Wisconsin guard gives verbal to Bison men's basketball

By Jeff Kolpack

October 15, 2012 at 7:48 PM

FARGO - North Dakota State found success with a 6-foot-3 guard from the Milwaukee area in Lawrence Alexander. The Bison will hope for repeat success with Carlin Dupree.

The senior guard from Bay View High School in Milwaukee gave the Bison a verbal commitment. NDSU was Dupree's only scholarship offer, although he received looks from the University of Detroit, Kent State and Toledo. He did not play AAU basketball, which Bay View head coach Tyler Podoll said kept him under the radar until a five-state tour of games Podoll put together this summer.

"He was blowing up because of all the film we were sending coaches," Podoll said. "North Dakota State came in quickly and was the most aggressive. They were helping Carlin while others were in the process of looking and watching.

Dupree joins Fargo Shanley's A.J. Jacobson as the commitments for 2013-14. Dupree averaged 14.2 points, 8.2 assists and 7.9 rebounds as a junior.

"He's real long as a ballhandler," Podoll said. "Lawrence was the (Summit League's) Newcomer of the Year and I expect Carlin to be the same thing,"

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By Jeff Kolpack

Jeff would like to dispel the notion he was around when Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, but he is on his third decade of reporting with Forum Communications. The son of a reporter and an English teacher, and the brother of a reporter, Jeff has worked at the Jamestown Sun, Bismarck Tribune and since 1990 The Forum, where he's covered North Dakota State athletics since 1995.
Jeff has covered all nine of NDSU's Division I FCS national football titles and has written three books: "Horns Up," "North Dakota Tough" and "Covid Kids." He is the radio host of "The Golf Show with Jeff Kolpack" April through August.