Audi Crooks commits to Iowa State
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No doubt that she was a beast and had a lot of muscle. She also had a lot of extra weight that she could throw around.
She already has a D1 scholarship, she doesn't have to prove anything to anyone till she goes to college.
I don't think Iowa HS basketball, no matter the class, is going to prepare Audi for Big 12 basketball as a 6'3" center. Hopefully AAU provides some competition against D1 centers, but a lot of her development has to come outside of games. I think it is a very different situation for a center than a guard.
She'll certainly see some competition here: https://www.usab.com/news-events/news/2022/05/2022-wu18-trials-roster.aspx
I think it's taught her how to avoid contact playing against much smaller players. Learning how to deal with contact will be trial by fire.
Those college tape measures always seem to be starting at 1-2 inches rather than 0.
I'm not really sure what you're talking about with all the abbreviations you used, but what I gather is you think the Minnesota competition is better than the Iowa competition in girls basketball. If that were the case, why is it that Iowa teams win so many of these AAU age tournaments during the summer? I apologize if that's not what you were talking about, but it's kind of hard (for me) to decipher.
Twin cities AAU smokes Iowa AAU stuff outside of all Iowa attack for girls basketball. Daughter was involved at both areas and it’s not even close. Even with all Iowa attack, the elite team it the top side, the rest would struggle up there mightily.
You do understand that recruits do leave the state don’t you?
Not very familiar with WBB recruiting but it seems on the men's side the Gophers have done a poor job of protecting their backyard for a while now.
You can also be a really good AAU player without being a d1 player. Same thing happens in baseball, a whole bunch of teams made up of smaller college prospects and a few studs mixed in.
When Minnesota picked up Katie Borowicz in 2021, she was the first ESPN top-100 recruit from Minnesota to stay in-state in 10 years.
State of Minnesota players in ESPN top 100:
(Rank, Name, Score/100, Committed School)
2023:
40 Sunaja Agara 94 Stanford
53 Taylor Woodson 94 Michigan
70 Kennedy Sanders 93 Colorado
2022:
9 Maya Nnaji 97 Arizona
28 Mara Braun 95 Minnesota
39 Amaya Battle 95 Minnesota
55 Mallory Heyer 94 Minnesota
90 Savannah White 91 Wisconsin
2021:
42 Jenna Johnson 93 Utah
49 Kendall Coley 93 Nebraska
53 Adalia McKenzie 92 Illinois
64 Sophia Hart 91 NC State
98 Katie Borowicz 91 Minnesota
2020:
1 Paige Bueckers 98 UConn
2019:
(none)
2018:
(none)
2017:
59 Rachel Ranke 95 Kansas State
2016:
39 Jamie Ruden 97 Arizona State
44 Taylor Koenen 96 North Carolina
66 Abi Scheid 95 Northwestern
71 Nia Hollie 95 Michigan State
2015:
83 Madison Guebert 94 South Dakota State
2014:
80 Chase Coley 94 Iowa
84 Cayla McMorris 94 Wisconsin
94 Tia Elbert 92 Marquette
2013:
16 Rebekah Dahlman 96 Vanderbilt
24 Nia Coffey 95 Northwestern
74 Jessica January 93 DePaul
2012:
(none)
2011:
19 Rachel Banham 95 Minnesota
74 Kayla Hirt 93 Minnesota
86 Apiew Ojulu 92 Marquette
2010:
16 Suriya McGuire 95 Miami (FL)
81 Megan Waytashek 93 South Dakota State
2009:
12 Tayler Hill 96 Ohio State
74 Katie Loberg 93 Minnesota
94 Theairra Taylor 92 Iowa
Seanna was well known in the AAU circuit though. I remember being in a school and all the hub bub was about this girl who had several offers and ISU was one. I remember her doing well there.
