Posted Wednesday, August 21st, 2013
It wasn’t even a week ago that Mike Leblanc solidified his visit schedule by planning trips to Princeton, Yale, Rice, and Brown. A few days later, with still three weeks before his first scheduled trip, Leblanc had a change of heart and decided no visits were necessary, and so he made a verbal commitment to Princeton. "Princeton stood out to me, first off, because I loved the atmosphere there from my two [unofficial] visits," Leblance told the New England Recruiting…
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Posted Wednesday, August 21st, 2013
The 2013-2014 season is almost upon us and with fall workouts set to begin in just a matter of weeks, it is time to take a look at the local products that will be changing addresses in the prep ranks this year. Below is a cumulative list of players from the NERR database that are either transferring into the prep school ranks or transferring within the prep school ranks. A * indicates a prospect who is changing years, either via…
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Posted Tuesday, August 20th, 2013
Shooting Touch has released their schedule for what promises to be a busy four months of basketball as they round out the 2013 year. On September 13th, the 2nd Annual Shooting Touch Sports Conference comes to Boston, bringing high level sports executives from around the country to share their advice on how to break into the sports industry. Representatives from Nike, Celtics, Adidas, Vitamin Water, SLAM, Red Sox, Patriots, Reebok, Comcast and many more make this a day not to…
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Posted Monday, August 19th, 2013
Goodluck Okonoboh cut his list to just five schools on Tuesday afternoon – Florida, Duke, UNLV, Indiana, and Ohio State (in no particular order). Florida, Duke, and Indiana were all widely expected to make his final list after all three had been very publicly involved in his recruiting to date. Ohio State and UNLV were more of a surprise, but both have made a hard push in recent weeks. The news comes just as Okonoboh prepares for this weekend’s Elite…
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Posted Monday, August 19th, 2013
New Hampton forward Mike Leblanc is coming off a very successful summer with the Rhode Island Hawks and is now seeing his recruitment go to a higher level as a result. Leblanc came into the summer with scholarship offers from New Hampshire, Brown, and Binghamton but has since added additional offers from Princeton, Vermont, Yale, and most recently, Rice University, a top academic school that competes in Conference USA. While the combination of academics and athletics is the obvious common…
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Posted Sunday, August 18th, 2013
Bunnell High School senior swingman Isaac Vann earned a scholarship offer on Sunday from Canisius according to USAD head coach Troy Bradford. The MAAC school becomes the second program to offer Vann, joining Sacred Heart, who also offered Vann’s USAD running mate, incoming South Kent point guard Schadrac Casimir.Vann’s summer began at the New England Elite 75 Showcase, where his long and smooth floor game was on full display. It was off to the Hoop Group Elite Camp for the…
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Posted Saturday, August 17th, 2013
Cushing Academy and Mass Rivals point guard Kaleb Joseph made a verbal commitment to Syracuse on Saturday while on their campus for his official visit. Joseph had previously cut his list to Syracuse, Providence, and West Virginia, after initially accumulating numerous other high-major offers. A top ten point guard in the country according to ESPN.com, Syracuse made Joseph their top priority at the position all summer long, following him from Indianapolis to King of Prussia to Las Vegas. Joseph joins…
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Posted Friday, August 16th, 2013
Angel Delgado was a relative unknown during his lone season in New England. A product of Redemption Christian Academy, a school that was transitioning their campus from Troy, New York to Northfield, Massachusetts, Delgado and his teammates literally split time between the two campuses last year. When he did play in New England, he showed signs of what many have come to know this spring and summer, that he is one of the top big men, and specifically one of…
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Posted Thursday, August 15th, 2013
While the recruiting news tends to slow down little by little in the weeks that follow the July evaluation period, there was still plenty of action this week. Here is a look at some of the headlines:• Kimball Union Academy and Expressions Elite 2014 forward Abdul-Malik Abu visited three of his final four schools this week. After attending the Providence Elite Camp on Saturday, Abu took an unofficial visit to North Carolina State on Sunday. He was initially scheduled to…
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Posted Wednesday, August 14th, 2013
Longtime local high school and AAU coach Jim Black is planning his annual “Aspire to Inspire” coaches clinic in Rhode Island. This year’s event will take place on Saturday, August 24th at Saint Raphael Academy. Speakers will include: Holy Cross director of operations Alex Popp; Rhode Island assistant coach Preston Murphy; Brown assistant coach T.J. Sorrentine; St. Andrew’s head coach Mike Hart; Assumption head coach Matt Mahar; Rhode Island women’s assistant coach Marcus Reilly; and former USC, Arizona, and NBA…
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