This weekend 2024 Mississippi State signee Dellquan Warren begins a new chapter in his basketball journey. The On3 composite four-star point guard will make the move to Starkville and begin summer school classes and workouts with the Bulldogs next week.
Warren was State’s lone signee back during the November period and he has been steadily preparing himself for the next level. Warren is rated as the nation’s No. 18 point guard and the state’s No. 5 prospect by On3 composite rankings.
“I will be there on June 1st,” explained Warren, a Pennsylvania native. “I am getting ready for the contact and just going against people that are way more experienced than I am. So it’s just about getting ready in a lot of areas. I’ve been working a lot on my jumpshot and getting it more consistent,” Warren added.”
Naturally, Warren has been in steady contact with head coach Chris Jans and his staff over the past few months. And the coaches’ advice to Warren regarding what to expect this summer is a consistent theme with State’s staff.
“The coaches have told me to be ready to work,” added the 6-foot-1 and 160-pound Warren. “They said you have to be willing to work every day and compete every day. And I know that is what I have to do to get on the floor and show I can compete with anybody.”
At the next level, Warren already realizes the type of adjustments he will face in the talent-laden SEC, which has become one of the nation’s toughest conferences this decade. But it is a challenge that Warren welcomes with open arms.
“That’s a good situation,” Warren remarked. “Where I come from, nobody has made it to that high of a level in the SEC. So it’s important to me to show that I can compete with anybody in the country in the SEC. It feels great to go play in that big league and I will be ready for it. I’m just trust in my work.”
With his inexperience in the SEC, Warren also walks into a good situation with Mississippi State’s backcourt. The Bulldogs feature All-SEC freshman Josh Hubbard along with transfers Kanye Clary, Riley Kugel and Claudell Harris on the 2024-25 roster, and that’s a lot of experience to learn from, said Warren. In fact, he’s already starting building those bonds with his future teammates.
“I will definitely lean on my teammates and that’s sure thing,” noted Warren. “I am lean on the older guys who can tell me the ins and outs of Starkville and in the SEC. They can help me with opponents and stuff like that.
“So I will be having conversations with them and I’ve already been talking with most of the players. I’ve been building that connection now. I’ve been talking to Josh (Hubbard), Cam (Matthews) and the new big from Miami (Michael Nwoko). So I am getting ready to play with my new teammates and building that chemistry now.”
In the coming days Warren wants to learn the lay of the land in his new surroundings, whether it deals with campus, his class schedule and summer workout sessions. And inside the gym, he also has things he wants to work on the most in the coming months.
“This summer the main thing is being able to play through contact,” Warren mentioned. “Then like I said earlier, I want to be able to knock down open shots. I want to utilize that because that is probably one of the better things I do.”
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