The Big Dakota Preview

<p>Big Dakota Conference Basketball will excite this winter with Chamberlain bringing back a load of talent but others battling heavily. </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Conference Commentary</strong></p> <p>Chamberlain - Cubs return their top players from a team that finished .500 a season ago. Won four of their last six las year.</p> <p>Cheyenne-Eagle Butte - Three games above .500 last season but the Braves lost four starters so there will be a learning curve breaking in new talent. </p> <p>Crow Creek - Only two players return from the rotation of last year’s 21-2 team.  [player_tooltip player_id="975559" first="Trevin" last="McBride"] will be a top player but the rest of the rotation/team will be inexperienced leading to some uncertainty.</p> <p>McLaughlin - They improved a lot as the year moved on and return two of their top players (Sims and Defender).</p> <p>Miller - Winless last season, still in a rebuild.  Young talent like Spencer Fernholz were allowed to grow and they will, but more time is needed before consistently competitive. </p> <p>Mobridge-Pollock - Three starters must be replaced but this 16-8 team from last year has two sets of twins that should push them back to a similar spot. </p> <p>Stanley County - With two of their best players back the Buffs should become a double figure win team. </p> <p>Todd County - Losing six of their top seven to graduation will be very tough when the Falcons try and match last year’s success.  </p> <p>Winner - [player_tooltip player_id="975500" first="Brady" last="Fritz"] returns, but little else does for Winner’s 16-win club.  Brady will keep them in contention of course but with five key pieces needing to be replaced it will be interesting to see how potent they are again. </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Big Dakota Predictions</strong></p> <ol> <li>Chamberlain </li> <li>Winner</li> <li>Crow Creek</li> <li>Mobridge-Pollock</li> <li>McLaughlin</li> <li>Stanley County</li> <li>Todd County</li> <li>Cheyenne-Eagle Butte</li> <li>Miller</li> </ol> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Big Dakota Preseason All Conference</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em>First Team</em></p> <p>[player_tooltip player_id="975500" first="Brady" last="Fritz"] of Winner (Sr)</p> <p>Dreyton Priebe of Chamberlain (Sr)</p> <p>[player_tooltip player_id="968152" first="Keshaume" last="Thigh"] of Chamberlain (Jr)</p> <p>[player_tooltip player_id="975559" first="Trevin" last="McBride"] of Crow Creek (Sr)</p> <p>[player_tooltip player_id="968202" first="Lathan" last="Prince"] of Stanley County (Jr)</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em>Second Team</em></p> <p>[player_tooltip player_id="975620" first="Bryston" last="Goehring"] of Mobridge-Pollock (Sr)</p> <p>[player_tooltip player_id="975607" first="Ashaun" last="Roach-Valandra"] of Todd County (Sr)</p> <p>[player_tooltip player_id="975591" first="Spencer" last="Moran"] of Cheyenne-Eagle Butte (Sr)</p> <p>Spencer Fernholz of Miller (Soph)</p> <p>[player_tooltip player_id="963824" first="Blake" last="Volmer"] of Winner (Soph)</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em>Third Team</em></p> <p>Braden Goehring of Mobridge-Pollock (Sr)</p> <p>Israel Defender of McLaughlin (Sr)</p> <p>[player_tooltip player_id="975571" first="Cameron" last="Caldwell"] of Chamberlain (Sr)</p> <p>Nathan Cook of Stanley County (Sr)</p> <p>[player_tooltip player_id="963771" first="Elias" last="Sims"] of McLaughlin (Soph)</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em>Fourth Team</em></p> <p>Gavin Reinert of Mobridge-Pollock (Sr)</p> <p>Brailey Lecompte of Crow Creek (Jr)</p> <p>Slade Counter of Todd County (Jr)</p> <p>Zane Reinert of Mobridge-Pollock (Sr)</p> <p>Evan Farmer of Winner (Sr)</p>