South Dakota High School Basketball

During the off season is where high school players become college talent, this upcoming summer season is no different. Right now we have 2 upcoming juniors from madison that have already verbally committed to SDSU, playing for the Dakota Schoolers. South Dakota has Colton Iverson who has an offer on the table from SDSU playing for the heat.

Dakota Schoolers Gold: This year the Schoolers went with less known names all players except for the two from madison played prep ball in the AA ranks... This years schoolers team is probably the least name known in the history of the program though I believe that is a good thing. The schoolers can work together and become something and make college players out of these kids. Coach Mueller is a great coach and will have these kids working hard and I could see a mass improvement among the entire team.

Dakota Schoolers Blue: The Dakota Schooler Blue team returns a few players from a year ago. Matt Dykstra a kid I saw alot of last year will be one of those kids returning. Dykstra who played great as a center will probably play some 3 but mostly 4 he is a strong kid that could become a high college tallent if he grew 2 inches. Another notable joining the team would be David Maxwell, Maxwell played every position for the Trojans the past year from 1 to 5 very versatile will probably see most of his time at the 3 though.. The schoolers blue team features a lot of B or low A school kids this team could produce some great kids but also could produce some duds.

South Dakota Heat: The heat are ran by one of my favorite coaches in lance friesan, they have 4 big name kids. Colton Iverson 6-10 center from Yankton leads the way, has an offer on the table from SDSU and NDSU and if he plays successfully over the summer could prompt offers from big 10 and big 12 schools. Colton needs to continue to get stronger and if he can do that he will be a dominite force in the college ranks. As far as schools I heard SDSU has took the lead after they were snowed out from going to Fargo for the SDSU/NDSU and the fact that Tim Miles volted to CSU.. However CSU as well as others could over take them.. Next would be Cody Schilling Cody had an injury plagued summer last year and hopes to play injury free this summer. Cody has obtained offers from SDSU, NDSU and reportedly Nevada as well as others. If Cody has a good summer look for him to be playing at a big name/conference school. Next on the list would be Louie Krogman, everybody knows Louie the kid that put 50 up at state averaged 30.5 over the season, 2nd career points and soon to be 1st. Louie had an offer from SDSU but waited 2 long and SDSU pulled it in favor of the 07 and 09 class.. I have heard numerous rumors from Louie, I've heard he wants to go to SDSU and if it means walking on red-shirting and obtaining a scholarship later that could be a possibility. I've also heard JuCo, or possibly BHSU for a year then taking a look at his options. BHSU probably a stretch but Coach Marshall did play his collegiant ball as a YellowJacket... Last would be Jared Vlastuin, Jared impressed me more then any other player this year, he is 6-6ish 160pounds soking wet but played like he was 220... jumps higher and quicker then anybody I saw, out played Kyle Doerr at state when he gave up close to 50 pounds... Jared's as an offer from Augie right now but if he gains some weight and with the other 3 mentioned playing beside him this summer I wouldn't be surprised if Jared gets D-I attention, not every day do you get a kid that can jump above the box on the back board, and can go out and hit that 10 footer.

Others that are not playing ball this summer or that I don't know about... 2 main ones come to mind. Keith Cutler fromp Platte, from what I understood he had an offer from the schoolers as well as the heat but Keith is an athlete and a great baseball player, his dad played at sdsu and his dad coaches his teener team. Another is Jordan Boots Jordan last year played with the schoolers but is not this upcoming summer, I heard he wasn't well liked by quite a few players but I don't know why he isn't playing just speculating if I hear anything about it I will post it.