The Drake University men's basketball team has officially signed Tucker DeVries (Waukee, Iowa) and Conor Enright (Mundelein, Ill.) to National Letters of Intent, Drake head coach Darian DeVries announced Wednesday, Nov. 11.
 
"What I love about both Tucker and Conor is they're both high basketball IQ guys that are really skilled," Coach DeVries said. "Both are extremely competitive and high-character guys. With what we have and our culture is all about, they fit right in. I'm excited to have both of them in our program next year."
 
DeVries, the son of Coach DeVries, joins the Bulldogs as one of the most highly touted recruits in program history. The 6-6 wing player from Waukee, Iowa, is ranked as the top in-state player by The Des Moines Register and is a consensus four-star and top-100 recruit in his class.
 
"From a personal standpoint, you can't be more excited for your son to get a chance to play college basketball but to be able to coach him makes it even more special," Darian DeVries said. "I know he's excited to be here and excited to be a Drake Bulldog. He'll give us some versatility and ability to stretch the floor and shoot it, in addition to making plays off the dribble to create for others. There's a lot of ways he can impact what we do on the floor and it fits our style of 'positionless basketball.'
 
As a junior, he averaged 21.4 points, 7.8 rebounds and 4.7 assists per game to lead Waukee to state runner-up honors. He was fourth in Class 4A scoring and earned first-team All-State honors while shooting 48.1 percent from the three-point arc.
 
Enright, a 6-2 point guard, was named the North Suburban Conference Player of the Year last year before the postseason's cancellation. However, he still garnered All-State honors in Illinois after averaging 14.5 points and 6.0 rebounds per game and has already scored more than 1,000 points for Mundelein High School.
 
"I love Conor's toughness, demeanor and the way he leads a team," DeVries said. "He's one of those guys that when he walks on the floor, everything around him is about winning, whether he's scoring or not, Conor makes the plays he feels need to be made to win the game. I think our fans are going to love his playing style. He leaves it all out there."