. The 2011 State Tournament introduced the f