Tor a good fit at Montana State

Playing with Net Gain Sports for the past couple off-seasons 6-foot-3 Minnetonka guard Tor Anderson impressed Montana State enough to receive a scholarship offer. When Shawn Reid accepted an offer from the school a year ago there was no longer room for Tor but Montana State still wanted him as a walk-on. After a senior year that saw Tor average 12.7 points a game Anderson accepted the walk-on offer.

"We're very fortunate to have Tor joining our program as he brings Division I attributes to the table immediately," Montana State head coach Brad Huse said. "We have a good relationship with Tor and we think he could contribute very early in his career. We are a bit thin on the perimeter from a depth standpoint and we'll be relying on some young kids to fill in at the guard spots, and Tor could very well be a factor on the depth chart. Ultimately, Tor is a great kid and a very hungry player. He'll be a great addition."

Anderson may also have the chance to receive a scholarship in the future as maybe a transfer or graduation may open up a tender for him. Tor has been linked to Montana State since his sophomore season when Anderson camped at the school and took an unofficial visit.

Tor earned was all-conference in the Classic Lake as a senior and was named Minnetonka's Defensive Player of the year as a senior. He scored a season high 20 points in a nine-point, mid-February loss to Hopkins. Tor played at Prior Lake as a freshman and sophomore averaging 8.0 and 15.3 points a game respectively. His junior year Tor had to sit out due to transferring to Minnetonka and then his senior season Anderson scored the 12.7 points a contest. Tor was one of five players for the Skippers averaging in double figures including LaSalle signed Cole Stefan who led at 17.9 points a game. Anderson finished his career with exactly 900 career points.

"Tor did everything we asked of him all year," said interim Skipper head coach Joseph Burger. "As a guard he was our best rebounder and shut down defender. He consistently guarded the other team's top scorer, which allowed our other guys to defend better knowing they only had to worry about their match-up. The other four guys knew Tor would handle whomever he was guarding, that was the key to our defensive improvement toward the end of the season.

"Offensively, he did a great job splitting time between the point and two guard. He was versatile and big enough for us to run some sets through him to exploit match-ups in the post and had great vision and patience to set up cutters. He had the ability to breakdown slower defenders when we ran him at the point and I know a lot of opposing coaches had to gameplan specifically to keep him out of the lane off of penetration since he did such a good job drawing off the ball defenders and kicking out to one of our shooters.

"Tor was great to coach and I knew what I would get from him daily. He could have been a kid that averaged well over 20 points a game if he wanted to be. Instead he averaged 13 on a team that had five guys average double figures. He was never selfish to just go out and get his even though he has the ability to be that type of scorer.