5 ’24s Debuting in the Top 85

Robert Kelly July 12, 2022 @ 11:37 PM

Twenty prospects joined the 2024 class rankings, swelling the group nearly 20 percent. Now with nearly 150 players listed, five entered the ranks in the top 80. Starting at the top, here is a look at the those five. #47 [player_tooltip player_id="453755" first="Nyah" last="Chandler"], 5’7", PG, Wichita Southeast - Chandler earned 2022 Greater Wichita League second team honors after earning honorable mention in 2021. In late June Prep Girls Hoops Kansas scout Adrian Maloney wrote that she is "A big-time rebounding guard." This past season she had multiple double-digit rebounds. She is physical and uses her rebounding and perimeter scoring to fill up the box score. Chandler also can push the ball in transition. #53 [player_tooltip player_id="432514" first="Jacqueline" last="Hall"], 5’10", SG, Pittsburg, Missouri Legacy - "Jackie" has strong potential to play the stretch four as well as guard positions at the next level. She has g<span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Strong potential to play the stretch four. Good footage of exposure workout. Good quickness, feet, hands, and length. Catches well on the fly, finish with either hand, and has good handles. Prep Girls Hoops Live 2022: 10 Standouts by Michael Riddle 5.25.22 - Hall broke down the high-pressure presses all weekend. Smooth offensive game and can get to the rim and finish with ease. The long guard shuts down her opponet on defense as well.Scored 16 of team’s 29 in 20 point loss to Webb City, Dec 2021. Get to the basket from right wing. Quick three off loose ball."}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":4609,"3":{"1":0},"12":0,"15":"Verdana"}">ood quickness, feet, hands, and length. She also catches well on the fly, finishes with either hand, and has good handles. Hall’s quick release on her perimeter shot is hard to stop given players have to respect her ability to get to the basket from the wing. Prep Girls Hoops scout Michael Riddle saw her in late May at the Prep Girls Hoops Live 2022 event. He said "Hall broke down the high-pressure presses all weekend. Smooth offensive game and can get to the rim and finish with ease. The long guard shuts down her opponent on defense as well." Hall was named to the Southeast Kansas League second team this past season. #66 [player_tooltip player_id="453756" first="MyLeah" last="Brown"], 5’8", SG, Sumner Academy - Brown earned KC Atchison League 2022 first team and defensive player of the year honors. Sumner coach Mike Platt describes her as "...just an all around great athlete. She is a very sound player who will be able to play at the next level." With her confidence growing she will light up the Kansas City Atchison League like Jordyn Rowe did a couple years ago. #73 [player_tooltip player_id="453757" first="MaKenzie" last="McDaniel"], 6’0", C, Silver Lake, Southwest Elite - After getting shut down by eventual state champion Goodland in the class 3A semi-finals this past March McDaniel has been on a tear this summer. Not only did one opponent’s coach, after having played her Southwest Elite team, regard her as the best player on the team but D I Abilene Christian University offered her recently. McDaniel is big, strong, has a diversified and growing back-to-basket game, and uses her mass well to get position for rebounds. This past season McDaniel was named the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association’s class 3A second team all-state and to the Mid-East League’s first team. #83 [player_tooltip player_id="453758" first="Rylan" last="Chandler"], 5’7", PG, Wichita Southeast - If one Chandler is not enough to see in the Buffalo’s back court then have a dose of Rylan. In June Maloney said "...you don’t want to see them as the backcourt on the other side of the ball. Rylan has a unique way of getting into her nice release, she shoots it with confidence nonetheless and knocks it down when left open. Every game she seems to find her way to that right-wing wide-open hitting the 3. Chandler possesses that tenacity on the defensive end racking up a lot of steals on and off-ball. What most people may see as the “easy” off-ball steals, Rylan gets it done on the ball. From taking it from you while you’re dribbling, or you throwing a lazy pass and she jumps right up to get it, count on Rylan to get the job done game in game out." Featured image: Silver Lake 2024 [player_tooltip player_id="453757" first="MaKenzie" last="McDaniel"], left, boxes out against a Goodland player during the 2022 class 3A state tournament semi-finals. Photo: Robert Kelly.