As it turns out, the 50 players receiving Gatorade Boys State POY Awards weren’t the only winners. Today, we review the college programs that acquired them.

Excluding the handful of players who have yet to commit, here are your boys’ standouts with the top schools they have chosen.

Akron
Will Trapp (Ohio POY)

California
Seth Casiple (California POY)

Cincinnati
Cole DeNormandie (Massachusetts POY)

Claremont McKenna College
Jake Bishop (Oregon POY)

Clemson
Amadou Tidiane Dia (Colorado POY)

Colorado State
Kirby Hutto (Alaska POY)

Creighton
John Davidson (Georgia POY)
Scott Granger (Hawaii POY)
Eric Miller (Minnesota POY)

Dartmouth
Eric Jayne (New Hampshire POY)

Denver
Oliver Brown (Kentucky POY)
Kasey Esponda (Wyoming POY)

Duke
Luis Rendon (Virginia POY)

Furman
Adrian McInnis (Louisiana POY)

George Mason
Verneri Valimaa (Florida POY)

Gonzaga
Nathanael Pacheco (New Mexico POY)

Indiana
Michael Soderlund (Idaho POY)
Eriq Zavaleta (Indiana POY)

Loyola (MD)
Joey Wilkins (Virginia POY)

Maryland
Daniel Metzger (New Jersey POY)

Memphis
Chandler Gagnon (Tennessee POY)

Meridian CC
Ducky Troutman (Mississippi POY)

Michigan State
Dzenan Catic (Michigan POY)

New Hampshire
Paul Bianchi (Vermont POY)

North Carolina
Nathan Diehl (Alabama POY)
Cooper Vandermaas-Peeler (North Carolina POY)

Notre Dame
Vince Cicciarelli (Illinois POY)
Nick Besler (Kansas POY)

Portland
Derek Boggs (Utah POY)

Providence
Fazal Nabi (New Hampshire POY)
Marcos Ugarte (Rhode Island POY)

Saint Louis
William Hidalgo (Arkansas POY)

SIU - Edwardsville
Matthew Polster (Nevada POY)

SMU
Aaron Simmons (Texas POY)
Will Smith (Oklahoma POY)

South Carolina
Robert Beebe (South Carolina POY)

Stanford
Zach Batteer (Pennsylvania POY)

St. John's
Tim Parker (New York POY)

Wisconsin
Alec Cochran (Missouri POY)

Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Alex Megna (Wisconsin POY)

Xavier
Jake Linden (Nebraska POY)

Yale
Kevin Michalak (Connecticut POY)

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