Brookfield Academy's Huff gives verbal commitment to play at Division I North Dakota
posted by Mark Miller at 9/13/2009
By Mark Miller
Wishoops.net Editor Brookfield Academy senior guard Troy Huff took an official visit to the University of North Dakota over the weekend and opted to give a verbal commitment to play collegiate basketball for the Fighting Sioux.
Ranked No. 15 among Wisconsin high school players in the class of 2010 by Wishoops.net, Huff is an athletic and quickly emerging 6-foot-4 combination guard who turned in a strong spring and summer while competing for the Playground Elite grassroots program.
In addition to the offer from North Dakota, Huff had NCAA Division I scholarship offers from Montana and North Dakota State.
“During my visit, I just felt this was the place for me," Huss said. "This is a program that is building for the future, and I feel I can contribute and be a big part of the growth in the program."
Huff said he is relieved to have his collegiate decision behind him and plans to spend the rest of the fall lifting weights and focusing on his academics. He plans to study pre-law at North Dakota.
"It's a big relief to have the decision behind me," Huff said. "I will focus on my academics and getting stronger by getting in the weight room. I am looking forward to my senior season. We have a lot of guys back and we've been together for a long time. It should be an exciting year."
Huff averaged 16.2 points per game as a junior at Brookfield Academy, helping a very young Blue Knights squad to a 10-12 record. He earned second-team all-league honors in the Southern Division of the Midwest Classic Conference and figures to be a marked man in the league in 2009-10.
As a sophomore, Huff averaged 17.1 ppg as a sophomore for the Midwest Classic Conference school.
“Troy played one league game for us this summer and he was the difference maker in that game,” Brookfield Academy coach Dave Von Rueden said. “He showed a maturity level that I think is the ingredient he needs to lead him on the road to success.”
Able to score from the perimeter or get by defenders off the dribble and finish at the rim, Huff was a key player for coach Duane (Ike) Wilson and the Playground Elite on the travel circuit last spring and summer.
“Troy played really well for us all summer,” Wilson said. “He shot the ball well and got to the hole and finished. He had a two-handed tomahawk jam down the middle of the lane in our tournament in Kansas City.”
Huff joins a North Dakota program that recently joined the Division I ranks and competes in the newly formed Great West Conference.
Former Milwaukee Rufus King standout Jimmie Foster, who spent the past two years as an assistant coach at Kirkwood Community College in Iowa, is a first-year assistant coach in the North Dakota program under head coach Brian Jones.
Huff is the sixth player from the state’s class of 2010 to give a verbal commitment to play at a Division I school. He joins Eau Claire North’s Evan Anderson (Wisconsin), Sussex Hamilton’s Kameron Cerroni (Green Bay), Cedarburg’s Chip Rank (Northern Iowa), Catholic Memorial’s T.J. Bray (Princeton) and Cuba City’s Evan Richard (Milwaukee).
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