Prospect Rankings: Minnesota’s top 25 Senior SFs

Ryan James September 5, 2019 @ 04:15 PM

The 2020 fall high school basketball rankings update is right around the corner and today we project the small forwards who are seniors in Minnesota. 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 two 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 Small Forward Prospects in Minnesota</h2>   (1) Gabe Madsen of Rochester Mayo/Wisconsin Playground Warriors. Committed to Cincinnati. (2) J'Vonne Hadley of Cretin-Derham Hall/Howard Pulley. (3) Connor Christensen of Eden Prairie/D1 Minnesota. (4) Charlie Katona of Shakopee/Minnesota Fury. Committed to Minnesota-Duluth. (5) John Henry of Eden Prairie/Minnesota Fury. (6) Matthew Willert of Buffalo/Minnesota Comets. Committed to St. Cloud State. (7) Brady Williams of Dover-Eyota/Minnesota Fury. (8) DT Frierson of Park Center/Howard Pulley. (9) Blake Remme of Spring Lake Park/Gain Elite. (10) Reid Gastner of Lake City/Minnesota Comets. (11) Ryan Thissen of Eastview/Minnesota Select (12) Manny Montgomery of Bloomington Jefferson/RIP City. (13) Drew Hagen of Moorhead/ECI Prospects. Committed to Minnesota State Moorhead (14) Kaden Johnson of Minnehaha Academy/Grassroots Sizzle. (15) Nick Peterson of Benilde-St. Margaret's/Minnesota Comets. (16) Dylan DeChampeau of Greenway/Minnesota Matrix. (17) Amari Carter of Cretin-Derham Hall/Howard Pulley. (18) Jayden Bernard of Virginia/Minnesota Comets. (19) Carter Anderson of Centennial/Minnesota Matrix. (20) Drew White of St. Paul Washington (21) Armon Freeman of Duluth Denfeld/Northern Lakers. (22) Evan Wieker of STMA/Minnesota Comets DLR. (23) Sam Opsahl of Goodhue/WOTN. (24) Paul Meyer of Annandale/Comets JL. (25) Noah Frechette of Lakeville North/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.