Syracuse basketball, Derik Queen (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
A few months back, we detailed how Syracuse basketball was showing interest in elite 2024 player Derik Queen, and he just wrapped up a monster freshman campaign for his high school in Baltimore.
Queen, a 6-foot-8 power forward out of the Saint Frances Academy in Baltimore, recently was named the National Freshman of the Year by MaxPreps for the 2020-21 stanza. He also received inclusion on the MaxPreps freshman All-America first squad.
In an article by Jordan Divens, the MaxPreps national basketball editor, Divens wrote that Queen in 2020-21 averaged 16 points, 10 rebounds and four assists per contest.