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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Posted Friday, January 1st, 2010
The final week of 2009 produced a number of notable performances as various holiday tournaments took place throughout all six New England states. Connecticut Player of the Week – Vic Anderson, New Leadership Prep: Anderson earned MVP honors at the fifth annual Queens Jam Christmas Classic over the weekend, finishing with 33 points, 7 assists, and 10 rebounds while making 6 of his 8 attempts from behind the three-point line. He followed that up with 30 points in a loss…
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Posted Thursday, December 31st, 2009
The primary function of the New England Recruiting Report is to look ahead. We look at what prospects are doing now and attempt to translate that into what they may do down the road in college. With the turn of the calendar, we are going to take this rare opportunity to look back at the year gone by and examine who the best teams, stock risers, and recruits really were. Best Prep School Team – Tilton School (New Hampshire): With…
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Posted Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
At this time last year the New England Recruiting Report offered some “predictions for the new year.” Among those predictions were our forecasts for the 27 New England and state titles that are crowned in our region each and every year. By the time last March rolled around, our prophecy skills had been proven fairly accurate as 16 of our projected 27 winners did in fact go on to claim their respective championships. So with that in mind, this year…
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Posted Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
The 2009 BABC Holiday Classic welcomed high school teams from four of New England’s six states to Chelsea High School over the last two days. Three divisions were comprised of four teams each as opening round games were played on Monday and final rounds on Tuesday. Scoreboard New England Division – Consolation Cambridge Rindge Latin 65 La Salle Academy 43The hometown Massachusetts team handled the visitors from Rhode Island with relative ease as Cambridge got 25 points from Ahmed Charles…
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Posted Monday, December 28th, 2009
When P.J. Santavenere made the decision to do a post-graduate year at Rise Academy he knew he was taking the road less traveled. Not only was he making the rare decision to leave the New England region, arguably the national hub of prep school basketball, but he was also choosing a post-graduate program that wasn’t necessarily a school at all. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Rise Academy “provides an advanced alternative to high school basketball” according to their website. Essentially, it…
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Posted Sunday, December 27th, 2009
The third annual Vanguard Big City Classic took place this weekend in New Haven, welcoming all four of the cities’ top high school programs in addition to four other top programs from across southern Connecticut. Here is a recap of the action: Kolbe Cathedral 81 Danbury 76 The all-time leading scorer in University of Connecticut men’s basketball history is off to an impressive start to his coaching career as Chris Smith’s Kolbe Cathedral team improved to 3-0 in his first…
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Posted Saturday, December 26th, 2009
Loomis Chaffee post-graduate John Nielsen has made a verbal commitment to attend St. Anselm’s College next year on a full basketball scholarship. Nielsen arrived at Loomis this fall after a tremendous two sport career at Port Jefferson High School in New York. As the quarterback of the football team, Nielsen earned All-Suffolk County honors while leading his team to a 6-3 record. But his biggest success always took place on the basketball court. The six-foot-two shooting guard led Port Jefferson…
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