Posted Sunday, April 21st, 2013
This weekend Wesleyan University hosted their annual Basketbull event that saw top teams from all over the northeast region come to Middletown, Connecticut to compete for a championship. By the end of Sunday, due to NCAA Live Period rules not permitting teams to play more than three games in a day, the 17u bracket saw two champions be crowned, CBC and the New Jersey Pirates. In the first championship game, the New Jersey Pirates defeat a scrappy Newburg Zion…
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Posted Saturday, April 20th, 2013
The Pittsburgh Jam Fest was one of the biggest tournaments in the nation this weekend, hosting hundreds of players and teams. Here are a couple of observations after a few days in the steel city:1. Donovan Mitchell is for RealThe Canterbury School sophomore runs with The City, an Under Armour sponsored program that won AAU’s 9th grade national championship last summer. This weekend, Donovan showed why he is one of the top young prospects in New England, leading The City…
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Posted Friday, April 19th, 2013
Missouri had been looking for a point guard ever since New Hampton's Travis Jorgenson opted to re-open his recruitment this fall. That search became even more of a priority last week when junior starter Phil Pressey announced his plan to declare for the NBA Draft. Ironically, the spot created by one prospect's de-commitment has been filled by another prospect who came available only after decommitting himself. Shane Rector made a verbal commitment to Rutgers earlier this winter with the…
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Posted Friday, April 19th, 2013
Northfield Mount Hermon post-graduate forward Josh Hearlihy brought his recruitment to an end on Friday afternoon with a commitment to Tulane. Hearlihy was one of the best remaining prospects left on the board. He had taken official visits to George Washington and Santa Clara, as well as Tulane, since the end of the prep school season, and had an upcoming trip scheduled to Davidson. “Tulane had every aspect of what I was looking for,” Hearlihy told the New England Recruiting…
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Posted Thursday, April 18th, 2013
The New England Recruiting Report is excited to announce the debut of NERR-TV, a collaborative project with Cox Sports. NERR and Cox Sports have teamed up in recent years to bring you an unprecedented quality and volume of video coverage ranging throughout all twelve months of the year while covering local basketball and recruiting on the high school, prep school, and grassroots levels. Moving forward, NERR-TV will raise that bar by bringing television quality coverage to you free of charge…
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Posted Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
Lee Academy post-graduate Rashad Andrews committed to Southern University on Wednesday, the first day of the late signing period. Southern University is a division I university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The Jaguars won the SWAC tournament this March, advancing to the NCAA tournament where they fell to top seeded Gonzaga in first round. Andrews came to Lee Academy from Boys and Girls High School in New York where he was previously committed to division II Adelphi. He had also previously…
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Posted Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
There was never any question about which coach Daquein McNeil wanted to play for in college. He committed to head coach Richard Pitino and Florida International back in the fall after being recruited hard by both Pitino and assistant coach Kimani Young. With Pitino recently being named the new head coach at Minnesota, and Young set to join him, there was no doubt that McNeil would want to follow suit. On Tuesday, after FIU had officially hired Pitino’s replacement, former…
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Posted Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
Notre Dame Prep has seen two prospects come off the board in the last few days, both of whom are products of the greater Baltimore region. Jamel Artis, who starred for Nike Baltimore Elite on the AAU and EYBL circuits, made a verbal commitment to Pittsburgh over the weekend. The Panthers had been actively recruiting Artis all season long, and at last month’s National Prep Championship he stated that they were atop his list. Artis is a wide-bodied six-foot-six forward…
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Posted Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
On Sunday, April 28th four of the worlds best basketball coaches will come to Suffield Academy for the First Annual New England Coaches Clinic. Naismith Hall of Fame coach Bob Hurley Sr. of St. Anthony High School in New Jersey, USA Developmental National Team coach Don Showalter of Iowa City High School in Iowa, 2013 National Championship coach Dave Hixon of Amherst College, and 5-Time National Team coach and International Expert Terry Layton of Nike will be teaching throughout the…
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Posted Monday, April 15th, 2013
The arrival of bracket play at NEHF 2013 came with an elevated level of competition and talent explosion in Sunday’s round of games, complete with wire-to-wire finishes, on-paper upsets, and a myriad of rise-to-the-occasion individual performances from elite-caliber prospects looking to put their respective stamps on the northeast’s unofficial kick off to this year’s grassroots season. Here’s a brief capsule of how each final played out as well as players that distinguished themselves with standout performances amongst a who’s who…
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