RPAC Rundown Featured Matchup Preview: Bertrand at Medicine Valley

On Friday, February 6th, 2026, the Bertrand Vikings will go to Curtis to play Medicine Valley in a girls and boys basketball double-header. Let's evaluate the matchups.

Medicine Valley Girls Basketball

• Record: 3-15

• Head Coach: Derek Bantam, 21 years of coaching at Medicine Valley

• The Raiders are averaging 28.6 points per game on offense. On Tuesday night, though, they scored 59 points in their win over Hi-Line.

• On defense, they are allowing teams to score an average of 56.2 points per game.

• Sophomore Oakley Stout leads the team in scoring at about 11 points per game, and she also averages about eight rebounds per game.

• As a team, the Raiders are averaging 32 rebounds per game.

• The Raiders are in the D2-9 Subdistrict, which includes Cambridge, Dundy County Stratton, Hitchcock County, and Wallace.

  
  
  
  
  

  

  

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Bertrand Girls Basketball

• Record: 6-14

• Head Coach: Trey Stutheit, third season as head coach at Bertrand.

• On offense, the Vikings are averaging 34.4 points per game.

• Defensively, Bertrand is allowing 48.8 points per game.

• For the Vikings, Addison Andersen leads the team in scoring, averaging about 13 points per game. She also leads the team in rebounding at about 7 per game.

• Junior Livia Philips scores about 7 points per game.

• Bertrand is in the D2-7 subdistrict with Franklin, Loomis, and Wilcox Hildreth.

Medicine Valley Boys Basketball

• Record: 11-7, won five of last seven.

• Head Coach: Jason Maier, 21 years of coaching, and nine years at Medicine Valley.

• The margin of victory on average for Medicine Valley is thin. They are averaging 52.7 points per game and allowing 50.8 points per game.

• They have had eight games decided by eight points or less.

• The Raiders have three players averaging at least 11 points per game: All juniors, Ethan Brown at 11.8 points per game, Lucas Einspahr at 13.2, and Mason Roblee at 15.2.

• Medicine Valley has five players averaging at least four rebounds per game.

• The Raiders are in the D2-8 subdistrict with Ansley-Litchfield, Brady, Sandhills/Thedford, and SEM.

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Bertrand Boys Basketball

• Record: 16-4, won 10 of their last 11.

• Head Coach: Marcus Schwarz, first season as the Head Coach, many years as an assistant on the staff.

• Bertrand is averaging 59.2 points per game.

• Bertrand is allowing 48.6 points per game.

• Senior Thunder Nelson leads the team in scoring at 21.1 points per game, and fellow senior Scottie Bieker averages 18.9 points and 11.6 rebounds.

• The Vikings do a solid job of rebounding, averaging just over 36 per game, with about 13 of those coming on offensive rebounds.

• Bertrand is in the D1-11 subdistrict with Arapahoe, Cambridge, Southern Valley, and Southwest.