Posted Friday, January 8th, 2010
When Tyler Olander began his 2009-2010 academic year, he envisioned competing in arguably the most talented league in the country, adjusting to boarding life, and juggling academics and basketball. Five months later, his plans have not panned out as he envisioned, but that hasn’t stopped his drive and passion for the game. The highly sought after step-out power forward began the year at Worcester Academy, a Class A program in the New England Prep School Athletic Conference (NEPSAC), as a reclassified…
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Posted Friday, January 8th, 2010
The University of Connecticut got their most significant commitment of the year on Friday when Roscoe Smith picked the Huskies over Duke, Georgetown, West Virginia, and UCLA. Smith is a six-foot-eight small forward from Baltimore, Maryland who currently plays his high school basketball at Oak Hill Academy in Virginia, one of the nation’s most prestigious schools which has also produced NBA players like Carmelo Anthony, Brandon Jennings, Josh Smith, Rajon Rondo, and Jerry Stackhouse. UConn head coach JimCalhoun has longstanding…
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Posted Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Massachusetts was the talk of New England in week one of 2010 as they produced a number of top performances. Here is a look at who shined over the last seven days. Massachusetts Players(s) of the WeekWe recently came across some incredible performances from last week that we didn’t get wind of before publishing our Notable Performers of January 1st, and while we are not in the habit of going backwards, these two performances were too dominant to ignore. Robbie…
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Posted Thursday, January 7th, 2010
It should come as no surprise that Joe OShea remains the top ranked player in Vermont. The Green Mountain State lacks the prep school presence of the other five New England states and O’Shea has been arguably the top college prospect in the public school leagues for several years now. O’Shea signed his National Letter of Intent this fall with Holy Cross, a perennial powerhouse in the Patriot League. The six-foot-four guard figures to be the perfect fit in first…
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Posted Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
St. Andrew’s Youri Dascy is the top ranked player in Rhode Island’s class of 2010. The six-foot-seven center has opened the season in peak form as he has helped the Saints get off to one of their best starts in years. Dascy is a physically dominant player who provides a capable scoring presence on the low post, a valuable interior defender, and a very good rebounder. He has had a wide variety of recruitment from scholarship level schools and is…
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Posted Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Of all the states in New England, New Hampshire is the one whose rankings are most overrun by prep school products. The reason is twofold. First with powerhouse programs like Brewster Academy, New Hampton, Tilton, Phillips Exeter, Proctor, and Holderness, the state welcomes a plethora of new talent to its borders every year. Secondly, those same schools also attract a lot of local talent away from the public school leagues. Of the top 30 ranked players in New Hampshire’s Class…
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Posted Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
Despite the influx of talent to prep schools like Winchendon, Notre Dame Prep, Northfield Mount Hermon, Worcester Academy, and others, the top three prospects in the state of Massachusetts have not changed as Nate Lubick, Carson Desrosiers, and Rod Odom retain those positions. Georgetown bound forward Nate Lubick remains in the top spot. While St. Mark’s hasn’t necessarily had the start to the season that they hoped for, Lubick proved all he needed to this past summer. Each and every…
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Posted Monday, January 4th, 2010
Future UMass Minuteman Maxie Esho has been up and down thus far this season for Lee Academy, but he has still shown enough to remain the highest ranked prospect in the state of Maine. Consistency has been Esho’s biggest challenge this year as he will show flashes of his extraordinary potential for stretches at a time only to disappear at others. Nonetheless, the six-foot-seven forward undoubtedly has all the talent to develop into a successful player in the Atlantic 10. …
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Posted Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
Today marks the beginning of a ten day period where we will update rankings in all classes and states within New England. We will begin that process in the class of 2010 and first up is the state of Connecticut where J.J. Moore, a post-graduate at the South Kent School is the new top ranked player in the state. The Pittsburgh commit is a freakish athlete with a rapidly evolving skill set that now allows him to bury threes and…
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Posted Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
Each and every year a new set of players manage to distinguish themselves in the eyes of evaluators and college coaches, consequently seeing their recruiting get a major bump. In 2009 guys like Billy Baron, Ricardo Ledo, Dennis Clifford, Steven Glowiak, Chris Fitzgerald, Kaleb Tarczewski, Melsahn Basabe, Anthony Ireland, Isaiah Salafia, Shabazz Napier, Michael Carter-Williams, Marcus Grant, and Zach Auguste are all going out with a lot more hype than they had going in. Looking forward to the coming year,…
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