Prospect Rankings: Minnesota’s top 25 Senior PFs

Ryan James September 6, 2019 @ 11:41 AM

Today we project the senior power forward prospects in Minnesota. Newsflash, it's an extremely talented group of players, here is our top 25. At the bottom of this page you can see the Prep Hoops explanation of our rankings as of course prospect rankings are different than a straight player ranking of who is currently a more productive high school player. In addition to what's below there are a few important points I think that need to be made with this week's position rankings: ONE. Basketball has become multi-positional of course with players competing inside and out at a number of positions. That said, college coaches, high school coaches, and the spring/summer coaches still use the terms "Point", "the one", "at the two", "at the four", and "he's a the five" commonly. The difference today is that your position has become more about what you can guard defensively as compared to what a player can do offensively. If a prospect is playing shooting guard on offense at 5-foot-10 but then goes the other way and guards the point guard, college coaches at the higher levels are going to consider that player as the lead guard (and that ultimately can lead to why players may not play at the level they think they should in college). TWO. This week's position rankings will consist of all five positions, and no player will be in two different rankings. Yes Jalen Suggs could be listed as the number one player at point guard and at shooting guard but we are listing him as a two in these rankings. That same thing can be said about many players. THREE. If you feel like somebody should be here and isn't, my email is ryan@prephoops.com and my DMs are already open. Chance could be I forgot a player or two (my deeper research will hit with the new top 250 in later September) or I thought of them as a different position. <h2> </h2> <h2>The 25 2020 Power Forward Prospects in Minnesota</h2>   (1) Dawson Garcia of Prior Lake/D1 Minnesota. (2) Dain Dainja of Park Center/Howard Pulley. Committed to Baylor. (3) Ben Carlson of East Ridge/D1 Minnesota. (4) Austin Andrews of Eden Prairie/D1 Minnesota. Committed to Minnesota-Duluth. (5) John Grisgsby of Park Center/Colorado Roughriders (6) Cooper Olson of Champlin Park/Minnesota Comets. (7) John Sutherland of Grand Rapids/Northern Lakers. (8) Cameron Steele of Minnetonka/Minnesota Fury. (9) Wyatt Olson of St. Peter/MN Rise (10) Tate Machacek of Eastview/Minnesota Matrix (11) Lincoln Meister of Rochester JM. (12) Odier Olange of St. Cloud Tech/Gain Elite. (13) Noah Puetz of Marshall/Minnesota Comets. (14) Pouch Duboul of St. Cloud Apollo/Inspired Athletics. (15) Connor Schwob of Waconia/WOTN. (16) Jordan Merseth of Mankato East/MN Rise. (17) Colin Meade of Rochester Lourdes/WOTN. (18) Wyatt Schroeder of St. Francis/Grassroots Sizzle. Committed to Minnesota Football (19) Luke Schwartzhoff of La Crescent/Minnesota Lightning. (20) Matthew Banovetz of Holy Angles/Minnesota Comets DLR. (21) Hezekiah Iyawe of Robbinsdale Armstrong/Minnesota Heat. (22) Mason Klett of Apple Valley/Minnesota Select Brown. (23) Will Burke of Cretin-Derham Hall. (24) Owen Davis of Brainerd/Minnesota Matrix. (25) Jack Clipper of Cretin-Derham Hall/Minnesota Select Koch.   <h5 class="text-center font-weight-bold mt-2 mb-3">About Our Rankings</h5> Prep Hoops prospect rankings have been compiled by our staff with input from high school, club and college coaches from across the state. Players are ranked on their status as a college prospect. We aim to expand and update our prospects rankings 2-4 times per year to continue to maintain the most comprehensive, accurate prospect rankings in the country.