Basketball News | Schedule | Media Guide | History | Roster | Photo Gallery | Coaches | Previous Season

Listen to Tim Smith of KMIT radio interview the GPAC Champion Tigers 41 min. • 16 meg • mp3

Interested in becoming a Tiger Basketball Player?
Click here to fill out a DWU basketball questionnaire

Tigers announce men’s basketball recruits

Shane Murphy

MITCHELL, S.D. – Shane Murphy, first-year head men’s basketball coach at Dakota Wesleyan University, announced a list of solid recruits to add to the 2010-11 recruiting class Tuesday afternoon.

Five transfers and five incoming freshmen have been added to the Tigers’ roster. The latest recruits bring DWU’s 2010-11 recruiting class to 11.

“I’m very pleased with the latest group of recruits and proud to be able to add that level of talent to our roster,” said Murphy, who was hired July 1 to take over for John Hemenway. “With the talented recruits and solid group of returners, we’re excited to get started with our season.”

At the top of the latest Tiger recruiting class is German Madueno. The Woodland, Calif., native played for American River College in Sacramento, Calif., before coming to DWU and was an All-Conference player for the Beavers. Madueno will be a junior.

Larry Swann joins the Tigers as a senior from Gannon University, an NCAA Division II school in Erie, Pennsylvania. Swan, a Columbus, Ohio, native, played for one season at Gannon after transferring from South Suburban Community College (Ill.). At South Suburban, he was named the MVP of the 2008 Regional Tournament and helped the team win two regional championships en route to a pair of national tournament appearances. As a sophomore, he averaged 14.1 points and 3.3 assists per game for a team that was nationally ranked and went 29-4.

Swann, a 6-foot-1 combo guard, averaged 14 points and five rebounds per game for Brookhaven High School. He helped his team to four city championships and a runner-up finish at the state tournament. He was a two-time All-City player and a District Player Honorable Mention.

Demetrius Davis, a 6-1 guard, comes to the Tigers from North Idaho Community College. The junior transfer will have two seasons of eligibility remaining. He played for the Cardinals for one year after transferring from West Valley College.

The Chicago native played out his prep career at Marshall High School in Chicago where he averaged 18 points, seven rebounds and six assists per game. He was named to the All-Conference and All-City teams.

Transfer Tristan Washington will be familiar with both DWU and the Great Plains Athletic Conference as he joins the Tigers from Dana College. Washington, a 6-2 guard, will have senior eligibility at Dakota Wesleyan. He was injured for part of his junior season with the Vikings, but averaged 15 points and three rebounds per game when he was able to play.

Washington, an Omaha, Neb., native, also played at Southwestern Community College. He averaged 11 points and six rebounds per game as a senior for Benson High School.

Also a junior transfer, Kristopher Wilson comes to DWU from Neosho County Community College in Chanute, Kan. The 5-11 guard is a Lawrence, Kan., native and averaged 15 points and eight assists per game for Lawrence Free State High School. He also broke his school’s record for steals and assists.

The Tigers also got commitments from five incoming freshmen, and they will join Harrisburg big man Patrick Draisey, who had previously committed to play with the Tigers.

Headlining the freshmen recruits is Glenn Jackson, a 6-2 guard from Rapid City, S.D. The Central High School graduate averaged 18.9 points and 6.7 rebounds per game for the Cobblers as a senior when he led his team to a 17-7 record as well as conference and region championships. Jackson was a Mr. Basketball finalist, a member of the Best of the West team, a Second-Team All-State pick and an All-Tournament Team selection as a senior.

James O’Halloran will also add height and depth at the guard spot for DWU. O’Halloran, a Dakota City, Neb., native, averaged 22.9 points per game for the Sioux City Warriors, a home-school team in Sioux City, Iowa. He was the MVP of the 2010 Siouxland Community Christian Tournament.

Brandon Feterl comes to DWU from nearby Salem, S.D., where he lettered for four years and started for three years for the McCook Central/Montrose Fighting Cougars. He helped his team to a 20-6 record, district and region championships and the Class A state tournament as a senior when he averaged 11.5 points per game. The 6-foot guard averaged 17 points per game as a senior, and scored a career-high 35 points against Howard High School.

Feterl earned All-Conference honors as a junior and senior, was named the DWU Classic MVP in 2010, was on the All-State Tournament team as a senior and was the team’s MVP as a junior and senior.

Another in-state recruit, Tyler Buxcel comes to DWU after a four-year career at Jones County High School. A Murdo, S.D., native, Buxcel averaged 18.7 points, three steals and three assists per game for the Coyotes. He set a school record for three-pointers in a season with 47, and scored a career-high 43 points in a game. Buxcel, a 6-1 guard, earned All-Conference honors as a junior and senior.

Rounding out the recruiting class is Kadeyn Johnson. A 6-3 guard, Johnson averaged seven points and five rebounds per game at O’Neill High School in O’Neill, Neb., as a senior. He started in all 19 games and shot 41 percent from the field.

DWU’s newest recruits will be a part of a talented Tiger squad that returns several familiar faces from the 2009-10 team that advanced to the Sweet 16 at the NAIA National Tournament in Branson, Mo. Dakota Wesleyan is looking to defend its GPAC regular-season and tournament titles, as well as make a fifth-straight trip to the national tournament.