Minnesota AAU Basketball Team Ready for National Challenge
A talented local AAU boys basketball team is gearing up for their last three tournaments of the season, with the stated goal of winning a national championship.
The D1 Minnesota 17U team features six players who play their high school basketball here in the northwest suburbs.
All nine players on the roster have received Division 1 college basketball offers with four of them verbally committed.
D1 Minnesota will play in a Minnesota tournament this weekend before going later this month to South Carolina for the Adidas Nationals and finishing the summer at the Adidas Invitational in Los Angeles.
The local players on D1 Minnesota are Wayzata’s Nolen Anderson and Christian Wiggins, Dothan Ijadimbola of Totino-Grace, plus a trio of Maple Grove players- Baboucarr Ann, Max Iversen, and Jack Thelen.
The rest of the roster features Cedric Tomes, who’s committed to the University of Minnesota, Ryan Kreager, and Jaidyn Coon.
Ann and Thelen will be high school juniors this coming year while the other seven will be seniors.
The team’s record is 18-5 with losses coming to other nationally ranked teams.
Maple Grove Senior High School
Totino-Grace High School
Wayzata High School
