SD 2025 Rankings: Featured New Additions
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The updated South Dakota 2025 rankings are now live on the site! There’s a total of 180 prospects ranked. Here we’ll look at some of the featured new additions to the rankings board. There are some names to get excited…
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Continue ReadingThe updated South Dakota 2025 rankings are now live on the site! There’s a total of 180 prospects ranked. Here we’ll look at some of the featured new additions to the rankings board. There are some names to get excited about.
Mach highlights the rankings additions, coming in at #28 in his debut. An athletic freak that is a dunking machine and he’s put out some nice highlight dunks out there for everyone to see and enjoy. He has been seen posterizing others. He supplements his athleticism with 6’5 length from the wing. Not quite a refined prospect offensively yet, but he’ll be striving to improve that area with SD Identity in the 2024 offseason. He’ll be on the Prep Hoops Circuit, so we’ll be featuring him on the site.
Luke is the starting wing for Castlewood. Averaging 9 ppg. along with 4 apg. He’s a long 6’4 athletic-looking prospect. Glides up and down the court and is an easy jumper that can get up and dunk two-hands without a problem. Could be more assertive, as I think he defers to the studs around him. I think next year, if he changes his offensive approach, he could raise his stock quite a bit and become a next-level prospect. He has all the tools to do so.
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Noah is a nice addition to the rankings, as the leading scorer for Gregory at 16 ppg. A talented offensive player and scorer. He can score from all over, being a knockdown three-point shooter and a guy who can breakdown a defender off the drive and rise up and stroke it. Not a small guard either, with long arms at 6’1.
Moko is another solid addition, as he’s the starting big for the #2 rated team in AA, according to the SD Prep Media Poll. Moko brings a ton of toughness, energy, and is alert and ready for his assignment. Not a thin or fraile 6’5 prospect either, with a solid muscular build. He’s a big that likes to stay near the paint area mostly, but he’s also active setting ball-screens for the ball-handlers as well. After the ball-screen, he’ll roll to the hoop, looking for a post touch. Overall, he posts up hard, trying to score near the hoop, as he’s not a jump-shooter. Strives to protect the hoop, defensively. Moko’s best trait is that he doesn’t stop.
Tap comes off the bench for Harrisburg, where he’ll then provide absurd length at 6’6 with extremely long arms. Runs the court very well, picking up ground at a scary rate. Defensively, he can defend the 2-5 positions, showing good versatility in that aspect. He’s on a very good team in Harrisburg, so he hasn’t been fully unleashed, but hopefully next season we’ll see more of what he can do.