Posted Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
The first ten days of the live period was a busy time in New England. In fact, we would venture to say that 2009 set a record in terms of the amount of college coaches who traveled to New England in the month of July. It began of course with Hoop Mountain and their Super Week Camps, The Elite 75 Showcase brought all of the region’s top players together in front of roughly 50 coaches (40 from the division I… READ MORE >
Posted Monday, July 20th, 2009
Denzel Brito was a busy man during the first ten days of the July live period. In fact, he didn’t take a day off. From July 5th – 8th he was in Cincinnati with his New England Playaz team at the Adidas It Takes 5ive Classic. After catching a flight home on the night of the 8th, the Playaz practiced on the morning of the 9th and then headed over to the Elite 75 Showcase, where Brito made the all-star… READ MORE >
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… READ MORE >
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… READ MORE >
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… READ MORE >
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… READ MORE >
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… READ MORE >
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… READ MORE >
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… READ MORE >
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… READ MORE >