Posted Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Northfield Mount Hermon scored perhaps the biggest win in the school’s history as they knocked off top ranked, and previously undefeated, Hargrave Military Academy in the semi-finals of the National Prep Championship 86-83. NMH opened a double digit lead early in the first and was able to keep the lead around that mark for the vast majority of the remainder of the half and the better part of the second. But as all great teams do, Hargrave would make a…
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Posted Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
NATIONAL PREP CHAMPIONSHIPS – Opening Round 1-HARGRAVE MILITARY ACADEMY 95 d. TILTON SCHOOL 82Mardracus Wade (Arkansas) had nine three-pointers in the first half and Hargrave took a 20-point lead into the half as they eventually held the edge throughout the second half and advanced to Wednesday action. Gerard Coleman (Providence) finished with 43 points (29 second half) for Tilton as they cut the lead to 10 in the final five minutes. Wade finished with 34 points and Lorenzo Brown (NC State) had…
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Posted Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Over 80 college coaches were on hand at Albertus Magnus College on Tuesday for the National Prep Championship quarterfinals. Virginia head coach Tony Bennett, George Mason head coach Jim Laranaga, Siena head coach Fran McCaffery, Hofstra head coach Tom Pecora, Drexel head coach Bruiser Flint, LaSalle head coach John Giannini, Fordham head coach Jared Grasso, Fairfield head coach Ed Cooley, Albany head coach Will Brown, New Hampshire head coach Bill Herrion, Central Connecticut head coach Howie Dickenman, and St. Francis head…
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Posted Monday, March 8th, 2010
The top eight prep school basketball teams in the country will come together over the next two days to crown a national champion for the fourth consecutive year. The championships made their debut in 2007 when Michael Beasley returned to his hometown of Washington D.C. to lead Notre Dame Prep to the first ever undisputed national championship. A year later Hargrave Military Academy went to New York and came out of a field that included Findlay College Prep and an…
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Posted Sunday, March 7th, 2010
The Kent School put the punctuation mark on a terrific season on Saturday by knocking off Wilbraham & Monson Academy 58-36 to take the championship of the Western New England League. Kent won the title on their home floor as they hosted the championship game by virtue of being the higher of the two seeds. They entered this week’s field as the second seed and knocked off #7 Avon Old Farms on Wednesday by a score of 78-69 and then…
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Posted Sunday, March 7th, 2010
Levy Gillespie, one of the top up and coming talents in the state of Connecticut, will be returning to this year’s New England Junior Elite 75 Showcase. Gillespie starred at last year’s showcase showing terrific playmaking ability and feel for the game beyond his years, and this year he promises to once again be among the top talents in the building. The 8th grade star is in the midst of a tremendous winter season, achieving success in a variety of…
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Posted Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Brewster Academy couldn’t have played much better to start the NEPSAC Class A final. They were defending, sharing the ball, making shots, going to the glass with reckless abandon and were consequently able to open up a 16 point lead. But never a team to give up, Winchendon would fight back. They cut the lead to 12 heading into halftime, 10 by the 12:00 minute mark, tied the score at 28 with five minutes to play, and finally took their…
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Posted Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Tilton took their third consecutive NEPSAC Class B title this afternoon with only one member of their “Big Three” still in a black and gold uniform. With Alex Oriakhi and Jamal Coombs-McDaniel now in their freshmen season at the University of Connecticut, Gerard Coleman returned to Tilton for his senior year ready to carry his team to a championship. But on championship Sunday, Tilton’s undisputed star got a big lift from his supporting class. While the Providence bound star scored…
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Posted Saturday, March 6th, 2010
The latest chapter in the Lawrence Academy/St. Mark’s rivalry belongs to Lawrence. After falling in last year’s semi-finals, Lawrence Academy recaptured the NEPSAC Class C title by knocking off last year’s defending champions. After the score was netted at 20 going into halftime, Shabazz Napier took over to start the second but not as you might expect. Known primarily for his ability to score the ball in a variety of different ways it was Napier’s ability to make plays with…
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Posted Friday, March 5th, 2010
As was first reported by the Cornell Basketball Blog, the Hotchkiss School’s Monty Brown has committed to Harvard University for next season. Brown’s twitter account confirmed the commitment with a February 14th post that read only, “Harvard Crimson class of 2014!”The six-foot-eleven Tulsa, Oklahoma native arrived at the Hotchkiss School for his junior season and has anchored the team in the middle ever since. In addition to Brown’s size, his other top assets include an impressive skill set with the…
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