The WDA: By the Numbers
Bismarck After going 17-5 they were outscored by 18 points in both of their final games of the season. Connor Hellebust shot 82 percent form the flour line and 37 percent at the arc. Very good totals. The Demons made…
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- After going 17-5 they were outscored by 18 points in both of their final games of the season.
- Connor Hellebust shot 82 percent form the flour line and 37 percent at the arc. Very good totals.
- The Demons made 77 more free throws than their opponents, an average of about three per game
- Won the rebound battle 34 to 30 on average
- Seth Siverson is a 5-foot-10 guard and he had the second highest rebounding total on the team a year ago (82).
Bismarck Century
- Best defensive team in Class A a year ago giving up only 49.2 points per contest
- Three of their four losses came to Minot and two of those losses were by a combined three points.
- Returning FG percentage numbers are very impressive: Adam Geiger 49%, Luke Leingang 55%, Dalton Feeney 48%
- Andrew Holen is a weapon at the atc. He shot 47 percent from the arc a year ago
- Holen is the only Century player returning who have a better than two to one assist to turnover ratio
Dickinson
- Opened the season with a nine game losing streak and then won five of six to somewhat turn tings around. Lost seven of nine on the road
- Aanen Moody shot better at the arc (44 percent) than he did from the field (38 percent).
- Out of a possible 120 starts a year ago, there are only 24 back and 18 of them belong to Moody.
- The other six belong to near seven footer Jordan Meidinger who averaged a rebound every four minutes. At that pace he would get eight per 32 minutes played a year ago as a sophomore.
- The Midgets shot only 40 percent as a team for the season.
Jamestown
- Gave up nearly 68 points per game which was the worst in the WDA
- Played five games against Century and Minot last year and lost those games by a combined total of 177 points
- Noah Wanzek started every game and fellow senior Logan Anderson started all but one game. Nolan Love started one, and Tanner Lunzman started four, they are also seniors.
- Jamestown shot an ugly 29 percent from the arc a year ago
- Wanzek averaged 16 points and seven rebounds a game shooting a healthy 58 percent from the floor and 72 percent form the foul line.
Mandan
- Didn’t win a road game all season. Lost their first 14 games of the year.
- As a freshman Trae Steckler scored 10 points a game shooting 59 percent from the field and 67 percent from the foul line
- 45 of the 94 shots last year taken by Cameron Steckler were from the three-point atc
- Senior Jeremy Friesz averaged 9.2 points per a game and will be a nice second option as a senior
- Everybody that made 30 plus percent of their treys has graduated.
Minot
- Highest scoring team in Class A last year at 73.9 points per game
- Beat Century three of four times including the state championship game. Only loss of the season was 64-58 and it came in the second to last game of the season
- Minot shot 46 percent as a team while their opponents only 38 percent. They also won the rebounding battle 38 to 29 on average
- They scored 21 points a night off turnovers created while opponents had just eight a game. Opponents turned the ball over 431 times to their 280.
- Braylon Lund scored 11.4 points per game and was eight boards a way from averaging a double-double for the season.
St. Mary’s
- Lowest offensive output per game a year ago in the WDA at 48.7 points per contest
- Had a respectable 5-8 record at one point and then lost eight of their last nine games seven of those nine losses were by double figures.
- Now senior Nathan Schumacher shot 41 percent at the arc last year, nobody else on the team was even in the 30s much less the 40th plus percentile
- Nobody on the team had more assists than turnovers. That’s not good.
- Casey Uhler is both the top scorer and rebounder returning .
Turtle Mountain
- Gave up nearly 68 points per game which was tied for the worst in the WDA. They countered that by having the third best offense points wise.
- 66 points was their magic number. When the Braves reached 66 they were 12-1. When they reached 65 or lower, they were 2-11.
- The Braves had three guys shoot 40 plus percent from the arc last year but only Landyn Keplin and his 42 percent three-point shooting returns.
- The top five rebounders on the team graduated. Only Keplin and his 2.5 rebounds return from the leaders
- Keplin averaged 15.9 points per game last season.
Williston
- Lost all of their road games. 0-11 for the season.
- Williston averaged 53.4 points per game and 23 points of that night per night came from then freshman De’Sean Allen-Eikens. The other nine guys that played regularly in the rotation averaged 30 points per game. Or about 3.3 per person.
- De’Sean took 421 shots last season which was 251 more than Joren Falcon who took the second highest.
- The only guy on the team to shoot above 40 percent from the field for the year was De’Sean. You do not want to know what the field goal percentage of the rest of the team was combined. Let’s just say they failed to make a third of their attempts.
- Williston actually out-rebounded their opponents for the season by ten overall.