The NHR Rankings Year by Year – The Biggest Misses
Today NHR looks back on past rankings to see who some of our biggest misses were in terms of our final list for each class. Marcus Tyus of Anoka. Tyus was far better at Omaha than I ever expected…
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Continue ReadingToday NHR looks back on past rankings to see who some of our biggest misses were in terms of our final list for each class.
- Marcus Tyus of Anoka. Tyus was far better at Omaha than I ever expected him to be. Tyus was a career double figure scorer in the Summit League with a senior season of 17 a game. He also shot 40 plus percent behind the arc for his career.
- Nuni Omot of Mahtomedi. This is actually more a product of myself failing to do a winter ranking update (or end of the season ranking update) because I was too wrapped up in coaching. When we ranked these 2013 rankings it was the summer before the senior year and Omot had only played seven varsity games scoring 13 total varsity points entering his senior season. Obviously had we updated the rankings when we should of he would have (after his senior year) Nuni would of been way higher. Because of this there is the Omot Rule which means update the senior rankings after the senior season. Nuni was very good at Concordia-St Paul and then very good at Baylor
- Geno Crandall of DeLaSalle. It was very clear that Geno was a D1 player when he scored 11 a game as a senior for the state champs but I wasn’t sure he was going to be Best in the League good or Gonzaga level back when we finished these rankings. Credit to his work ethic, and to his development.
- Joe Rosga of CDH. Some would say Marty Hill who really developed after high school, some would say Freddie Gillespie who overcome multiple knee injuries to eventually play at Baylor years later. To me those aren’t ranking misses as much as they are hard working kids who developed after high school. I will freely admit I never saw Joe Rosga being a career double figure scorer at Denver shooting 42.6 percent for his career at the arc and scoring 14.1 a game on average over four years.
- Xavier Johnson of Hopkins. Another reason we have the Omot Rule. Johnson and Vinnie Shahid had great senior seasons leading the Royals to a state title. Shahid was a top 20 ranked player (and would have been in the top 10 in the final ranking relating to his all state level senior season). When Johnson was playing at Hopkins I never expected him to be a full scholarship level talent which is why he was ranked very low. Johnson scored 15 this year at struggling Chicago State.
- Rocky Kreuser of Totino-Grace. NDSU earned another trophy for their ever expanding trophy case this year and a big part of that was the 10 points and six boards Kreuser gave his team this year. Rocky has had a better D1 career than 10 of the 12 guys we had ranked above him (the top six are having solid high major careers).
- Emmette Page of Osseo. This young man has never stopped improving. As an Osseo junior he scored six points a game and then improved to 23 a game as a senior. It was so impressive Page took people by surprise. He has never stopped improving averaging 22 a game as a junior college sophomore and signing at D1 Evansville for next season.
- Jack Thompson of St. Thomas Academy. It’s likely too early to tell but Jack’s ranking of 23 looks to be about 8-10 spots too low after Jack was a top freshman in the NSIC last year.