Best of the Best This Past Week
PHD recaps some of the news from this past week around the Dakotas.
This past week we read about Connor LeBrun’s childhood growing up with his older brother Dylan LeBrun and how special it was for him to play with him for four years in high school. Read the story here.
We also finished up our Five Facts series and reviewed it for anyone that missed any of the previous articles. If you missed any of them and didn’t get a chance to see the review article you can read the story here.
This past week we started to wrap up the AAU season with breakdowns from each age group 17u Wrap Up.
Also 17u All Dakotas Team was released last week
Some of the more bigger news from player recruiting is two Tea Area seniors both received D1 offers along with Kade Stearns receiving an offer from Mount Marty. Justin Hohn recently received an offer to play at UC Irvine in California while Noah Freidel received an offer from Wright State who is coached by former SDSU head coach Scott Nagy.
https://twitter.com/justin_hohn5/status/1025509616296370176
Blessed to announce I have received a D1 offer from Wright State University🏀 #goraiders pic.twitter.com/aVZuJoSVwZ
— Noah Freidel (@Noah_Freidel) August 3, 2018
I am blessed and humbled to receive my first official offer from Mount Marty College🏀 #TGBTG✝️ pic.twitter.com/D7rFDL9h0g
— Kade Stearns (@Kade_Stearns) August 7, 2018
6-7 Brandon Valley 2020 forward Gavin Terhark was offered a scholarship earlier this week by Sioux Falls after a camp at the school. USF has also offered Hohn a scholarship as well earlier this summer.
2019 Forward Dalton Albrecht from Grafton was offered by Jamestown after their Elite Camp last Saturday while Jamestown also offered 2019 PG Trey Wiest of Mandan a scholarship as well.
Andrew Bergan a 6’7 2020 prospect has received an offer from Missouri Western State University.
https://twitter.com/BerganAndrew/status/1021128657694351365
Other 17U Pentagon Schoolers to receive offers; Quincy Ihnen a 6’0 2019 guard from Lennox received an offer from Mount Marty, Trevin Holland a 6’5 2019 prospect from DeSmet has been offered from Mount Marty, Dakota Wesleyan, and Dakota State.
I am proud and excited to receive an offer from @MountMartyHoops to continue my academic and athletic careers! pic.twitter.com/FYaaGbbIsA
— Trevin Holland (@holland_trevin) June 28, 2018
The Prep Hoops Top 250 Expo is coming to Elmen Center at Augustana on September 30th. There will be numerous college coaches there for players to show out in front of. Register here and if you put ‘christensen’ or ‘james’ in you’ll get a discounted price!
SD Venom and Rapid City Stevens 2019 guard Dawson Paulsen also received an offer from Dakota State this past week to play college ball.
Yankton superstar Matthew Mors has had a busy offseason with the SD Attack and numerous college skills camps. He shined out in Wisconsin’s advanced camp and is drawing serious interest from the Badgers. He has received offers so far from Creighton, Iowa, Nebraska, SDSU, USD, and TCU. He has gained interest from Colorado, Missouri, Oregon State, and Purdue.
Follow along on Twitter @PrepHoopsDakota and Facebook at /PrepHoopsDakota for the latest news about players from the Dakotas.