MITCHELL — The following players have been selected to the South Dakota Basketball Coaches Association’s all-state teams for boys basketball in 2024-25.

The players are selected to the teams based on votes of the coaches in their respective classes. The top vote-getter in each class as voted upon by the coaches is the SDBBCA’s player of the year and is indicated with an asterisk:

CLASS AA

First team
*Markus Talley, Mitchell, 6-1, sr. (17.9 ppg, 4.6 rpg, 3.0 apg)
Blake Ellwein, Huron, 6-9, jr. (21.4 ppg, 7.2 rpg, 2.1 apg)
Landon Dulaney, Brandon Valley, 6-2, sr. (14.6 ppg, 6.4 rpg, 3.5 apg)
Sam DeGroot, Sioux Falls Lincoln, 6-6, jr. (15.1 ppg, 7.3 rpg, 1.9 apg)
Gilbert White Jr., Rapid City Central, 5-11, sr. (21.8 ppg, 6.0 rpg, 52 steals)
Sam Ericsson, Sioux Falls Lincoln, 6-3, jr. (12.7 ppg, 2.8 rpg, 1.9 apg)

Second team
Brody Schafer, Sioux Falls Lincoln, 6-0, so. (10.3 ppg, 1.9 rpg, 5.7 apg)
Griffin Wiebenga, Tea Area, 6-3, so. (15.9 ppg, 6.5 rpg, 2.4 apg)
Nolan Krull, Harrisburg, 6-3, sr. (10.2 ppg, 2.5 rpg, 2.5 apg)
Gavin Hinker, Mitchell, 6-4, sr. (10 ppg, 6.3 rpg)
Tommy Hoffman, Sioux Falls Washington (14.4 ppg, 5 rpg, 4 apg)
Dylon Doren, Spearfish, 6-3, sr. (11.1 ppg, 7 rpg, 2.5 apg)
Colton Smith, Mitchell, 6-5, jr. (15.7 ppg, 9.7 rpg, 2.9 apg)

Honorable mention
Luke Olson, Pierre, 5-11 sr. (12.6 ppg, 5 rpg, 5.2 apg, 62 steals)
Nyun Dut, O’Gorman, 6-4, sr. (10.9 ppg, 3.4 rpg)
Ryan Heinert, Sturgis, 6-3, sr. (15.1 ppg, 6.3 rpg, 1.9 apg)
Dayler Segrist, Rapid City Stevens, 6-3, sr. (14.4 ppg, 6.1 rpg)
Austin Terveen, O’Gorman, 6-2, sr. (13.2 ppg, 2.6 rpg, 2 apg)

Repeat selections — 2024 (Talley, Ellwein and Smith, first team; Hoffman and Heinert, second team; Dulaney and Segrist, honorable mention.

First team
*Griffen Goodbary, SF Christian, 6-11, sr. (18 ppg, 6.1 rpg, 36 blocks)
Marvin Richard III, Pine Ridge, 6-4, jr. (34.7 ppg, 6 rpg, 3.8 apg, 76 steals)
Easton Neuendorf, Hamlin, 5-11, sr. (16.9 ppg, 3.3 rpg, 7 apg, 50 steals)
Benson Kieffer, Rapid City Christian, 5-10, sr. (18.8 ppg, 4.3 rpg, 5.1 apg, 57 steals)
Luke Bruns, Dakota Valley, 6-2, sr. (22.8 ppg, 6.6 rpg, 2.9 apg)
Brant Wassenaar, Sioux Falls Christian, 6-5, so. (14.2 ppg, 5.1 rpg, 3.1 apg)

Second team
Trey Hansen, Vermillion, 6-4, jr. (20.2 ppg, 6.4 rpg, 3.5 apg, 64 steals)
Tate Gerdes, Lennox, 6-3, jr. (15.5 ppg, 7 rpg, 5 apg)
Connor Mebius, West Central, 5-9, so. (16.6 ppg, 2.9 rpg, 4.1 apg, 50 steals)
Julius Frog, Rapid City Christian, 6-4, sr. (13.4 ppg, 6.2 rpg, 50 blocks)
Maverick Nelson, Sioux Valley, 6-3, sr. (20.6 ppg, 5.8 rpg, 3 apg)
Ben Brooks, Madison, 6-9, sr. (18.4 ppg, 6.5 rpg, 3.6 apg)

Third team
Carter Craven, Winner, 6-6, so. (21.7 ppg, 11.3 rpg, 43 steals)
Ryder Johnson, Groton Area, 6-3, jr. (18.7 ppg, 5.5 rpg, 2.4 apg)
Devin Buehler, Hill City, 5-11, sr. (17 ppg, 4.5 rpg, 3.9 apg, 71 steals)
Evan Stormo, Hamlin, 6-3, sr. (13.9 ppg, 4.6 rpg, 2.5 apg)
Isaak Hunter, Miller, 6-4, jr. (22.3 ppg, 10.1 rpg, 3.3 apg)
Sullivan Felberg, Clark-Willow Lake, 6-7, fr. (13.5 ppg, 8.3 rpg, 2 apg)

Honorable mention
Kyle Virtue, Custer, 6-4 sr. (17.1 ppg, 11.5 rpg, 43 steals)
Simon Kieffer, Rapid City Christian, 5-11, sr. (12.6 ppg, 4.6 rpg, 3.3 apg)
Cooper Goodbary, Sioux Falls Christian, 6-5, jr. (12.4 ppg, 5 rpg)
Carson Vavruska, Florence-Henry, 5-9, sr. (23.1 ppg, 4 rpg, 4 apg)
Logan Collette, Dakota Valley, 6-0, sr. (17.7 ppg, 4.7 rpg, 4 apg)
Will Kuhl, West Central, 6-9, jr. (13.2 ppg, 6.4 rpg, 58 blocks)

Repeat selections — 2024 (Griffen Goodbary, Neuendorf and Richard, first team; Bruns and Frog, second team; Benson Kieffer, third team; and Simon Kieffer, Hansen and Virtue, honorable mention); 2023 (Neuendorf, third team).

First team
*Bryon Laue, Castlewood, 6-9, sr. (16.6 ppg, 12.5 rpg, 62 blocks)
Nicholas Hanson, Viborg-Hurley, 6-7, sr. (20.1 ppg, 8.3 rpg)
Trevon Beckman, Dell Rapids St. Mary, 6-2, sr. (25.8 ppg, 8.1 rpg, 4.4 apg, 66 steals)
Maverick LeBrun, Dell Rapids St. Mary, 6-6, sr. (20.4 ppg, 11.4 rpg, 2.7 apg)
Grant Wilkinson, De Smet, 6-9, jr. (23.3 ppg, 16.6 rpg, 40 blocks)
Wesley Wittler, Sully Buttes, 6-1, jr. (26.2 ppg, 13.2 rpg, 4.1 apg, 82 steals)

Second team
Luke Koepsell, Howard, 6-4 sr. (15 ppg, 8.1 rpg, 3.4 apg)
Jamison Keszler, Castlewood, 6-0, sr. (15.3 ppg, 2 rpg, 3.7 apg)
Ben Weber, Bridgewater-Emery, 6-5 jr. (19.3 ppg, 10 rpg, 4.2 apg)
Colby Flowers, Wessington Springs, 6-4 jr. (15.9 ppg, 9.2 rpg, 2.4 apg)
Noah Kippley, Leola-Frederick Area, 6-3, sr. (19.1 ppg, 4.7 rpg, 2.4 apg)
Brady Schroedermeier, Viborg-Hurley, 6-1, jr. (11.4 ppg, 3.3 rpg, 3.5 apg, 57 steals)

Third team
Emmet Dinger, Wall, 6-2, jr. (20.3 ppg, 7.1 rpg, 2.3 apg)
Parker Graff, Wessington Springs, 6-1, jr. (17.1 ppg, 4.6 rpg, 1.8 apg)
David Walter, Freeman, 6-4, fr. (18.3 ppg, 6.8 rpg, 1.2 apg)
Brooks Jett, Aberdeen Christian, 6-5, so. (17.5 ppg, 8 rpg, 3 apg)
Jerrad Wallman, James Valley Christian, 6-5, sr. (25.6 ppg, 11 rpg, 1.5 apg)
Teelan Kjerstad, Wall, 6-1, so. (19.4 ppg, 4.5 rpg, 5.2 apg, 73 steals)

Honorable mention
Blair Ham, Lemmon, 6-2, sr. (19 ppg, 8.8 rpg, 2.2 apg, 52 steals)
Moshe Richmond, Wolsey-Wessington, 6-3, sr. (17.8 ppg, 6.5 rpg, 2.5 apg, 61 steals)
Jase Mousel, Colman-Egan, 6-2, sr. (19 ppg, 7.1 rpg, 61 steals)
Brycen Bruening, Parkston, 6-1, so. (17.7 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 4.1 apg)
Owen Niederbaumer, Viborg-Hurley, 6-6, sr. (8.9 ppg, 4.7 rpg)
Kyler Carlson, Estelline-Hendricks, 6-0, jr. (16.8 ppg, 2.1 rpg, 4 apg)

Repeat selections — 2024 (Laue and Hanson, first team; Beckman and Koepsell, second team; Graff, third team; and Weber, Kippley and Wittler, honorable mention); 2023 (Laue, second team).

A federal judge has ruled that South Dakota’s lawsuit against the NCAA should proceed in state court, after the association previously sought to have the case moved to federal jurisdiction.

South Dakota’s attorney general Marty Jackley originally filed suit in September on behalf of the state’s two Division I schools—the University of South Dakota and South Dakota State—accusing the NCAA of breaching its constitution, bylaws and fiduciary duties to its members by agreeing without membership’s vote to a $2.8 billion settlement to resolve the House v. NCAA, Hubbard v. NCAA and Carter v. NCAA antitrust cases.

South Dakota’s suit argues that non-Power 4 Division I schools, such as USD and SDSU, who were not named defendants in those antitrust cases, are being inequitably burdened by their settlement’s damage allocation model. A fairness hearing before U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken, for final approval of the settlement, is scheduled next week. If granted, about 60% of the settlement agreement’s back-pay damages would come from reductions in the annual revenue distributions to schools.

In a 12-page order issued late last week, U.S. District Court Judge Karen E. Schreier remanded South Dakota’s case back to the state circuit court, where it had originally been filed. In turn, Jackley filed a motion Monday for a preliminary injunction in Brookings County, seeking to block the NCAA from withholding funds from the state’s two Division I schools to cover the settlement costs.

“Having profited handsomely from their student athletes for decades, the Power 4 schools can better afford their proportionate share of the damages than publicly funded state universities like the University of South Dakota, South Dakota State University and hundreds of other state schools,” the motion stated, echoing the arguments made in the original lawsuit.

An NCAA spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

South Dakota’s D-I schools compete in the Football Championship Subdivision, where they have enjoyed competitive success. Both schools’ football teams advanced to NCAA FCS semifinals last season and SDSU’s women’s basketball team pulled off an impressive first-round NCAA tournament upset this month against Oklahoma State.

The NCAA sought to move South Dakota’s case to federal court, arguing that some of its state law counts raised significant federal issues including one, in particular, addressing Title IX. South Dakota, in turn, removed the gender-equity count in an amended complaint and motioned to have the case returned to state court, where it is more likely to survive dismissal.

In arguing for state jurisdiction, the plaintiffs referenced the failed attempt by Houston Christian University to directly intervene in House, while raising similar issues over the settlement. Judge Wilken denied the school’s motion, ruling that the university had not demonstrated the court’s jurisdiction over the matter

Judge Schreier’s ruling last week noted that Wilken’s decision against Houston Christian University “bolstered” her own determination to allow the South Dakota case to proceed in state court. Concluding that a dispute over a settlement agreement “is a dispute under state contract law,” she rejected the NCAA’s argument that the original class actions’ federal nature should dictate the venue for South Dakota’s suit.

South Dakota’s legal challenge is just one of several battles that will continue to plague the NCAA even if it successfully resolves House. Just last week, attorneys representing the prospective class in Fontenot v. NCAA, an antitrust case closely mirroring House, filed an amended complaint, adding 292 plaintiffs.

Meanwhile, lawyers advocating for current and former female college athletes—some of whom have formally objected to the settlement—have publicly signaled their intent to launch Title IX litigation if the agreement moves forward. Adding to the NCAA’s legal woes is the ongoing Johnson v. NCAA class action suit, originally filed in 2019, which argues that college athletes should be considered employees of their universities.