Report: Arizona basketball interested in South Dakota State transfer Baylor Scheierman

One of many prime gamers within the males’s school basketball switch portal is receiving curiosity from Arizona however is the curiosity mutual?

South Dakota State switch Baylor Scheierman instructed The Stadium’s Jeff Goodman that Arizona is certainly one of a number of excessive main packages to succeed in out to him previously day.

Scheierman, a 6-foot-6 rising junior from Aurora, Nebraska, averaged 16.2 factors, 7.8 rebounds and 4.5 assists for the Jackrabbits final season. The 2021-22 Summit League Participant of the Yr, Scheierman led SDSU to the NCAA Event, the place it fell to Windfall within the Spherical of 64.

Scheierman’s most spectacular stat final season was his 50.8 taking pictures proportion, together with 46.9 from behind the arc. Scheirman’s taking pictures was no fluke; in 2020-21, his first full season, he shot 49.8 % from the sphere and 43.8 % from 3-point vary.

Transferring is just not Scheierman’s solely choice on the desk. He declared for the NBA Draft in March with the choice to return to high school. Contemplating he waited a full month to enter the switch portal after declaring, the writing is perhaps on the wall that Scheierman wouldn’t be a excessive choice if he had been to remain within the draft.

The extra related query: Is a child from a city of lower than 5,000 folks in central Nebraska prone to find yourself at Arizona? Most likely not, in accordance with his personal phrases.

Scheierman instructed the Omaha World-Herald Tuesday that rising up his favourite workforce was the reigning nationwide champion Kansas Jayhawks.

“Rising up, having the aspirations I did, that’s what I dreamed of getting — having Kentucky and Kansas and Duke and all these Excessive Occasions colleges (recruit me),” he instructed the paper.

“You have a look at your telephone and it says Invoice Self’s calling you — from a small city child from rural Nebraska, that’s what you dream of. It’s a surreal second, and I’m grateful for it.”

Arizona has its work reduce out attempting to lure Scheierman, but it surely’s price a shot.