Nathan Reuvers - F (2017) - Bucky's 5th Quarter

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Class	Position	Height	Weight
2017	PF	6'10"	210 lb
School		AAU
Lakeville (MN) North HS		~~Minnesota Fury~~ / D1 Minnesota

Rankings

Rivals: 4-star recruit (#13 PF / #79 overall) Green_arrowup_medium
Scout: (#10 PF / #70 overall) Red_arrowdown_medium
ESPN: 3-star recruit 83 (#14 PF / #83 overall)
24/7: 95 (#12 PF / #52 overall)
Northstar Hoops: #2 player in Minnesota

Last Updated: April 20, 2017
Previous Rankings: 4-star (#15 PF/#84 overall) > 3-star (#20/#108) by Rivals; 4-star (#9/#67 overall > #11/#74) > 3-star PF by Scout; 4-star/83 (#13 PF/#83 overall > #19/#87) by ESPN; 4-star/95 (#12 PF/#49 overall > #14/#57) > 93 (#17 PF/#83 overall > #20/#92) by 24/7; #3 > #6 player in MN by Northstar Hoops
Rankings at time of commitment: 3-star by Scout; NR by Rivals, ESPN, 24/7 or 247Composite (now 4-star/0.9719 in 247Composite, #14 PF/#63 overall/#2 in MN > 3-star/0.8984, #38 PF/#176 overall/#4 in MN)

Honors

2017 First Team All-State (AP)
2017 First Team All-Metro (StarTribune)
2016 Third Team All-State (AP)
2016 Third Team All-Metro (StarTribune)

Statistics

2016-17:
2016: 12.4 ppg, 4.1 rpg, 1.5 bpg, 1.1 apg, 47.6% FG, 31.7% 3FG, 73.9% FT | Adidas Uprising / Championship
2016: NBPA Top 100
2015-16: 20 ppg, 8 rpg, 4 bpg | Junior (North)
2014-15: 6.5 ppg | Sophomore (North)

Signed National Letter of Intent

Signed on November 9, 2016
Davison, King and Reuvers form heralded 2017 Signing Class (UWBadgers.com)

Verbally committed on May 18, 2016
Badgers receive oral commitment from Minnesota forward (Journal Sentinel)
Wisconsin has added Lakeville (MN) North 2017 power forward Nathan Reuvers (BadgerNation.com)
Lakeville North's Nathan Reuvers commits to Badgers, over Gophers (Pioneer Press)
Minnesota prep forward Nathan Reuvers commits to Wisconsin (Wisconsin State Journal)

Considering his father and three of his four siblings have attended Notre Dame, snagging Nathan Reuvers out of Minnesota might be a harder task than it seems. Reuvers even made the initial contact with the Irish in this case. However, that hasn't stopped Wisconsin from tracking Reuvers closely over the last few months. He took an unofficial visit to Madison in September, and assistant coach Lamont Paris watched Reuvers in February. Greg Gard flew up personally to watch Lakeville North top Rochester John Marshall in a sectional final on Friday, March 4. Reuvers played exceptionally well from all accounts and received an offer from Gard afterward.

Just picked up an offer from Wisconsin #blessed pic.twitter.com/pOdOC7Ecjk
— Nathan Reuvers (@Reuvers23) March 5, 2016

Reuvers has drawn favorable comparisons to a young Jon Leuer. Like Leuer, he is a bit of a late riser, having spent time on the JV team as a sophomore at perennial power Lakeville North. He has even played goalkeeper on the North soccer team -- imagine scoring on someone that size. Bythe end of his junior season, this senior-to-be held scholarship offers from Air Force, Cornell, Creighton, DePaul, Duquesne, Green Bay, North Dakota, Penn, Santa Clara, South Dakota State, San Diego, and Yale, meaning Wisconsin beat Minnesota to the punch with his first high-major offer. Reuvers switched over to the D1 Minnesota program this year on the travel circuit. He has since picked up offers from Clemson, Illinois, Northwestern, Illinois, Minnesota, Marquette, North Carolina State, Washington State, Harvard and Princeton, while drawing interest from Stanford, Notre Dame and Xavier among others. He made an unofficial visit to Wisconsin on Wednesday, May 18 and pulled the trigger right away.

Nathan Reuvers knew going into his UW visit that he'd commit: The people I stopped and talked to made it seem like a really special place
— Benjamin Worgull (@TheBadgerNation) May 18, 2016