Addi Mack, one of Minnesota’s top scorers, commits to Maryland women’s basketball team

Minnehaha Academy senior Addi Mack received her initial recruiting brochure from Maryland as a seventh-grader.

Six years later, Mack announced she will play college basketball for the Terrapins women’s program and former Gophers coach Brenda Frese next season.

“I am very happy with my decision,” Mack, who had 30 Division I offers, said Wednesday afternoon. “It was really rewarding to know that all my hard work had paid off. My dream had become a reality.”

A 5-8 guard, Mack is a four-star prospect who is the No. 2-ranked recruit in the state for the Class of 2025 and No. 100 in the nation on ESPN’s HoopGurlz ratings. Maple Grove guard Jordan Ode, the state’s top-ranked recruit in the class, signed with Big Ten school Michigan State on Wednesday morning. Ode is ranked 33rd nationally. Ode and Mack were AAU teammates with the Minnesota Fury this summer.

Mack also took official visits to Michigan, Northwestern and Wisconsin. The Gophers were not among her final schools.

“Maryland checked all the right boxes for me,” she said.

The Terrapins have appeared in 20 consecutive NCAA tournaments, winning the national championship in 2006, and are ranked 11th in the Associated Press poll this week.

“They have a rich women’s basketball tradition,” Mack said. “Coach Brenda is one of only four active coaches who have won a national championship, giving me a chance to compete for the Big Ten and national championships.

“They also don’t have a lot of guards, so I will have a chance to play right away.”

Mack averaged 32 points per game as a junior for the Redhawks last season; only four players in history reached 3,000 points more quickly than she did. Mack scored a career-high 53 points in a 104-86 victory over Crosby-Ironton and Gophers commit Tori Oehrlein in the third-place game of the Class 2A state tournament last season.