Northern Star: Jordan Zubich
Mountain Iron-Buhl Senior to play for UNC in 2024
MOUNTAIN BUHL, Minn.- After winning their first-ever Class A State Championship, Jordan Zubich and her Mountain Iron-Buhl teammates are now in title defense mode.
“Just going out the way we did last season, I think it added like extra motivation to come back this year,” says Zubich, who averaged a team-high 26.5 points per game in 2022-23. “(Winning state is) just like a feeling that obviously you want to feel again, but you can’t really describe it…Everything you’ve worked for your entire life, just being able to be in that moment with my teammates was a lot of fun.”
Even with an entire season ahead of her, Jordan has already cemented her status as a Northern Minnesota megastar. “I feel like I’ve been on varsity since seventh grade, so it’s really weird that I’m the one that everyone’s looking up to (now).”
“She has such a high basketball IQ that it’s super easy to be her teammate.” Hali Savela, a fellow senior for MIB, has grown up playing basketball with Zubich. “She knows where I’m going to be all the time, and where the rest of the teammates are going to be at all points of the game.”
Zubich was a highly sought after recruit and has signed to play for the University of North Carolina following graduation. Along with winning a second-straight State Championship, this future Tar Heel has another goal in mind as her high school hoops career winds down.
“Well, I would like to score my 3,000th point,” Zubich admits.
“We only have eight games at home…I can’t really plan that out, but maybe if I can do it at home. I know the scoring record is held by Chelsea mason, and I think that’s around 3000, so maybe breaking that making that would be kind of cool.” Like Zubich, Mason played on Mountain Iron-Buhl’s varsity team for six seasons. The 2017 high school graduate eventually went on to play for UMD. “I just remember watching Chelsea when I was younger, and I was at the game she scored her 3,000th point, and I was astonished… I was like, ‘how is that even possible?'”
Mountain Iron-Buhl’s regular season begins at the St. Thomas Academy Thanksgiving Tip-Off where they will play Holy Angels on Friday, followed by a game against Roseville on Saturday.
