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Posted Sunday, July 19th, 2009
St. Anthony's legendary head coach Bob Hurley will be hosting two clinics next month, both of which will be presented by Reebok Basketball and Shooting Touch. Coach Bob Hurley's Kids Clinic is a four day clinic for boys and girls in grades 3 through 8. The clinic will be held from August 10th to the 13th at Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts and will include a focus on offensive fundamentals, instruction on the mental aspects of the game, as well…
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Posted Sunday, July 19th, 2009
Few players were better in the first half of the July live period than Billy Baron. He played to rave reviews at virtually every stop along the way, and as he thrived so did his Expressions Elite team, playing arguably their best basketball of the year in the last two weeks. But despite all that, Baron worries that perhaps not all college coaches were paying too much attention because they assumed he would automatically follow in his brother’s footsteps to…
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Posted Saturday, July 18th, 2009
Pat Chambers has landed his first commitment since taking over the program at Boston University. Chambers, who was previously an assistant coach at Villanova, returned to his old stomping ground to pick up 6'1" guard Mike Terry from North Catholic High School in Philadelphia. Terry is a shot maker who averaged just under 12 points per game while connecting on 46% of his attempts from behind the three-point line as a junior, earning him recognition as All First Team in…
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Posted Saturday, July 18th, 2009
Last Friday marked the final day of of the 1st Annual Massachusetts Elite Camp. The camp was set up as a combination team camp as well as a teaching and exposure camp. For the first year, the attendance at the camp was much more than the directors expected. The talented group of campers featured a very solid group of point guards led by Jasper Grassa, Kadeem Monroe, Osmal Odena and many more who ran their teams effectively Altogether, it was…
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Posted Friday, July 17th, 2009
So much now rides on the month of July it’s almost not fair. With the NCAA making it more difficult every year for college coaches to get efficient time to evaluate prospects, July is now the only time of the year when kids, who don’t go to a high profile high school or prep school, can hope to catch the attention of college coaches. The consequence is that the kids burn themselves out playing practically every day this month. But…
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Posted Thursday, July 16th, 2009
WPI Completes Class Jameel Galloway, 6'7" forward from Boston College High School and Jaime Shannon, a 6'0" guard transfer from Brandeis University via Lowell High School are both headed to WPI next year where they’ll team with Worcester Academy’s Tony Dolphin to complete the incoming recruiting class. Galloway is an exceptional athlete with a good motor and Shannon is a quick point guard with a tight handle. Both are a perfect fit for WPI's pressure man-to-man defense and fast break…
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Posted Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
Matt Brown is going to be wearing Crimson next year. Northfield Mount Hermon’s 6’3” guard just became the first player to commit to Harvard head coach Tommy Amaker for the 2010-2011 recruiting class. Brown had interest from a variety of schools in more competitive athletic conferences, but decided that a degree from an institution such as Harvard was too much to pass up on. “It’s the number one university in the world,” he said. “You can’t turn down an offer…
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Posted Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
Those teams who were still in action on the 14th and the 15th were in one of three places for the most part: BABC was at the Nike Peach Jam Tournament; CBC, CT Select, and Lone Wolf at the Joe Brown Memorial; and New England Playaz, Expressions Elite 17’s, Connecticut Elite 17’s, Connecticut Gold, and MB Nation in West Virginia at the Triple S Harley Davidson Classic. Here’s a look at what we’re hearing from those three spots. • BABC…
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Posted Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
MB Nation is one of several New England teams to travel to West Virginia for the Hoop Group’s Triple S Harley Davidson Classic and on day one they sent shock waves through the sixteen-and-under field when they knocked off the New York Gauchos. The Nation wasn’t even supposed to be in the same pool as the Gauchos, but had their schedule changed upon arriving at the tournament. The Gauchos came into the game likely thinking they were in store for…
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Posted Monday, July 13th, 2009
Games of the Night Connecticut Select u16 vs. New York Panthers u16 – Fresh off their run to the finals of the Summer Classic East tournament a day earlier, the Panthers traveled to New England where they ran into the stone wall that was the Connecticut Select team. Select came into this game riding a wave of momentum after avenging an earlier season loss to 518 Hustle in their opening game. But the nightcap turned out to not be quite…
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