We're in the midst of one of the NCAA's contact periods for basketball recruiting, when college coaches are most active in pursuing high school players. It's a time of year when commitments are made, as Eden Prairie's Tori Schlagel showed Tuesday when she tweeted that she will play in college for South Dakota State.
Let's take a look at college choices by Minnesota's top girls basketball players, presented as the 2023-24 Dream Team, five starters and 15 other contenders. It's not too early. Practice officially begins Nov. 13.
The top five in the Dream Team chosen by Star Tribune reporter Ron Haggstrom doesn't have a player taller than 6 feet, but three players are headed to prominent Division I programs, and two sophomores yet to make commitments are certain to do the same.
2023-24 Dream Team and their college plans
Maddyn Greenway, Providence Academy, 5-8 guard, sophomore
College: undecided. She is No. 16 on ESPN's HoopGurlz ranking of sophomores.
Alivia McGill, Hopkins, 5-7 guard, senior
College: Florida. She's ranked 16th in the nation's senior class on HoopGurlz.
Tori Oehrlein, Crosby-Ironton, 5-11 guard, sophomore.
College: undecided. The HoopGurlz list of sophomores stops at 25. She didn't make the cut.
Olivia Olson, Benilde-St. Margaret's, 6-0 guard, senior
College: Michigan. She's ranked 15th in the nation's senior class on HoopGurlz.
Jordan Zubich, Mountain Iron-Buhl, 5-11 guard, senior
College: North Carolina. She's ranked 68th in the senior class on HoopGurlz.
Rounding out the top 20
Ja'Kahla Craft, St. Michael Albertville, 5-9 guard, senior. College: Seton Hall
Aaliyah Crump, Minnetonka, 6-0 guard, junior. College: undecided
Laura Hauge, St. Croix Lutheran, 5-10 guard, senior. College: St. Thomas
Regan Juenemann, Duluth Marshall, 5-10 guard, junior. College: undecided
Jocelyn Land, Holy Family, 6-0 forward, senior. College: Butler
Addi Mack, Minnehaha Academy, 5-8 guard, junior. College: undecided
Kendall McGee, Benilde-St. Margaret's, 5-10 guard, junior. College: undecided
Tori McKinney, Minnetonka, 6-1 guard, senior. College: Minnesota
Morgan Miller, Andover, 6-2 forward, senior. College: Clemson
Jordan Ode, Maple Grove, 5-11 guard, junior. College: undecided
Finley Ohnstad, Lakeville South, 6-0 forward, senior. College: Kansas State
Alyssa Sand, Albany, 6-3 forward, senior. College: St. Thomas
Tori Schlagel, Eden Prairie, 5-9 G, junior. College: South Dakota
Samantha Wills, Visitation, 6-0 guard, junior. College: undecided
Trinity Wilson, Lakeville North, 6-3 forward, senior. College: Vanderbilt
