Kevin Noreen

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Kevin Noreen, who was named Minnesota’s Mr. Basketball for 2010, has signed a grant-in-aid to attend West Virginia University in 2010-11 and play basketball for the Mountaineers, coach Bob Huggins announced today.

“We are really excited about getting a player of Kevin’s caliber this late in the process,” says Huggins. “Kevin is a multi-skilled player who will fit in our system extremely well. With our abundance of physical low post players, Kevin’s skill set should prove very valuable for our team’s future.”

Noreen is a 6-foot-10, 220-pound forward from Minneapolis, where he attended Minnesota Transitions Charter School. As a senior, he averaged 38.6 points, 16.5 rebounds, 5.9 assists, 3.9 steals and 3.2 blocks per game for coach John Sherman.

Noreen guided his team to the 2010 Class A state championship, scoring 24 points with 15 rebounds and nine blocks against Sebeka in the state title contest. For his efforts, he was named to the all-state tournament team. He also had games of 22 points, 22 rebounds against Cass Lake-Bena and 17 points and 11 rebounds against Rushford-Peterson during the state playoffs.

He is the all-time scoring leader in Minnesota high school history, scoring 4,086 career points. As a senior, Noreen had 14 games of more than 40 points, including seven when he scored 50 or more points. He had 1,205 points last year, his third straight 1,000-point season.

Noreen earned first team all-state honors as a senior and second-team honors as a junior. As a senior, he was named the Minneapolis Star-Tribune Player of the Year.

As a junior, Noreen averaged 32.8 points, 12.4 rebounds, 5.5 steals and 4.8 assists while shooting 66 percent from the field. He played AAU basketball for the Minnesota Pump N Run.

Noreen joins Noah Cottrill (Logan High, Logan, W.Va.), David Nyarsuk (Mountain State Academy, Beckley, W.Va., native of Juba, Sudan) and Darrious Curry (Stratford High, Houston, Texas) as signees for the 2010-11 season.

	Posted by jake_d on 6/29/10 at 5:10 PM Welcome to West Virginia. Nice job from the coaches on a very solid looking class.
	Posted by WVUMyrtleBeach on 6/30/10 at 5:59 AM Kevin welcome to WVU and WV. Thanks for choosing the Mountaineers as your college home. You will be playing for the best coaches, with the best players, and at the best facilities. Be patient, persevere, and play hard and intelligently. GGGGooo Mountaineers!!! Beat Pitt!
	Posted by Tom on 6/30/10 at 9:23 AM Great for WVU! I am glad to see they recruit good players and also players with intelligence in the classroom.
	Posted by Joel In Atlanta on 6/30/10 at 10:16 AM Stories say Noreen selected us. And all this happened within three days. So my question is... Did Coach Huggins or his staff ever witness in-person this recruit play?
	Posted by mike on 6/30/10 at 12:40 PM looks like another good recruiting class to go along with players coming back, i only hope coach huggins lets the players play next year seems like to me they are all afraid to make a mistake or miss a shot . let them play , players looking over shoulders to much. go mountaineers
	Posted by jOHN on 6/30/10 at 1:04 PM Huggs, you make the Final Four for the first time in 50 years and people in this limited viewing question you. You are the only untouchable coach right now at WVU just keep doing what you do! This young man Noreen is rated #1 in the State of Minnesota, that's good enough for me.
	Posted by sean on 6/30/10 at 3:44 PM Yea come on Mike. They go to the Final Four and you question their coaching? The guys that didn't take shots were the ones that cant shoot!. You want Flowers chucking up threes? Or Jennings taking foul line jumpers? No. Huggins did a fantastic job, ran in to a better team in Indy (hate to say it about Dook but it was true last year). I have never, and will never question Huggins methods. He is an A-list coach who has taken two teams to the Final Four, and brought another from mediocrity to a perennial contender in one year. I think I'd take his word on how he coaches.
	Posted by mike on 6/30/10 at 4:55 PM sean : wvu fan for life .love huggins as a coach also alot of people had wvu in finale 4 before tour. evenen started. just an opintion from watching every game . two nba draft picks and you have a pretty good chance to win. how many off of dukes national championship team were drafted.
	Posted by Kevin A McCauley on 6/30/10 at 5:00 PM Welcome, young man. Go to class, practice and play hard and listen to Coach Huggins. If you do these things, you will be a happy man in life and on the basketball court. Go get 'em!!!
	Posted by John in California on 7/01/10 at 10:25 AM Ignore Mike, he sits in front of his computer all day and does nothing but post on the internet until he needs a diaper change. If you could only see him! Congrats Kevin on making a great choice. Having one of the best head coaches in college sport instructing you will help you become the best player you can be.
	Posted by wvurealist on 7/01/10 at 11:06 PM We had a great run in the Big East tournamnet & dance but lets remember those great 15 point halves - we need some players that can score off their own dribble - that is what we need to make it to the next step!
	Posted by bob on 7/04/10 at 1:58 AM I NEVER SAW NOREEN PLAY EITHER BUT WITH HIS STATS AND HIS SIZE.....NUFF SAID
	Posted by brucee on 7/05/10 at 7:44 PM I'm pumped about what coach huggs is putting together Go Mounties.zg
	Posted by Carson on 7/05/10 at 11:31 PM Very impressed with this class and the coaches.. Is WVU now a basketball school?
	Posted by W. Gwinn on 7/06/10 at 2:34 PM Carson, Sure seems like we are heading that way. :)
	Posted by John (Minnesota) on 7/08/10 at 9:18 AM Being a Minnesota Gym Rat i have seen alot of talent come through, I am very happy for kevin to go to West virginia. I don't see him playing right away he needs alot of work to do. Playing 1A schools is way different than division 1. It may be a little different playing the minnesota school of deaf, oh day aki (small immigration school), playing teams with guys with one arm. 40 points is alot to average but when your playing players that are just learning the game it might be a little easier.
	Posted by gpwoody on 7/11/10 at 11:10 AM anytime you can get a 6'10" player who is used to winning and can SCORE it's a good thing. if Kevin needs to get bigger and tougher i think he came to the right place. best of luck Kevin we look forward to seeing you play.

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