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Devils Lake alum Wylee Delorme is transferring to the University of North Dakota men’s basketball team, he announced on Monday.
“All in,” he wrote simply on X, attached with a graphic of him wearing a Fighting Hawks jersey.
Delorme spent one year at the University of Mary. On March 12, he announced he’d entered the transfer portal. He revealed he’d received offers from the University of Sioux Falls, UND and Northern State University before he ultimately picked UND.
Delorme was the Class A state tournament MVP as a high school senior in 2024. He averaged 17.9 points per game and was a finalist for Mr. Basketball. His stardom led Devils Lake to its first state championship since 1925.
He struggled to get playing time for the majority of his first collegiate season at Mary, an NCAA Division II school. However, he scored 32 points in a game against Minnesota State Moorhead on Feb. 8, which tied the school’s single-game scoring record for a freshman. With that performance included, he scored 79 points over the last five games of the season, despite starting in zero of them.
Delorme finished his lone year at Mary with 6.3 points per game overall. He got an average of 13.1 minutes of playing time per contest. He shot 42.9% from the floor and made 17 threes in 49 attempts (34.7%).
The Marauders went just 5-26 overall and 3-19 in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference.
Delorme, now in D-I ranks, joins a UND team that recently lost star Treysen Eaglestaff to the transfer portal. Eaglestaff opened eyes with a 40-point performance against Alabama and a 51-point performance against South Dakota State. The Bismarck native and 2022 Mr. Basketball winner received interest from a large list of major schools before announcing his transfer to the University of South Carolina.
UND went 12-21 overall this past season, and 5-11 in Summit League play.
Last year, before Delorme departed to the University of Mary, Devils Lake head coach Dustin Brodina noted in an interview with the Devils Lake Journal that going D-II was a better fit than D-I for Delorme, at the time.
“It’s gonna be a good place for Wylee to go and compete right away,” Brodina said last May, “versus some of the higher Division I schools where he’d have to sit for a few years.”
Now, Delorme will play D-I basketball in just his second collegiate season. His high school track record and end-of-season college breakout were evidently enough for Hawks head coach Paul Sather.
Meanwhile the Marauders, after losing Delorme, will be getting another Devils Lake basketball star in Parker Brodina next year. The Firebirds were the Class A state runner-up in their first year without Delorme.
