Brand New Year for Ireland

Posted Saturday, October 10th, 2009

A lot can change in a year.  At this time last year Anthony Ireland was fighting to get on the Division I radar.  He didn’t have any scholarship offers at the time and was only hearing from local Connecticut schools.  Fast forward a year and Ireland is one of the region’s most heavily recruited point guards.  “Two things really happened,” Ireland said.  “First, I just worked hard on my game in the last year and second the exposure I got… READ MORE >

Prep Profile – Notre Dame Prep

Posted Friday, October 9th, 2009

The first thing that jumps out at you when you visit Notre Dame Prep for an open run is how hard the players are going at each other.  Each and every one of them is giving 100%, because they know if they don’t there is a better than average chance that head coach Ryan Hurd will kick them off the court before they have a chance to play the game out.  And while effort and intensity are clearly the central… READ MORE >

CT Top 50 Invitational – Event Recap

Posted Thursday, October 8th, 2009

HSBI’s Tom Konchalski, the New England Recruiting Report, and a good number of college coaches were all on hand Wednesday night for the first of two nights of action at the annual Connecticut Top 50 Invitational.  Physical Dominance Two guys who stood out in comparison to the rest of the field by virtue of their physical dominance were Stratford’s Brandon Sherrod and Christian Heritage’s Jason Perrier.  Sherrod controlled the paint at both ends of the floor, ripping rebounds out of… READ MORE >

O’Shea Makes Surprise Pick

Posted Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

When the New England Recruiting Report spoke with Joe OShea in late August, the Burlington High School star had cut his list down to four and was scheduling visits with Brown, Princeton, Vermont, and Yale.  But things have changed in the last six weeks and on Thursday O’Shea made a verbal commitment to Holy Cross.  “Some stuff changed with my recruiting and I decided to look at Holy Cross because they are a very good school academically and they give… READ MORE >

Odom Makes Pick

Posted Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Middlesex senior Rod Odom made a verbal commitment to the University of Arizona early Wednesday evening, ending what had been a long and hotly contested recruitment.  Odom selected the Wildcats over West Virginia, Boston College, Vanberbilt, and Harvard.  And although Sean Miller is still yet to coach a game as the head coach at the University of Arizona, he and his assistant, Emmanuel “Book” Richardson, have been recruiting Odom for quite some time now.  “I think the fact that they… READ MORE >

Prep Profile – Brewster Academy

Posted Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

In Jason Smith’s ten years as the head basketball coach at Brewster Academy he has transformed the program from one that was barely on the national radar to one of the perennial national powerhouses.  The Brewster Academy program has reached its pinnacle in the last two years with a NEPSAC Class A championship in 2008 and two straight trips to the National Prep Championship Final Four in 2008 and 2009.  All indications are that it will be more of the… READ MORE >

National Prep Showcase Schedule Announced

Posted Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

The National Prep Showcase, one of the nation’s premier prep school events of the entire year, has announced the schedule for next month’s event which will be held at Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, Connecticut from November 20th to 22nd.  Once again the event features all of the top prep school teams in the country including 2007 National Champions Notre Dame Prep, 2008 National Champions Hargrave Military Academy, and 2009 National Champions Tilton School.  Additionally, all of the very… READ MORE >

Introducing Jesse Morgan

Posted Monday, October 5th, 2009

Year in and year out the South Kent School assembles a roster filled with incredible talent.  This year the most notable name on the Cardinal roster may be J.J. Moore, a New York product who has already picked up scholarship offers from virtually everyone in the Big East. But Moore’s running mate at South Kent is a guy by the name of Jesse Morgan, a versatile six-foot-four guard who is quickly developing a reputation of his own.  Morgan and South… READ MORE >

Harold Heading Home

Posted Sunday, October 4th, 2009

Northfield Mount Hermon’s senior swingman Hector Harold made a verbal commitment to Pepperdine University on Monday morning.  Harold visited the campus in late September, and after having spent the last two weeks thinking it over, decided to pull the trigger on the WCC school.  “It’s 45 minutes away from my house, it’s in L.A., the coaching staff is real hungry, they have a good young team, they’re a program working their way back up to the top of the WCC,… READ MORE >

NHIAA’s Best - 2010

Posted Sunday, October 4th, 2009

The NH public High Schools sometimes get a bad rap when it comes to basketball. The perception is that the game speed is slower and the players are less athletic than in other states. But don’t sleep on the Granite State. This spring and summer we learned that NH kids can play with anyone based on the play of the Granite Sate Jayhawks and Mass Rivals, whose teams had a number of NH players. There have also been a number… READ MORE >

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